Aim Quote by Edward Thorndike Download Open image “Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.” — Edward Thorndike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aim Helping Probability Psychology
Psychology is important but motivation is something that if you don't have it inside then you can't provide it. — Diego Simeone Copy Share Image
Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
“The goals we repeatedly think about and focus on tend to materialize faster and easier. Therefore, spend time mentally visualizing or concentrating on positive… — Master Del Pe Copy Share Image
Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To understand most important ideas in psychology, you need to understand how the mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. We assume that… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Very often when we aim at the best, or what we may think is the best for our children, we aim really at lesser… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics:… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation,… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child. — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of… — Jerome Kerviel Copy Share Image
My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads… — Natasha Henstridge Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed it - being involved in watching rushes and playback [in "The Invisible Woman"]. Ralph [Fiennes] was very open to my input,… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
The single aim of my life is that every child is: free to be a child, free to grow and develop, free to eat,… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image