“Interesting survey in the current Journal of Abnormal Psychology: New York City has a higher percentage of people you shouldn't make any sudden moves around than any other city in the world.” PeopleWorldHumorFunnyMovingInterestingCitiesPsychologyNew YorkHigherCurrentsNew York CityJournalPercentagesSurveysAbnormalCities In The WorldAbnormal Psychology Book:Late night with David Letterman: the book Source: Late night with David Letterman: the book
“The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.” StatesFeelingsIndividualGoalPsychologyMovementTheoryHigherStrongerStrivePsychologicalSignificanceYearningCompensationInferiorityPersonal Power Author:Alfred Adler
“With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.” GivingTryingYearsTwoCountryPsychologyHigherThousandStandardsMadProfoundDecadesLustShockAfghanistanThousand YearsAsiaImperialismExpandingJerkStandards Of LivingUniformityHigher Standards Book:Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle Source: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
“One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.” IfsReasonUseTurnsEnergyForceCreativityPowerCreativePsychologyTalentPossibilityHigherDiseasePoisonWickedDestructiveLazinessSheerGiftedPsychicsInactionDiagnosisNeurosisPsychoticCreative PowerCreativenessInactivityGiftedness Author:Marie-Louise von Franz
“Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.” MadeProblemLevelsViewsPsychologyHigherPoint Of ViewTransitionJudgedEpistemology Author:Jean Piaget
“Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.” WorldWholeHelpingViewsFictionClassPsychologyStudentsHigherEconomicsScience FictionTheatreNew WorldMediocrePursuedHigher EducationWorld View Author:Vir Das
“Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position.” GamesPsychologyPositionHigherPsychologicalTournamentsParticipantsSusceptibility Author:Mikhail Tal
“In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.” IfsMayActionAnimalCasesPsychologyHigherExerciseScalesPsychologicalOutcomesFaculty Author:C. Lloyd Morgan