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• All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, Magic, Brain

  "Steven Pinker: The evolutionary man". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

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• One finds limits by pushing them.

  Herbert Simon

  Motivational, Inspiring, Business

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• We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. (p. 221)

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Change, Creating, People Changing

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• Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

  Dan Brown

  Fear, Men, Desire

  Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

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• All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

  Bernard Baruch

  Investing, Movement, Crowds

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• Work hard to make things easier.

  Pete Carril

  Sports, Hard Work, Easier

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  The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”

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• What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

  Abraham Maslow

  Average, Normal, Spread

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Character, Good Luck, Adversity

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Proceedings, Speeches,&c. at the Dinner given to Louis Kossuth at the National Hotel, Washington, Jan. 7, 1852”, p.3

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• Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

  William James

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.12, Nuvision Pubns

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• The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

  William James

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.17, Nuvision Pubns

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• I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

  Hank Azaria

  Drama, College, Hedging

  "The Hilarious Hank Azaria". Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

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• There is no heaven and there is no hell. They are not geographical, they are part of your psychology. They are psychological. To live the life of spontaneity, truth, love, beauty is to live in heaven. To live the life of hypocrisy, lies, compromises,to live according to others, is to live in hell. To live in freedom is heaven, and to live in subjection is hell.

  Rajneesh

  Lying, Live Life, Love Is

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• Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out of conscience. Conscience is cultivated by others, by the vested interests, by the establishment. Consciousness is yours. It is individual, it is not collective. Conscience is part of the mob psychology. Consciousness gives you dignity because it gives you individuality. It gives you rebellion, it makes you capable of saying yes or no of your own accord. There is no foreign agency manipulating you in the name of religion, morality, etcetera.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Agency, Names

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• I think that always myself is my worst opponent. I always playing against myself first and then to the other one. So I'm playing against two guys during the match...It's like mentally I don't know what is gonna happen in the next ten minutes. Maybe I get depressed in ten minutes. I don't know myself too much...Yeah, I was working with a psychology, and I still.

  Gaston Gaudio

  Thinking, Two, Tennis

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• Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Astrology, Judging, Personality

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• I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

  Luke Rhinehart

  Self, Faces, Literature

  Luke Rhinehart (2012). “The Dice Man”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Ego, Sides

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• Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhist, Lying, Heart

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.24, Random House

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• The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious

  Edward F Edinger

  Goal, Conscious, Process

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• To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

  Aldous Huxley

  Irrelevance, Term, Humans

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.

  Alain LeRoy Locke

  Generations, Spirit, Creeds

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• I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.

  Robert Sternberg

  Majors

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• In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Analysis, May

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• It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.

  George Trumbull Ladd

  Practice, Students, Theory

  George Trumbull Ladd (1895). “Philosophy of Mind”, Ams PressInc

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