“You sick bastard,” she said.
“Yes, I guess you could call me that." Terry replied.”
Source: Everyday Psychopaths
“To kill for fun is the job of the psychopaths! And what is a matador, apart from being a mentally ill person?”
“Fact: Psychopaths are six times more likely than other criminals to commit new crimes following release from prison.”
Source: The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscience
“Cleckley reported that psychopaths never experience grief, honesty, deep joy, or genuine despair. From my own experience, I would add to Cleckley’s observations that the psychopath never ruminates on anything.
Rumination is a process that often contributes to depression and in extreme forms to obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The process of rumination is often associated with some anxiety or subjective feeling of concern or worry, and this can help precipitate change in the individual in order to reduce the anxiety.
The psychopath experiences none of this.
Indeed, if you ask a psychopath if he has ever worried about whether he left the house with the stove on (a common problem among those with obsessive-compulsive disorder), he will look at you like you are an alien, in stunned disbelief.”
Source: The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscience
“Джон Маултон, один из самых успешных венчурных капиталистов в Лондоне. В своем последнем интервью газете Financial Times он назвал решительность, любопытство и бесчувственность тремя самыми ценными качествами характера. Трудно оспаривать ценность первых двух. Но бесчувственность? Маултон объясняет: «Самое лучшее в бесчувственности то, что она позволяет вам спать, когда другие не могут сомкнуть глаз»”
Source: The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
“Deneyime Açıklık, Sorumluluk, Dışadönüklük, Uyumluluk ve Nevrotiklik özelliklerinin insanoğlunun kişilik genomunu oluşturan beş temel özellik olduğu konusunda günümüzde bir fikir birliği bulunuyor. Siz de kendi gen koordinatlarınızı belirlemek isterseniz, Büyük Beşli kişilik testinin sadeleştirilmiş bir halini wisdomofpsychopaths.co.uk adresinde bulabilirsiniz.”
Source: The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
“We find people of value,' she said, speaking like a teacher addressing a small child, 'and we determine what story they need to hear. It's the story that they're already telling themselves, don't you see? It's the nightmare they believe in. Once you understand that nightmare, you join them in it. Their fear becomes your fear. It's all a shared experience then. And once you have that, once they feel that is the truth, all the way down to their core, then your coping strategy becomes theirs. It's a natural progression. This is the power of a shared narrative. Of the echo chamber.”
Source: Rise the Dark
“I believe we are more ready to embrace our lives in the here and now when we are able to recognize the continuity between the immanence of God in our world and eternity. Rather than simply waiting to be liberated to another time or place, we are being invited to collaborate in the healing and redemption of our world.”
Source: Soul Graffiti: Making a Life in the Way of Jesus
“A theory is nothing but a tool to know the reality. If a theory contradicts reality, it must be discarded at the earliest.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“It openly contradicts if you endorse the rights of freedom of others while you do not give the rights of freedom to the subjects, those are within your responsibilities.”