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“I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.”

Ifs Want Feels Found Healthy Opposites Tendencies Helpful Counterproductive

Author:Dean Ornish

“The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.”

“I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.”

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

“We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.”

People Thinking World Facts Dies Views Effort Opposites Prejudice Tendencies Conform

Book:Mortals and Others

Source: Mortals and Others

“The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.”

Reason Artist Special Elements Perception Opposites Impression Objectives Tendencies

Book:An Outline of Philosophy

Source: An Outline of Philosophy

“sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.”

Children Sometimes Parent Virtue Produce Opposites Faults Tendencies

Book:Works

Source: Works

“I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.”

Firsts Use Courses Powerful Break Conscious Discovery Built Opposites Performances Extremes Tendencies Characteristics Unconscious Phenomenon Break Through Emergence

Book:Psychological Types

Source: Psychological Types

“I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private lives; or they become very angry and even more politicized, and radicalized. Both trends are troublesome.”

People Feels Two Interest Loses Opposites Angry Tendencies Trends Retreat Private Life Troublesome Turkish Demoralized Two Opposites Interest In Politics

Author:Elif Safak

“When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.”

Love Mind Humans Persons Feelings Courses Kindness Opposites And Love Tendencies Human Mind Manifest Depressing Harsh

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.