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“We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank and open our behaviour we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.”

“Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.”

Giving Feelings Action Belief Realizing Levels Results Psychology Personality Needed Behaviour Our Actions Cybernetics Psycho Cybernetics

Author:Maxwell Maltz

“All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.”

Believe Reason Results Brain Psychology Magic Activity Behave No Reason Behaviour Cognitive Science

Author:Steven Pinker

“A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.”

Ifs Action Motivation Moral Psychology Theory Ethics Behaviour Defective

Book:The Possibility of Altruism

Source: The Possibility of Altruism

“Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.”

Men Humans Children Consciousness Psychology Patterns Unconscious Ancestor Possessed Behaviour Psychics Adapted

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.”

Character Games Study Psychology Fashion Opponents Behaviour Temperament Thorough

Book:200 Open Games

Source: 200 Open Games

“Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.”

Inspiration Motivation Psychology Becoming Fake Behaviour Self Transformation Body Language Nonverbal

Book:Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

Source: Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

“Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.”

Philosophy Peace Freedom Psychology Behavior Behaviour Statism Dysfunction Dysfunctional Families

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“You only see what I choose to show you.”

People Psychology Behaviour

Author:Jessica Bell