Quotes by Psychologists - Page 27

I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.
Leon Festinger
In one way or another, almost every twentysomething client I have wonders, 'Will things work out for me?' The uncertainty behind that question is what makes twentysomething life so difficult, but it is also what makes twentysomething action so possible and so necessary. It's unsettling to not know the future and, in a way, even more daunting to consider that what we are doing with our twentysomething lives might be determining it.
Meg Jay
Psychotherapy and counselling should make people aware of themselves and of the difficulties which they face. This then gives them the freedom to choose for themselves. In this sense, unlike behaviour therapy, psychotherapy is value-free: no advice, suggestions or recriminations are given. Indeed the only value of psychotherapy is respect for the individual. Such respect, however, in a mechanistic and objectifying society ... becomes a political act.
Paul Kline
A genuine purpose always starts with an impulse. Obstruction of the immediate execution of an impulse converts it into a desire. Nevertheless neither impulse nor desire is itself a purpose. A purpose is an end-view. That is, it involves foresight of the consequences which will result from acting upon impulse.
John Dewey
When you are filled with self-hate your mind is reversed. Meaning you will love the things that destroy you, and you will hate the things that advance your growth.
Amos N. Wilson
The existential hero strives for authenticity even when it is costly, lives meaningfully in the midst of a banal, absurd world, and confronts rather than rejecting reality regardless of the personal cost.
Jason Dias
To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.
Stuart Sutherland
Every evil starts with 15 volts.
Philip G. Zimbardo
What they discovered was that not only fish, but spiders and many insects can taste their food by the structures that are most likely to first come in contact with the food. And this in many invertebrate species turns out to be the feet.
Karen Shanor
People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.
Amit Abraham
Our greatest challenge today...is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.
Kirk J. Schneider
Be busy with your free life.
Amit Abraham
Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fan­tasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming, since this home has never before existed. It is the creation of home.
Alice MIller
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is they would say if they are honest that it is a big department store with new things every week - all the money to buy them and maybe a little more than the neighbours.
Erich Fromm
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.
Henry Cloud
Yes, you ARE important enough; and yes, your needs and wants DO matter.
Miya Yamanouchi
I feel strongly that Christians have a scriptural mandate to love and care for all the people of the world. Even those who are living in immoral circumstances are entitled to be treated with dignity and respect. There is no place for hatred, hurtful jokes, or other forms of rejecting towards those who are gay.
James C. Dobson
There is no season and no reason for love. Love is not seasonal its perennial.
Amit Abraham
Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.
Douglas McGregor
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another but what there is is very important.'
William James
The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
B.F. Skinner
What I am or am not wearing does not correlate with my competency as a professional, a mother, or a feminist role model. My clothes don't define me and neither does my nakedness. I define me.
Miya Yamanouchi
If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.
Abraham H. Maslow
The data on the economic utility of artists is really, really strong. Artists and entrepreneurs are the same people...and of course entrepreneurs are the people who provide all of the vision for the entire capitalist system. They're absolutely necessary.But conservatives tend to be so blind to art that they can't even see that the artists are the ones who drive the economy forward!
Jordan Peterson
All of your precious resources - time, energy, talent, passion, and money - should only go to the areas of your life or your business that are best, are fixable, and are indespensable. Otherwise, average sets in and [your life] does not become what it was designed to be.
Henry Cloud
To the being of fully alive the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo.
John Dewey
People tell me that I should become a politician but I say no I want to do something good for the nation.
Amit Abraham
When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.
Dorothy Rowe
The expression Gone To The Dogs needs to be changed to Gone To Humans Without a Conscience
Amit Abraham
He tells me to pick the music. I’m not sure if he knows that handing me his iPod is like handing me the window to his soul.
Becky Albertalli
Immature loves says ' I love because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you.
Erich Fromm
The best proof of love is trust.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.
Alice MIller
The thing about perspective-changing events is that they usually don't announce themselves as such.
Andrea Goeglein
...whatever God found worth creating we can find worth studying.
David G. Myers
live to the fullest or die;and die you will anyway, so start living!
Christopher S. Hyatt
As has been long observed, men are people, but women are women.
Cordelia Fine
When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee.
Jonathan Haidt
Unspeakable feelings need to find expression in words. However... verbalization of very intense feelings may be a difficult task.
James A. Chu
Fear only one person that is God, listen to only one voice that is your conscience”.
Amit Abraham
She smiles and snuggles into me as we wait for our table. I inhale her scent. Vanilla and something else. Something different. Smokey almost. Sexy. It drives me crazy with need and I have to move away while I can.
Christine Fonseca
To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.
Erich Fromm
To be in Jesus' easy yoke is an easy way of doing hard things." (p. 202)
Bill Gaultiere
Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.
Jonathan Haidt
An anchor should be someone who is personally open and willing to communicate.
Asa Don Brown
No matter how old a mother is she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Don't spend time its very precious - utilize it constructively.
Amit Abraham
Alterations in regulation of affect (emotion) and impulse:Almost all people who are seriously traumatized have problems in tolerating and regulating their emotions and surges or impulses. However, those with complex PTSD and dissociative disorders tend to have more difficulties than those with PTSD because disruptions in early development have inhibited their ability to regulate themselves.The fact that you have a dissociative organization of your personality makes you highly vulnerable to rapid and unexpected changes in emotions and sudden impulses. Various parts of the personality intrude on each other either through passive influence or switching when your under stress, resulting in dysregulation. Merely having an emotion, such as anger, may evoke other parts of you to feel fear or shame, and to engage in impulsive behaviors to stop avoid the feelings.
Suzette Boon
When a child receives the message, even subtly or indirectly, that his emotions don't matter, he will grow up feeling, somewhere deep inside, that he himself doesn't matter.
Jonice Webb
The bonsai grower knows that if she can give life to a product that lives forever and perpetually adds value to the lives of others, she has not only a success but a legacy.
Steven Berglas
I wasn't scared of losing my past. i was scared of losing my future.
Meg Jay
23. With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening.
James C. Dobson
When it comes to fighting for your rights don't fold hands but turn them into fists.
Amit Abraham
We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing that it is growth rather than treatment.
Arnold Lazarus
When leaders lead in ways that people’s brains can follow, good results follow as well.
Henry Cloud
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
Dr. Melba Colgrove
Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.
Henry Cloud
Marriage is a necessary evil
Amit Abraham
True autonomy is preceded by the experience of being dependent. True liberation can be found only beyond the deep ambivalence of infantile dependence.
Alice MIller
That they can strengthen through the empowerment of others is essential wisdom often gathered by women.
Mary Field Belenky