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The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.
If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.
Each person enters the world "called," like an oak tree, to fulfill their soul’s agenda.
The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love.
We wrongly but persistently expect to make different decisions tomorrow than we do today
There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.
Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being
NVC is a reminder; to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met.
Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.
The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.
If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses.
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.
If the sign on your heart says "WELCOME", the love will come pouring in from everywhere.
There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic.
When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.
Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.
It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.
Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.
There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
Confidence is consistency of thinking about what is possible and how to make it possible.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.
The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.
When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.
I never have to worry about another person's response, only how I react to what they say.
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.
Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.
Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.
I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.
If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.
In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.
I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.