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“There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.”

Men Emotion Clear Psychology Streets He Man Argument Instinct Seeking Intellect Appeals Yield Tactics No Point Unimportant Crude Subordinates Psychological Warfare

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable to change violently as the result of a sudden fluctuation of opinion due to factors which do not really make much difference to the prospective yield; since there will be no strong roots of conviction to hold it steady.”

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“Positive thinking is just one small part of positive psychology. Plus, as an approach to well-being, positive thinking only helps you to the extent that it yields one or more positive emotions. The problem with positive thinking is that it sometimes just stays up "in the head" and fails to drip down to become a fully embodied experience.”

Thinking Wells Sometimes Helping Problem Emotion Psychology Failing Positive Thinking Approach Well Being Just One Plus Yield Being Positive Small Parts Positive Psychology Positive Emotions

Author:Barbara Fredrickson

“The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy”

Philosophy Study Psychology Yield Unhealthy Immature Crippled Cripples

Book:American politics and humanistic psychology

Source: American politics and humanistic psychology

“Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.”

Business Psychology Activity Investing Finance Yield Assets Speculation Forecasting

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.”

Way Children Persons Psychology Circumstances Opposites Resistance Temptation Yield Seduction Invitations Unknown Person

Book:Selected Papers, with an Introductory Memoir by Ernest Jones

Source: Selected Papers, with an Introductory Memoir by Ernest Jones

“Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.”

Self Wealth Psychology Sea Creatures Endless Abundance Unconscious Yield

Book:The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The practice of psychotherapy

Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The practice of psychotherapy