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I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.
Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.
It's misleading to essentialize an entire society as if it were a single mind.
To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.
You're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried.
Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.
If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.
Other-oriented feelings congruent with the perceived welfare of another person.
The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory
The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.
Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.
Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.
I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.
To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to to grow intellectually.
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself.
Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them.
No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
When you choose to connect with others under stress, you can create resilience.
Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.
Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.
Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously.
As we start looking for the good, our focus automatically is taken off the bad.
In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary.
Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
In order for us to become truly happy, that which we can become, we must become.
The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.
Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.
We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing.
I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.
You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.
The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.