Psychics Quotes - Page 13

• In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes, and the influence of strong and extraordinary stimuli. In man precisely similar conditions constitute the usual causes of nervous and psychic disturbances. Different conditions productive of extreme excitation, such as intense grief or bitter insults, often lead, when the natural reactions are inhibited by the necessary restraint, to profound and prolonged loss of balance in nervous and psychic activity.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Dog, Strong, Grief

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• I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

  Hugh Laurie

  Ideas, Suffering, Comfort

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an acceptable context of interpretation. Only in the context of an emergent universe will the human project come to an integral understanding of itself. We must, however, come to experience the universe in its psychic as well as in its physical aspect. We need to experience the sequence of evolutionary transformations as moments of grace, and also as celebration moments in our new experience of the sacred.

  Thomas Berry

  Future, New Experiences, Grace

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.170, Crown

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• The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Psychology, Definitions

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Distance, Thinking, Order

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• Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?

  Judy Garland

  Rainbow, Bird, Empowerment

  Song: Over the Rainbow {from The Wizard of Oz}, Album: Spotlight on Judy Garland (Great Ladies Of Song)

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• In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes a primary concern.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  People, Energy, Use

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.63, Penguin

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• What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Loyalty, Jobs, Leader

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.394, John Wiley & Sons

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• I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

  Anne Tyler

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.

  Sydney J. Harris

  People, Minorities, Waste

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The physically divided are also the conquered and the controlled. 'True desires' - erotic, gustatory, olfactory, musical, aesthetic, psychic, & spiritual - are best attained in a context of freedom of self and other in physical proximity & mutual aid. Everything else is at best a sort of representation.

  Hakim Bey

  Spiritual, Self, Erotic

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• If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.

  Sandra Lee

  Dark, Attention, Demand

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• Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

  Tina Brown

  Mistake, Punishment, Weakness

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• If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Music, Sports, Football

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

  Carl Jung

  Creative, Psychology, Depth

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.220, Psychology Press

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• Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Time, Memories, Real

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• Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation

  Alexander Lowen

  Faith, Animal, Feelings

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• If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.

  Tony Kushner

  Gay, Hands, Black

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• It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It is the spirit of the child that can determine the course of human progress and lead it perhaps even to a higher form of civilization.

  Maria Montessori

  Strong, Children, Civilization

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• I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Helping, Bitter

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• In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Light, Views, Growth

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• I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

  May Sarton

  Letting Go, Pain, Grief

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• Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a crow and crane by his intense will, produced by anger?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Crow, Burning

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.307, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.

  Adrienne Rich

  Teacher, Mirrors, World

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• Grunt, foam at the mouth, and otherwise get psychic.

  Theodore Annemann

  Magic, Foam, Mouths

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