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“A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.”

Knows Men Passion Found Goal Psychology Limits Horse Like Me Tyrants Hobbies Consuming Neurosis Beckoning

Book:The Origins of Psychoanalysis: Letters, Drafts and Notes to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1902

Source: The Origins of Psychoanalysis: Letters, Drafts and Notes to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1902

“I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating to note what turns them on. There are wives who can cascade over a late husband or a burned dinner, and equally pour tears of joy over a new bonnet or a renovated bathroom.... A while ago I took a ship back from Europe. Amid the tumbling confetti ... I found myself misty-eyed watching a young lady waving a tearful farewell to her boyfriend on the dock. I couldn't figure out if I was crying at her plight, or in delight that he wasn't coming along with us.”

“Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.”

People Found Social Interest Loses Psychology Rewards Social Psychology

Book:The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and

Source: The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and

“When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to have finagled their data, as in that ludicrous "hockey stick" graph, pretending to prove that the world had suddenly become much hotter than at any time in 1,000 years. Any theory needing to rely so consistently on fudging the evidence, I concluded, must be looked on not as science at all, but as simply a rather alarming case study in the aberrations of group psychology.”

“I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.”

Humans Ideas Found Psychology Contemporary Human Life Emptiness

Author:James Hillman

“I spoke to Geoff Johns a lot. We went back and forth, and found a way to bring up the best qualities in his personality and psychology and also fill a niche in Gotham that we've never seen. It became about is there a way to really plant this hero in Gotham and say this is someone you haven't seen before - both in terms of who they are as a person and who they are as a hero.”

Way Persons Found Term Quality Psychology Havens Personality Hero Plant Spokes Back And Forth Niche Gotham

Author:Scott Snyder

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”

Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

“The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the purpose of my story, she should have it with her. I sat on my dad's bed and flipped through page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black-and-white photo which if it were used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful.”

Source: A Complicated Kindness: A Novel

“In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.”

Knows Soul Matter Science Found Force Knowledge Psychology Imagine Percent Physics Astronomy Nine Atoms Sensible Composition Ninety Streaks Indivisible Ninety Nine

Book:Lincoln Steffens speaking

Source: Lincoln Steffens speaking

“In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes, and the influence of strong and extraordinary stimuli. In man precisely similar conditions constitute the usual causes of nervous and psychic disturbances. Different conditions productive of extreme excitation, such as intense grief or bitter insults, often lead, when the natural reactions are inhibited by the necessary restraint, to profound and prolonged loss of balance in nervous and psychic activity.”

“As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.”

Believe Looks Long Past Purpose Found Belief Answers Psychology Solutions Ideals Clouds Fulfillment Belief In Self Positive Psychology Above The Clouds

Author:Erich Fromm

“Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.”

People Thinking May Stills Reality Found Psychology Skills Illusion Handle Optimistic Jury Benign Positive Psychology

Author:Martin Seligman

“We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). WE can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail-period!”

Home Law Found Can Do Psychology Periods Gun Possession Defense Passing Passings Jail Officers Reverse Handguns

Author:Carl T. Rowan

“Study the behavior of animals and you will understand human psychology and sociology. Study a flower excited under sunlight, and you will understand how all living things respond to light. The Almighty has provided everything in nature. Observe nature and you will grow. The cures of all illnesses are found in nature in the shapes of the body parts they were created to cure.”

Humans Body Light Found Grows Animal Study Psychology Flower Shapes Behavior Illness Excited Cures Sunlight Almighty Sociology Living Things

Author:Suzy Kassem