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“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.”

States Feelings Individual Goal Psychology Movement Theory Higher Stronger Strive Psychological Significance Yearning Compensation Inferiority Personal Power

Author:Alfred Adler

“Although the drama of games of strategy is strongly linked with the psychological aspects of the conflict, game theory is not concerned with these aspects. Game theory, so to speak, plays the board. It is concerned only with the logical aspects of strategy.”

Play Games Speak Theory Drama Conflict Concerned Aspect Strategy Psychological Boards Logical Linked

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological needs... but lack the ideas or the means to contribute to the technical base.”

Needs Mean Ideas Together Form Religion Natural Modern Theory Civilization Evidence Psychological Locks Natural Science Pseudoscience Modern Civilization Psychological Needs

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.”

Trying Heart Teacher Theory Educational Psychological Bookkeeping

Author:Janusz Korczak

“[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves.”

Wells Kind Long Made Mother Our Lives Theory Type Judgment Perception Summer Long Time Instruments Psychological Made It Our Family Preference Introversion Jung

Author:Isabel Briggs Myers

“Ever since Freud, being alone has been considered something of a psychological failure. The point, according to Freudian theory, is to be able to love and connect. But I don't believe that at all. I think that being alone and being coupled and being in a group are all natural states in which people can thrive.”

People Thinking Believe Has Beens States Able Natural Groups Theory Don't Believe Psychological Thrive

Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“I am crazy about time cuts. I have a theory that the audience tie everything together so they don't see time cuts but the time cuts give us the possibility of jumping in time, which means a psychological evolution can be cut down.”

Giving Mean Together Audience Cutting Crazy Possibility Theory Evolution Psychological Ties Jumping Jumping In I Am Crazy

Author:Lars von Trier

“One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.”

Use Theory Intellectual Treats Psychological Certainty Hypothesis

Book:Theory in practice: increasing professional effectiveness

Source: Theory in practice: increasing professional effectiveness

“Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological theories that turn churches into relational support groups instead of houses of worship.”

Turns House Church Simple Moral Support Groups Theory Worship Messages Psychological Compromise Clutter Convoluted Support Groups Houses Of Worship

Book:So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There

Source: So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There

“If a psychological Maxwell devises a general theory of mind, he may make it possible for a psychological Einstein to follow with a theory that the mental and the physical are really the same. But this could happen only at the end of a process which began with the recognition that the mental is something completely different from the physical world as we have come to know it through a certain highly successful form of detached objective understanding. Only if the uniqueness of the mental is recognized will concepts and theories be devised especially for the purpose of understanding it.”

Ifs Knows World Mind May Different Ends Happens Form Purpose Certain Process Understanding Successful Theory Concepts Objectives Psychological Recognition Uniqueness Detached Maxwell

Book:The View From Nowhere

Source: The View From Nowhere

“Henceforth, whilst there are a great many theories and models proposed as to how, or why, magic works (based on subtle energies, animal magnetism, psychological concepts, quantum theory, mathematics or the so-called anthropomorphic principle) it is not a case that one of them is more 'true' than others, but a case of which theory or model you choose to believe in, or which theory you find most attractive. Indeed, from a Chaos Magic perspective, you can selectively believe that a particular theory or model of magical action is true only for the duration of a particular ritual or phase of work.”

“Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.”

Deals Theory Psychological Compensation Executive Compensation

Book:the man of letters in the modern world

Source: the man of letters in the modern world