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• The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are abundant. But never before has there been such a prima donna as Bobby. Already he has managed to alienate and offend almost everybody in the chess world. That includes officials, patrons, writers, almost everybody and anybody who might be in a position to help him in his career.

  Israel Albert Horowitz

  Player, Vanity, Careers

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• According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, "He and Randy came to my house, they knocked on my door, and then they blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in their car. They took me to their apartment and tried to force me to take bong hits. They'd been smoking pot."

  Rand Paul

  Weed, Jobs, Doors

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• The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour longer each day than the preceding one: the day after he had thus reached a total of something over twenty-three hours he slept up to the limit of twenty-four hours, and then died in his sleep.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Death, Sleep, Science

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• With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age—are so beautifully revealed here, a trenchant reminder that our pasts are alive inside of us. There are psychologists who can write, and writers who can psychologize, but rarely have the two met on the page with such moving, profound results.

  Dani Shapiro

  Uplifting, Memories, Moving

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• Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Giving, Littles, Irony

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• Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The woman has her own way: feminine, softer, a little more civilized, more subdued. But the situation is the same. Now psychologists are talking about marriage as an intimate enmity. And that's what it has proved to be. Two enemies are living together pretending to be in love, expecting the other to give love; and the same is being expected by the other. Nobody is ready to give - nobody has it. How can you give love if you don't have it?

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Fighting, Men

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• I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Daughter, Knows

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• Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all. In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare.

  Bill Walsh

  Strong, People, Ego

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• Before I tried LSD, I'd been going to a psychologist for a couple of years. I found out about success that you have to fight for it a lot, then when you achieve it, you can't give up the fight.

  Larry Hagman

  Giving Up, Couple, Fighting

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• The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some of its components - judgment, emotional regulation - do improve with age in most people, consciously or not. Of course there is a subset of people out there who are sitting in their rocking chairs, spewing hate, but my guess is that these people weren't very pleasant to begin with, ... The reality is that the data are fairly convincing that people as they get older become more positive and less self-absorbed.

  James W. Pennebaker

  Hate, Reality, Emotional

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• The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

  John B. Watson

  Views, Talking

  John B. Watson (2017). “Behaviorism”, p.175, Routledge

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• Well, if you’re a native Chicagoan, you know how dumb he [Dr. Robert Hartley] is. He gets on the Ravenswood El, he goes past his stop on Sheridan Road, he gets off in Evanston, where the El is on the ground, and then he walks back 55 blocks to his apartment. Now, would you want to have that man as a psychologist? A man who misses his stop every day?

  Bob Newhart

  Block, Past, Men

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• Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

  Helen Fisher

  Romantic Love, Years, Romance

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• A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down, in thirty seconds, the initials of the people they disliked. Some of the students taking the test could think of only one person. Others listed as many as fourteen. The interesting fact that came out of this bit of research was this: Those who disliked the largest number were themselves the most widely disliked. When we find ourselves continually disliking others, we ought to bring ourselves up short and ask ourselves the question: "What is wrong with me."

  James Keller

  College, Thinking, Numbers

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• Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Struggle, Compassion

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• Golf is no longer a game of hitting the ball, finding it, and hitting it again. There is wind to be measured, whether that means tossing blades of grass in the air or studying the gentle movement of 60-foot high branches. There are caddie conferences for even the most routine shots. There are sports psychologists who tell players not to hit until they're ready.

  Doug Ferguson

  Sports, Mean, Golf

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• I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be more appropriate.

  Adrian Peterson

  Children, People, Alternatives

  "NFL Star Adrian Peterson Cleared to Play by Vikings, Speaks Publicly on Child Abuse Charge" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 15, 2014.

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• Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Creative, Zoologist, Anecdotes

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• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Practice, Tennis, Trying

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• Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were thnking. Or they sought to attain the same end by asking another person a question, by means of which certain processes of thought would be excited, and then by questioning the person about the introspection he had made. It is obvious ... that nothing can be discovered in such experiments.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Mean, Psychology, Would Be

  Wilhelm Wundt, (2013). “An Introduction to Psychology”, p.75, Read Books Ltd

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• Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

  Garrison Keillor

  Humor, Laughing, Doe

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters”, p.14, Penguin

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• The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Clouds, Trying, Shapes

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• I exercise regularly. I eat moderate amounts of healthy food. I make sure to get plenty of rest. I see my doctor once a year and my dentist twice a year. I floss every night. I've had chest x–rays, cardio stress tests, EKGs and colonoscopies. I see a psychologist and have a variety of hobbies to reduce stress. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I don't have crazy, reckless sex with strangers. If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed.

  Chuck Lorre

  Sex, Stress, Crazy

  "Who Is Chuck Lorre, the Mysterious Producer Who Enraged Charlie Sheen?" By Meagan Murphy, www.foxnews.com. March 2, 2011.

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• But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

  Lytton Strachey

  Poetic, Obvious, Great Poet

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics

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• But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends.

  Josiah Royce

  Light, Views, Feelings

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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