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Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.
The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.
If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.
Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
I am trained as a psychologist, and I think of all human issues in terms of psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary theory.
It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.
What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.
As the number of studies increased, it became clear that writing was a far more powerful tool for healing than anyone had ever imagined.
The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.
Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.
People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.
As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.
The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.
Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them
Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.
When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.
You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution.
Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.
Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.
In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.
When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.
Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.
We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.
To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.
The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.
I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.
I believe it is within our capacity that by the year 2051 that 51 percent of the human population will be flourishing. That is my charge.
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.
Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.
Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.
The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.
Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.
You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.
Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life
The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.
There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.
It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off.
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.
In NVC, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests.
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.