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“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”

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Book:Major Works

Source: Major Works

“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”

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Author:Sigmund Freud

“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.”

Writing Wisdom Fall Psychology Wise Color Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Endure Lovely Colour Temples Empires Fades Fading Right Words Crumbling

Author:Edward Thorndike

“Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.”

Problem Wisdom Fall Simple Mistake Psychology Errors Simplicity Versions Experts Making Mistakes Sophisticated We All Make Mistakes Layman

Author:Amos Tversky

“When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent that physical ability and personal decorum allowed. In that airborne instant Mr. Halsman clicked the shutter. He called his method jumpology. The idea of having people jump for the camera can seem like a gimmick, but it is telling that jumpology shares a few syllables with psychology. As Halsman, who died in 1979, said, 'When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping, and the mask falls, so that the real person appears.'”

“Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.”

Love Eye Fall Psychology Falling In Love Closed Eyes

Author:Rumi

“Just remember, without discipline, a clear strategy, and a concise plan, the speculator will fall into all the emotional pitfalls of the market - jump from one stock to another, hold a losing position too long, and cut out of a winner too soon, for no reason other than fear of losing profit. Greed, Fear, Impatience, Ignorance, and Hope will all fight for mental dominance over the speculator. Then, after a few failures and catastrophes the speculator may become demoralised, depressed, despondent, and abandon the market and the chance to make a fortune from what the market has to offer.”

“Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.”

Reality Seems Fall Sports Psychology Sports Psychology

Author:Lou Holtz

“Every winner needs to master three essential components of trading; a sound individual psychology, a logical trading system and good money management. These essentials are like three legs of a stool – remove one and the stool will fall, together with the person who sits on it.”

Source: Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management