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“Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire.”

“Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.”

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Book:The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

“In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life.”

Thinking Stories Teach Psychology Okay Notion Love Story Twilight Reverse Story Of My Life Athleticism Imprinting

Book:Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)

“I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it now and I think I'm a better athlete because of that.”

Thinking Knows Sports Psychology Athlete Time Off Sports Psychology

Author:Libby Trickett

“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.”

Thinking Trying Believe Two Important Next Games Sports Situation Practice Successful Psychology Too Much Trouble Important Things Right Thing Hockey Sports Psychology Keep Believing

Author:Jonas Gustavsson

“Everyone who has been to an Olympics says expect the unexpected. That kind of psychology games does go on, so I'm kind of expecting things to happen but I don't know who from. I think it's kind of silly but I'm prepared for it. I'd probably just laugh it off because it means that they are afraid of racing me, so it's like a huge compliment”

“There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Long Has Beens Enough Form Law Psychology Military

Author:William James

“As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of 'mind' with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l' esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part.”

Source: The Act of Creation

“While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be rational for me to jump into the canal. But I have no reason to jump. I merely think I do. And, if some dangerous treatment would save your life, but you don't know that fact, it would be irrational for you to take this treatment, but that is what you have most reason to do.”

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Author:Derek Parfit

“I've decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it's the right thing to do.”

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Author:Charlie Crist

“must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.”

Thinking Reason Action Moral Psychology Ethics Valuable Acknowledge

Book:Essays on the powers of the human mind: An essay on quantity. An analysis of Aristotl's logic

Source: Essays on the powers of the human mind: An essay on quantity. An analysis of Aristotl's logic

“Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.”

Thinking Way Needs Years Lasts Spiritual Individual Forever Psychology Habit Findings Twenties Significant Helplessness

Book:Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“It's always something that's going to be a part of me. It's the reason why I work so hard each and every day. It's the reason I come to work dedicated to become the best that I can be. Nothing's going to come easy in life, and I've learned a lot of lessons, some the hard way, and I think just the things that I've been through have helped mold me into the person I am and what (is in) my future and that's continuing to do things the right way.”

“When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess.”

Thinking Way Should Art Real Play Games Sports Psychology Position Bears Relation Chess Opponents

Author:Jose Raul Capablanca

“I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided. It's a real thing, double nature. I think we're split in a much more devastating way than psychology can ever reveal. It's not so cute. Not some little thing we can get over. It's something we've got to live with”

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Author:Sam Shepard

“I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.”

Thinking Want Littles Ideas Used Names Psychology Saws Internet Husband Lists Enthusiasm My Husband Scare Reverse Printed Dave Reverse Psychology

Author:Holly Marie Combs

“Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.”

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Author:Sigmund Freud

“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.”

Thinking Mind Talking Psychology Communication Philosophical Psychological

Author:Plato

“Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But realism, being a view about the status of such normative theories, insists that the truth of any firstorder normative standard is not a function of what anyone happens to think of it.”

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Book:Moral Realism: A Defence

Source: Moral Realism: A Defence

“Thought is action in rehearsal.”

Thinking Action Psychology Meditation Positive Law Of Attraction Rehearsal

Author:William Zinsser

“You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason”

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Author:Richard Bandler

“If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Process Psychology Information Actresses Human Psyche

Author:Claire Danes

“Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.”

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Author:David Chalmers

“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.”

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Author:Kenny Loggins

“Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”

Thinking Knows Life Should Action Knowledge Psychology Our Lives Personality Shapes Oneself Self Knowledge Knowing Oneself

Book:Carnets: 1935-1942

Source: Carnets: 1935-1942

“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

“I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish 'psychic distance' from the 'mental facts' to which Köhler referred, and then to explore the possibilities for developing explanatory theories... We must recognize that even the most familiar phenomena require explanation and that we have no privileged access to the underlying mechanisms, no more so than in physiology or physics.”

“The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.”

Thinking Men Littles Psychology Prejudice Metaphysical

Book:Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology (Psychology Revivals)

Source: Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology (Psychology Revivals)

“Thus ordered thinking arises out of the ordered course of nature in which man finds himself, and this thinking is from the beginning nothing more than the subjective reproduction of the regularity according to the law of natural phenomena. On the other hand, this reproduction is only possible by means of the will that controls the concatenation of ideas.”

Thinking Men Mean Ideas Hands Law Courses Natural Psychology Arise Subjective Reproduction Regularity Natural Phenomena

Book:An Introduction to Psychology

Source: An Introduction to Psychology

“If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I know, I think I don't know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Psychology

Author:R. D. Laing

“Part of my preparation for the World Champion match against Kasparov was to be ready for his off-board tactics. I did not to react to them at all. Once you start thinking about these things during the game, even analysing them, you're caught.”

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Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.”

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Book:Psychology and religion: West and East

Source: Psychology and religion: West and East

“It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long.”

Thinking Long Hard Easy Sports Psychology Awake Sports Psychology

Author:Hugh Campbell

“Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things.”

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Author:Danny Murtaugh

“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.”

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Author:Gaston Gaudio

“Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing was expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he declared: “The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.””

Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

“I'm conscious of race whenever I'm writing, just as I'm conscious of class, religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up the human experience. I don't think I can do a good job if I'm not paying attention to what's meaningful to people, and in American culture, there isn't anything that informs human interaction more than the idea of race.”

“Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think the opposite of what you believe, and that tricks them into doing something stupid. Works like a charm.”

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Author:Steve Carell

“An adolescent does not rebel against her parents. She rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more on nonpower methods to influence their children from infancy on, there would be little for children to rebel against when they become adolescents. The use of power to change the behavior of children, then, has this severe limitation: parents inevitably run out of power, and sooner than they think.”

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Author:Thomas Gordon

“I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.”

People Thinking Life Children Hope Psychology Relationship Childhood Our Children Seeking Broke Fixing People In Your Life

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.”

Thinking Needs Children School Growth Teach Psychology Overcoming Psychotherapy Disturbance School System

Author:Albert Ellis

“I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.”

Thinking Needs Play Character Understanding Roles Psychology

Author:Hugo Weaving

“I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.”

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Author:Keenen Ivory Wayans

“Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.”

“I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.”

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Author:Gloria Estefan

“Let us not have a computer psychology that makes us think we know it all. All answers on computers - but no surprises. The challenge of love. God reveals himself through surprises.”

Thinking Knows Challenges Answers Psychology Computer Surprise God Love Know It All

Author:Pope Francis

“Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the "things" they like and need and feel impelled to acquire. But our societal and political arrangements are just as much manipulations of game-pieces and rules as is any Atari or Sega product. The subliminal psychology that drives people to become addicted to games, not to be able to see over the edges of their labyrinths, is transferable to any field whatsoever.”

“I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.”

People Thinking Mean Interesting Psychology

Author:Joan Cusack

“Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.”

Thinking Should Stories Fun Behinds Study Psychology

Author:Chris Cleave

“I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.”

Ifs Thinking Want Interest Psychology Routes Competing

Author:Jessica Ennis

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