We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.… — Niyi Osundare Copy Share Image
The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as… — Norm Sloan Copy Share Image
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the… — Charles W. Socarides Copy Share Image
“For one to gain wisdom one most first overcome emotions and understand it's causes and effects on others and yourself.” — Nicholas Lopez Copy Share Image
Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
“The suit gave him youth, strength, and hunger. It never promised he would remain himself.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
Learning to read and write makes little sense if you don't understand what you're reading and writing about. While we may have… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Some psychologists argue that the idea of God is a response to our emotional needs, but this presumption is backwards. Our emotional… — Tarek Saab Copy Share Image
The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
Doctors are directly responsible for hooking millions of people on prescription drugs. They are also indirectly responsible for the plight of millions… — Robert S. Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Caring burns a lot of fuel - psychological and physical, too, if any lifting is involved. The energy tank is soon emptied,… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
There's an all-enveloping destructiveness in Donald Trump's character and in his psychological tendencies. But I've focused on what professionally I call solipsistic… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is… — David Einhorn Copy Share Image
