When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence,"… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“I am a non-accredited, overly logical psychologist, therapist, mechanic, diplomat, businessman, and Teacher working in an industry that is still defining itself… — Ka Wai Cheung Copy Share Image
We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk,… — Jurgen Klinsmann Copy Share Image
I’m not a scholar or a psychologist, so I don’t really think about why. But I do think about what it means… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon.… — Claude Chabrol Copy Share Image
Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“My interest in psychology was as a way to do philosophy,” he said. “To understand the world by understanding why people, especially… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Psychologists would say that the only two important forms of social learning are imitation and teaching, and they will spend time trying… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, "He and Randy came to my… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Golf is no longer a game of hitting the ball, finding it, and hitting it again. There is wind to be measured,… — Doug Ferguson Copy Share Image
So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
A group of psychologists say they have discovered twenty-three different body language indicators that show whether or not a person is lying.… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A good doctor, and in a special sense the psychologist, makes it quite deliberately, slightly harder for the patient to recover too… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says...' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
People are, by and large, quite poor at judging correct absolute values but are astute about determining relative values. Psychologists call this… — Michael Mauboussin Copy Share Image
I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody should go through life without a team of psychologists. I have been through times when I'm literally squatting… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good… — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I think I'm lucky in that I can park things. I don't dwell. I've got a selective memory. I only remember the… — Graeme Souness Copy Share Image
I went to a psychologist friend and said if 500 people claimed to see Jesus after he died, it was just a… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues… — Leon Botstein Copy Share Image
It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers,… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Religion and science, for example, are often though to be opponents, but as I have shown, the insights of ancient religions and… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Psychologist Robert Kegan,8 chair of adult development at Harvard, has a term for unzipping those costumes. He calls it “the subject-object shift”… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
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