“Self-esteem is the way you regard yourself as either being worth your mother’s while to care for you, protect you and keep you safe and alive, to be present for you when you need her to meet your needs – or not.”
— Kevin Solomons
“Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.”
— Francis Mont
“It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.”
— Miguel de Unamuno
“Humans draw a hard line between thinking something and saying it aloud.”
— Will McIntosh
“One of the great self-deceptions–and one of the great foolishnesses–is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape.”
— Nathaniel Branden
“If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. My Princeton colleague Danny Oppenheimer refuted a myth prevalent among undergraduates about the vocabulary that professors find most impressive. In an article titled “Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly,” he showed that couching familiar ideas in pretentious language is taken as a sign of poor intelligence and low credibility.”
— Daniel Kahneman
“It is crucial for us to understand the origins of our low self-esteem before we can transcend it.”
— Kevin Solomons
“Know Thyself”
— Oracle of Delphos
“Might it be possible at some future time, when neurophysiology has advanced substantially, to reconstruct the memories or insight of someone long dead?…It would be the ultimate breach of privacy.”
— Carl Sagan
“If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.”
— Adrian Furnham
“The analysis of the psychological motivations behind certain doctrines or ideas can never be a substitute for a rational judgment of the validity of the doctrine and of the values which it implies, although such analysis may lead to a better understanding of the real meaning of a doctrine and thereby influence one’s value judgment.What the psychological analysis of doctrines can show is the subjective motivations which make a person aware of certain problems and make him seek for answers in certain directions. Any kind of thought, true or false, if it is more than a superficial conformance with conventional ideas, is motivated by the subjective needs and interests of the person who is thinking. It happens that some interests are furthered by finding the truth, others by destroying it. But in both cases the psychological motivations are important incentives for arriving at certain conclusions. We can go even further and say that ideas which are not rooted in powerful needs of the personality will have little influence on the actions and on the whole life of the person concerned.”
— Erich Fromm
“Thank you Bjork Peterson for a wonderful review of my new book “Why We Love Serial Killers” @readingghost”
— Scott A. Bonn
“People think you have only to ‘tell’ a person that he ‘ought’ to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter.”
— C.G. Jung
“If we can predict, then we have observed enough to know that what we are observing does not just happen randomly; we have noted a pattern of regularities.”
— Hugh Coolican
“The secondhand experience is always better. The image is crisper, the view is keener, the camera angle and the soundtrack manipulate my emotions in a way reality can’t anymore. I don’t know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script.”
— Gillian Flynn
“Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.”
— Idries Shah
“Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year.”
— Dean Koontz
“But it’s tempting to be Cool Girl. For someone like me, who likes to win, it’s tempting to want to be the girl every guy wants. When I met Nick, I knew immediately that was what he wanted, and for him, I guess I was willing to try. I will accept my portion of blame. The thing is, I was crazy about him at first. I found him perversely exotic, a good ole Missouri boy. He was so damn nice to be around. He teased things out in me that I didn’t know existed: a lightness, a humor, an ease. It was as if he hollowed me out and filled me with feathers. He helped me be Cool Girl – I couldn’t have been Cool Girl with anyone else. I wouldn’t have wanted to. I can’t say I didn’t enjoy some of it: I ate a MoonPie, I walked barefoot, I stopped worrying. I watched dumb movies and ate chemically laced foods. I didn’t think past the first step of anything, that was the key. I drank a Coke and didn’t worry about how to recycle the can or about the acid puddling in my belly, acid so powerful it could strip clean a penny. We went to a dumb movie and I didn’t worry about the offensive sexism or the lack of minorities in meaningful roles. I didn’t even worry whether the movie made sense. I didn’t worry about anything that came next. Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment, and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber. But also happy.”
— Gillian Flynn
“Psychosis is person less persona, raving sincerity.”
— Brian Spellman
“you can’t read Human mind by #Psychology… you can read their mind by talking with them at night..”
— Self_Thought
“Human nature is so complicated that it will never know the exact border between normality and abnormality them they..”
— Monica Rus Carmen psychologyst
“Genes and education are fundamental building blocks with witch man develops personality and lifestyle in one way or other…”
— Monica Rus Carmen psychologyst
“Human person as a unit harmonic and dynamic individual integrates in the living environment using for this purpose all available resources.”
— Monica Rus Carmen psychologyst
“we live now in circumstances that encourage rather than discourage lying; evidence and activity are more easily concealed, and the need to rely on demeanor as an indicator of a person’s truthfulness is greater. And our evolutionary history has not prepared us to be very sensitive to the behavioral clues relevant to lying.”
— Clancy Martin
“When you deal with naked power from an inferior position, perspectives get distorted. He was the aggrieved party and yet he felt guilty and would continue to do so all his life.”
— Kiran Nagarkar
“Clever deceivers rarely tell outright falsehoods. It’s too risky. The art of deception is closely related to the magician’s craft: it involves knowing how to draw attention to a harmless place, to deflect it away from the action. Deeply entrenched patterns of perceptual, emotional, and cognitive dispositions serve as instruments of deception. A skilled deceiver is an illusionist who knows how to manipulate the normal patterns of what is salient to their audience. He places salient markers—something red, something anomalous, something desirable—in the visual field, to draw attention just where he wants it.”
— Clancy Martin
“He had scores to settle with the world, and she, at that moment, was world enough for him.”
— John Banville
“My mind is so clever, but it does me no favors.”
— Anonymous
“The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil—it is merely a restatement of the mystery—and only offers an escape valve for the frustration felt by psychiatrists, social workers, and police officers, who daily encounter its force.”
— Janet Malcolm
“…co-rumination: the problem of talking too much about anything. Specifically,… when girls rehash their problems excessively, it leads to depression, anxiety, and a sense of hopelessness.”
— Levine