Psychology Quote by George Saunders

“The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch. He takes on the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters, compel him…

— Steven Pressfield

“The subconscious mind, like the Good Lord, can work in a mysterious way, and mine has been known to work in a way that…

— John Dolan

“We are thus led to ask what the writer looks for and how he trains himself to look for it. The answer is: he…

— Jacques Barzun

“Man cuts out for himself a manageable world: he throws himself into action uncritically, unthinkingly. He accepts the cultural programming that turns his nose…

— Ernest Becker

“Uncouth, clannish, lumbering about the confines of Space and Time with a puzzled expression on his face and a handful of things scavenged on…

— M. John Harrison

“The mind is not the know-er”

— unknowen

“consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages”

— john j geddes

“Rest from inordinate desire or knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit.”

— Thomas à Kempis

“Afterward the Captain was to tell himself that in this one instant he knew everything. Actually, in a moment when a great but unknown…

— Carson McCullers

“I told the others which trees to chop, where to get the mud, even though I was not the official leader. My father used…

— Haing Ngor

“Man's inability to understand and appreciate the thought and viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of mechanical ability…

— Clifford D. Simak