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• Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.

  William Westney

  Adventure, Joy, Facts

  William Westney (2006). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”, p.169, Amadeus Press

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• My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.

  Richard Griffiths

  Father, Lying, Body

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• 'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

  Howard Gardner

  Book, Would Be, Audience

  "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner, Part I". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1942). “How to Think Up”

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• Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

  Robert Breault

  Cat, Two, People

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• Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Imagination, Perception, Ingredients

  "Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant, (A 120), (1781; 1787).

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• A group of psychologists say they have discovered twenty-three different body language indicators that show whether or not a person is lying. If you would like to see all twenty-three at the same time, they recommend taking a guided tour of the White House

  Conan O'Brien

  Lying, White, House

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• On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon. Jeanne is the vowel and Sophie the consonant. Psychologists know this phenomenon well. Each individual is harmless, but together they create an explosive chemical reaction. It's like Bonnie and Clyde, like Thelma and Louise.

  Claude Chabrol

  Character, Together, Sophie

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• Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

  Margaret Mead

  Baby, Husband, Children

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.

  Alexei Sayle

  Mean, Necks, Forget

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• When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias, and it presents a major impediment of our ability to break free from the misinterpretation of randomness.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Ideas, Matter, Way

  Leonard Mlodinow (2009). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.164, Penguin UK

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• I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

  Annie Baker

  Mother, Kitchen, Sitting

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• Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

  Susan Cain

  Degrees, Debate, Shyness

  "The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this means that we find the psychological facts as it were in the constellations. This originally gave rise to the idea that these factors derive from the stars, whereas they are merely in a relation of synchronicity with them. I admit that this is a very curious fact which throws a peculiar light on the structure of the human mind.

  Carl Jung

  Stars, Mean, Light

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, Psychology Press

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• Want to know the key to a long-lasting relationship? Don't go with your loved one to Ikea. One psychologist says the stress of a visit to the popular furniture store can cause serious friction between couples, whether it's disputes over what to buy or spats while you assemble the items that you bought there.

  Juan Williams

  Couple, Stress, Ikea

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• One of the most common words in the invalidating, self-blaming stories we believe about ourselves or our situations is the word "should." The psychologist Albert Ellis has coined the phrase "Stop shoulding on yourself." When you tell yourself that you should feel or be another way, you are likely to feel bad about yourself. As an alternative, try telling yourself that it is okay to feel or be the way you are, even though you have some idea that you should feel or be different.

  William Hudson O'Hanlon

  Believe, Self, Ideas

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• Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better

  David Hemenway

  Thinking, Want, Should

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• The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."Mark McCormack, Author and sports entrepreneur"Psychologists tell us that money is a satisfier, not a motivator... Recognition is. That's why we do what we do... Recognition is critical to self-esteem. Without it, we feel undervalued, even insignificant. Money is nice, sure. But once you establish a basis of monetary rewards, without the accompanying verbal and social affirmation, the employee will quickly become disgruntled and ask for more. Eventually, more will never be enough.

  John Baldoni

  Inspiring, Sports, Nice

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• There are still psychologists who, in a basic misunderstanding, think that gestalt theory tends to underestimate the role of past experience. Gestalt theory tries to differentiate between and-summative aggregates, on the one hand, and gestalten, structures, on the other, both in sub-wholes and in the total field, and to develop appropriate scientific tools for investigating the latter.

  Max Wertheimer

  Thinking, Past, Hands

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• A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I can't prescribe medicine. (You still need a doctorate, which is bullshit.) Okay, so I'm not like a psychiatrist. Fine. But I'm still like a psychologist (except I can't diagnose or treat mental illness).

  Eugene Mirman

  Medicine, Bullshit, Comedian

  Eugene Mirman (2009). “The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But for all that, would he experience the phenomena of inspiration? His human documentation gathered from inspired poets could hardly be related, except from the exterior, in an ideal of objective observations. Comparison of inspired poets would soon make us lose sight of inspiration.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Inspiration, Sight, Documentation

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• I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Novelists, Human Nature, Great Education

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• I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really want to do, and it is. The only other job I'd want is to be a psychologist, as I spend most of my time analyzing people and emotions.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Jobs, Taken, People

  "A Minute With: Evan Rachel Wood on 'Ides of March'". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. October 5, 2011.

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• What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade

  Alfie Kohn

  Caring, Knowing, Helpful

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• If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Psychology, Nonsense

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.234, Penguin

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