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• It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Spiritual, Mean, People

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• Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

  David Elkind

  Inspirational, Teenager, Choices

  David Elkind (1994). “Parenting Your Teenager”

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• Thought is action in rehearsal.

  William Zinsser

  Positive, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

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• Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Business, Yield, Investing

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• The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

  Stanislav Grof

  Creative, Energy, Revision

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• SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single question measures any bit of knowledge that anyone might actually need in the real world. We should applaud kids for getting lower scores.

  Dave Barry

  Wisdom, Real, Kids

  Dave Barry (2001). “My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old and Other Thoug”, p.37, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of psychology we take a view of learning as a reconstruction rather than as a transmission of knowledge. Then we extend the idea of manipulative materials to the idea that learning is most effective when part of an activity the learner experiences as constructing a meaningful product.

  Seymour Papert

  Meaningful, Views, Ideas

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• All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.

  John Ralston Saul

  Acceptance, Years, Taught Us

  John Ralston Saul (1997). “Reflections of a Siamese twin: Canada at the end of the twentieth century”, Viking Adult

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• The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

  Basil Bunting

  Confusion, Confusing, Trying

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• Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing was  expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he declared: “The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.”

  Edwin Lefevre

  New York, Mistake, Successful

  Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.388, Lulu Press, Inc

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• This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history, anthropology, medicine, and psychology. The Blind Spot breaks new ground, and represents a major step forward in the philosophy of science. The book is also a page-turner, which is rare for this topic.

  Joseph Auslander

  Philosophy, Book, Blind Spots

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• There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Running, Dream, Men

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• Psychology motivates the quality of analysis and puts it to use. Psychology is the driver and analysis is the road map.

  Ed Seykota

  Quality, Analysis, Use

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• Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, Psychiatry, Child Psychology

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• If I wasn't doing modeling, I'd like to study child psychology.

  Shanina Shaik

  Children, Study, Modeling

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• I'm conscious of race whenever I'm writing, just as I'm conscious of class, religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up the human experience. I don't think I can do a good job if I'm not paying attention to what's meaningful to people, and in American culture, there isn't anything that informs human interaction more than the idea of race.

  Dwayne McDuffie

  Meaningful, Jobs, Writing

  "Race, Sci-Fi, and Comics: A Talk with Dwayne McDuffie". Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.theatlantic.com. March 5, 2010.

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• We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). WE can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail-period!

  Carl T. Rowan

  Home, Gun, Law

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• Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think the opposite of what you believe, and that tricks them into doing something stupid. Works like a charm.

  Steve Carell

  Stupid, Believe, Thinking

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• All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long circle back toward their former coherence. Whether they can arrive before the natural world is damaged beyond repair and madness destroys humanity, we cannot tell.

  Paul Shepard

  Art, Philosophy, Exercise

  Paul Shepard (2013). “Coming Home to the Pleistocene”, p.170, Island Press

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• According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Attachment, Trouble

  Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2007). “How to See Yourself As You Really Are”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

  Lee Westwood

  Smile, Golf, People

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• Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Makeup, Hair, Interesting

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• A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain

  Gabor Mate

  Hurt, Stress, Addiction

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• The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

  Celia Green

  Race, Humans, Ifs

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• Wise, compassionate and accessible, David Benner's The Gift of Being Yourself is truly a gift to the dedicated seeker. The author draws on his professional experience as a psychologist and his own lifelong vocation as a Christian. The result is a book that felicitously weaves together the insights of psychology and Christian spirituality.

  Margaret Guenther

  Christian, Wise, Being Yourself

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