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492 Psychologist Quotes

I can go all over the world with Skype.
Go I Can Over Skype
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The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.

Another Another Way Come Death
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You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

Content Discontent Even Moving
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

Because Come Each Friendship
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Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.
Bit Each Finds His
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Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.

Active Being Deep Each
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.

Being Entered Entrance Go
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

Cosmic Guru I Can India
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

Accept Change Curious Myself
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Creative Essence Hence Judge
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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Change Educated Only Learn
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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

Being Open Distorted Freely
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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

Leads Acquire Facts Bit
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I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

Meets Order Learning Directly
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Being Process Life Good
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
People Look World Optimistic
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

Free Days Price Life
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Memory Left Happens Completely
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Creativity Breaking Different way
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Situation Problem Certain Exist
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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Creativity Temporary Structures
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Executives Scientist Business school Believe
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Mistakes Inadequacies Perception Logic
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Opportunity Lie Ideas Produced
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
Purpose Science Useful World
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Argument Reveal Create
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Motivation Willingness Stop
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Surprised Attention Philosophers Humor
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In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

Future Striving Flexible Plural
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Opportunities Occur Crowd
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Complexity Inefficient Mental energy
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Humor Significant Activity Human brain
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Need Right Biggest Bar
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Unhappiness Difference Talent Expectations
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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Successful Mad Talent Rapid growth
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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Intelligent people Thinker Average Skilled
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Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured.

Creative thinking Mystical Skill
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
School Place Thinking Taught
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

Teaching Unemployed youngsters
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

Great deal Children Problem Original solution
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Humor Characteristic Human mind
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A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

Painter World Craftsman People
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You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.

Cause Know Person Really
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We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

Assumes Economic Future Idea
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If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

Down Good Idea Reflect
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The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

Decision Effort Getting Importance
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Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

Life About Think Feelings
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Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

Deliberate Feeling Slow Something
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We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

Generally Impressions Judgments Opinions
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When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

Analyze Extremely Happiness Important
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