“We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.” WorldFeelsImportantTodayNextPsychologyImpossiblePolicyDevelopmentCitizensOrdinaryComplexesMathPhysicsAstronomyAbstractDependentRelevanceClassical MusicLive For TodayPublic PolicyOrdinary CitizensActual Life Author:David Foster Wallace
“In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.” KnowsMindArtStatesRememberNextInterestAttentionStepsTeachPsychologyTeachingSubjectsDyingObjectsConnectionsCuriosityOccasionsPupilsNext StepsDevouringTeaching Art Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is - the record will bare me out. But I spent a lot of time reading history, sociology, psychology - reading everything except what I was supposed to read for class the next day.” ThinkingReadingNextClassPsychologyRecordsStudentsUniversityChicagoNext DaySociologyReading History Author:Bernie Sanders
“In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.” KnowsMayPersonsProblemNextSuccessfulPsychologyWeekEventsBrokenBeatsAccountsInfiniteLegsRangeFormulasExceptionalNext WeekPredictingBroken Leg Author:Atul Gawande
“Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.” IfsMenWantMindFirstsSometimesChoicesNextDecisionPsychologyAttoliaKing Of Attolia Author:Megan Whalen Turner
“Just because you've had one or two of those games, you can't really go back to the next practice and change everything. That's the most important thing in those situations that you don't think too much, you don't try to change too much because then you're going to be in deep trouble, that's what I think. It's all about keep working on what's been successful for you and keep believing what you're doing is the right thing.” ThinkingTryingBelieveTwoImportantNextGamesSportsSituationPracticeSuccessfulPsychologyToo MuchTroubleImportant ThingsRight ThingHockeySports PsychologyKeep Believing Author:Jonas Gustavsson
“At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.” WorldNeedsChildrenPersonsMightFacesFormMotherNextBornPsychologyBabyPersonalityBirthFunctionIndependentUrgesConquestWombAbsorbingBodily Functions Author:Maria Montessori
“The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help in this. As we become increasingly aware of the ethical problems raised by science and technology, the frontiers between the biological and social sciences are clearly of critical importance-in population density and problems of hunger, psychological stress, pollution of the air and water and exhaustion of irreplaceable resources.” HelpingProblemScienceNextSocialWaterStepsTechnologyPsychologyEnvironmentFailingAirDespairResourcesImportanceStressRaisesRaisedEnvironmentalHungerPopulationCriticalDecadesPsychologicalBiologyEthicalPollutionFrontiersExhaustionCleanersScience And TechnologySocial ScienceIrreplaceableDensityAir And WaterPopulation Density Author:H. Bentley Glass
“Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.” NextSportsEffortPsychologyLandCommitmentBe GoodSelf DiscoveryProsperousCropsCultivationSports PsychologyNext LifeCream Of The Crop Author:Plato
“This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.” ThinkingTogetherSpiritualNextHealingPsychologyFrontsMovementMassToolsWaveEdgesPsychological Author:Kenny Loggins
“I think that always myself is my worst opponent. I always playing against myself first and then to the other one. So I'm playing against two guys during the match...It's like mentally I don't know what is gonna happen in the next ten minutes. Maybe I get depressed in ten minutes. I don't know myself too much...Yeah, I was working with a psychology, and I still.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsStillsTwoHappensGuyNextPsychologyToo MuchMinutesWorstTenYeahOpponentsTennisTwo Guys Author:Gaston Gaudio
“Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.” KnowsWorldWantHumansHeartWould BeNextStudyPsychologyWanderAbandonScholarHuman HeartFarewellGownsHuman PsycheExact SciencesExperimental Psychology Author:Carl Jung
“Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and psychology. He's redefining and reforming the role of the philosopher.” NextRolesPsychologyStudentsComputerPhilosopherCurrentsTraditionalArtificial IntelligenceArtificialNeuroscienceComputer ScienceLinguisticsRedefining Author:Marvin Minsky