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• It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.

  Richard Rosen

  Names, Ego, Needs

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• Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.

  Richard Rosen

  Understanding, Frozen, Jargon

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• Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.

  Rider Strong

  Stress, Knowing, Cabins

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• For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Sight, Balance

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• I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.

  C.P. Snow

  Ocean, Moving, Science

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• Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as complete a view as is possible anywhere of the way scientific method can be applied to psychological problems. Secondly, it is of immense practical importance, educationally, socially, and in regard to physiology and genetics.

  Raymond Cattell

  Science, Views, Two

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• Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.

  Emily Yoffe

  Smell, People, Eating Disorder

  "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.

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• From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.

  Arthur Koestler

  Self, Views, Expansion

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• The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.

  Arthur Koestler

  Real, Self, Opposites

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• A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Israel, Survival, Would Be

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• A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Numbers, Quality

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• One aspect of play is the importance of laughter, which has physiological and psychological benefits. Did you know that there are thousands of laughter clubs around the world? People get together and laugh for no reason at all!

  Daniel H. Pink

  Laughter, Play, Laughing

  "Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Space, Giving, Advice

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• Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of rejection isn't just psychological; it's biological. It's in our cells.

  Steven Pressfield

  Cells, Rejection, Tribes

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.87, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.

  Ari Shavit

  Moving, Responsibility, Maturity

  "After Gaza disengagement, then what? Speculation intensifies" by Jack Epstein, www.sfgate.com. August 14, 2005.

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• Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Hero, Desire, Liberation

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• Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information access interferes with that.

  Mark Krikorian

  Country, Ease, Where You Come

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• If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

  Cornelia Parker

  Health, Suffering, Want

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• Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Feelings, Landscape, Cups

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• Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Lying, Ideas, Romance

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

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• People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

  Charles Fort

  Believe, Psychological Needs, People

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• Why building self esteem?. The benefits of having self esteem are numerous. Self esteem is strongly associated with happiness, psychological resilience, and a motivating to live a productive and healthy life.

  Glenn R. Schiraldi

  Self Esteem, Healthy, Resilience

  Glenn R. Schiraldi (2007). “10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem: How to End Self-Doubt, Gain Confidence, & Create a Positive Self-Image”, p.9, New Harbinger Publications

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• Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.

  Harville Hendrix

  Marriage, Spiritual, Journey

  Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. (2007). “Getting the Love You Want, 20th Anniversary Edition: A Guide for Couples”, p.42, Macmillan

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• Most of sex is psychological - most of it is between our ears and not between our legs.

  Joy Browne

  Sex, Women, Ears

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• Whenever I was confronted in the schoolyard, I found some way to avoid the fight. I ran for it. I backed down. Psychologically and emotionally, that isn't a low-cost course of action for most boys. You avoid a physical beating, but you pay a real social and psychological cost for it. Those moments of walking away from fights, even though I knew it was the rational and civilized thing to do, cost me tremendously.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Real, Fighting, Boys

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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