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Everyone who has been to an Olympics says expect the unexpected. That kind of psychology games does go on, so I'm kind of expecting things… — Libby Trickett
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate… — Wilfred Trotter
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next… — Maria Montessori
It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology… — Malcolm X
The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which… — Malcolm X
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid… — B.F. Skinner
A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you… — Harold Ramis
There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep… — William James
In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart. — Ambrose Bierce
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. — Willard Van Orman Quine
Fascination with the psychic - or the psychological - can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path. — Starhawk
Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek… — Nevill Francis Mott
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature. — Edward Blishen
Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a sheep, and spirituality… — Rajneesh
At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a… — Daniel Goleman
There is a secret psychology of money. Most people don't know about it. That's why most people never become financially successful. A lack of money… — T. Harv Eker
Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone);… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to… — Lincoln Steffens
In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary… — Charles Darwin
In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is… — Niels Bohr
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the… — Arthur Koestler
The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from… — Edward Sapir
Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out of conscience. Conscience… — Rajneesh
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't… — Lincoln Steffens
...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an… — Barry Goldwater

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