Regression Quotes

• Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.

  Alice Miller

  Infancy Is, Adults, Able

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• But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression

  Hjalmar Branting

  Years, May, Comeback

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• Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.

  Florence King

  Christian, Kings, Cheer

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.33, Macmillan

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• It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Views, Progress, Mark

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.677, Penguin

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• Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.

  Noel Gallagher

  Progression, Sideways, Backwards

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• Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Skills, Achievement

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• When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started.

  Henri Nouwen

  Despair, Return, Lost

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• Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression

  Gilles Deleuze

  Fashion, Men, Oedipus

  Gilles Deleuze, FeÌl?ix Guattari (2004). “Anti-Oedipus”, p.118, A&C Black

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• There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.

  Charlie Munger

  Mean, Bounds

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• Basically, there can only be two answers. One is to overcome separateness and find unity by regression to the state of unity which existed before awareness ever arose, that is, before man was born. The other answer is to be fully born, to develop one's awareness, one's reason, one's capacity to love to such a point that one transcends one's own egocentric involvement, and arrives at a new harmony, at a new oneness with the world.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Capacity To Love, Two

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into barbarism" mean to our lofty European civilization? Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. A look around us at this moment shows what the regression of bourgeois society into barbarism means. This world war is a regression into barbarism. The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilization.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  War, Mean, Civilization

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• Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

  Charlie Munger

  Mean, Mimicking, Herds

  "Here's a 10 point plan to invest like Charlie Munger" by John Szramiak, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2016.

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• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.

  John Cleese

  Horse, Data, Water

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• The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression. The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration. The Right Person in the Wrong Place = Confusion. The Right Person in the Right Place = Progression. The Right People in the Right Places = Multiplication.

  John C. Maxwell

  Teamwork, Frustration, People

  John C. Maxwell (2008). “Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)”, p.37, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative silence blurs and confuses our identity, and we lapse into daydreams or diffuse anxieties. Positive silence pulls us together and makes us realize who we are, who we might be, and the distance between these two.

  Thomas Merton

  Distance, Loss, Discovery

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.45, Macmillan

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• I really did Regression to work with Alejandro [Amenabar]. I found him very interesting. His movie, The Others, is one of the better scary movies of the last period of time.

  Ethan Hawke

  Interesting, Scary, Lasts

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression" by Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of degree, as no society is a pure partnership or domination system) has been fiercely resisted and countered by periodic regressions. So domination systems have rebuilt themselves in different forms - be they secular or religious, eastern or western, leftist or rightist.

  Riane Eisler

  Religious, Degrees, Different

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Those who act on excitement act intermittently; this is hardly the way to avoid regression. Those whose understanding comes from emotional perceptions are as confused as they are enlightened; this is not a lamp that is constantly bright.

  Zicheng Hong

  Confused, Emotional, Understanding

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• Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Thinking, Progress, Slavery

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• A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a small child deals with a new challenge (for instance, learning to walk) has certain predictable stages: regression, anxiety, mastery, new energy, growth, and feedback for future achievement. These stages can also be seen in adults coping with new life events, whether positive or negative.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Children, Mirrors, Achievement

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• The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in the genetic constitution of species, must cause this zone to be crossed and perhaps recrossed relatively rapidly in the course of evolutionary change, so that many possible gene substitutions may have a fluctuating history of advance and regression before the final balance of selective advantage is determined.

  Ronald Fisher

  Zero, Science, Balance

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• We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

  Alan Watts

  Decision, Doe, Our Actions

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.

  Abraham Maslow

  Maturity, Safety, Choices

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in the world today than there was one thousand years ago. One might arguably suggest that the opposite is true. I seek to paint no idyll of the worlds before historical capitalism. They were worlds of little liberty, little equality, and little fraternity. The only question is whether historical capitalism represented progress in these regards, or regression.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Mean, Self, Years

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.100, Verso

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• Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.

  Adolf Hitler

  Laughter, Joy, Victory

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Table talk, 1941-1944”

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