"Psychologists have found that we are more likely,……" — Sissela Bok
"Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery."
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12 Quotes by Sissela Bok
Sissela Bok has 12 quotes on this site.
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Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
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Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives…
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education;…
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Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.
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We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know…
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To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth,…
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Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we…
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I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic…
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Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.
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Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect…
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More Dramatic Quotes
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I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss…
— Fred Armisen
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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people…
— Russell Baker
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Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP,…
— Bob Beauprez
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I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders…
— Conrad Black
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Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations,…
— Mary J. Blige
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Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions…
— Eli Broad
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As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.
— Sandra Bullock
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I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
— David Byrne
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I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.
— Nicolas Cage
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Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Oh gosh, I noticed dramatic changes in my body after I started doing yoga, but I also think you have…
— Jennifer Aniston
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