Psychological Disorders Quotes

• Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality

  Oliver Pell

  Reality, Optimism, Psychological

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• Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.

  Andrew Lo

  Simple, Law, Envy

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• There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

  Amy Chua

  Asia, West, Kind

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.38, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Much of the left's hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding, producing logical contradictions that would be impossible to sustain were it not for the central element faith plays in the left's new religion. The basic tenet of their faith is this: Maybe they were wrong about their facts and policies, but they are good and conservatives are evil. You almost want to give it to them. It's all they have left.

  Ann Coulter

  Hate, Play, Evil

  "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right". Book by Ann Coulter, 2002.

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• We have made a terrible mistake! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders and delegated their treatment to trained specialists. Damaged psyches aren't the problem. The problem is disconnected souls. What we need is connection. What we need is a healing community.

  Larry Crabb

  Mistake, Healing, Psych

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• The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience . Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in brain structure and function, including many psychological disorders and, presumably, genius. The study confirms that the brain is a modular system comprising multiple intelligences, mostly nonverbal.

  Steven Pinker

  Brain, Genius, Structure And Function

  "On Einstein's brain". The New York Times, June 24, 1999.

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• It goes back to the if identity becomes your achievement, what do you do, this is what happens? And I do think it leads to psychological disorders. You have to start doing things and stop thinking about yourself.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Thinking About You, Achievement, Identity

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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