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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is. B. F. Skinner

Life Me Made My Life Design Direct Never Always Came Up Did Decisions Them Things

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. B. F. Skinner

Society Attacks Individual Helpless Early

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives. Barry Schwartz

You Do The Right Thing People Crushed Virtues Right Thing Those Rely Undermine Because Discover Exist Want Anyone The Right Thing Then Incentives Who Actually Right Thing Desire Need

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. Carl Jung

Genius Better Sometimes Indeed Oneself Between Talent Qualities Been His Discrepancy Human Whether Little Might Ask Less Human Qualities

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning. Carl Jung

Soul Suffering Must Understood Discovered Ultimately Which Meaning

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music. Carl Jung

Music Noise Always Just Scream

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them. Carl Jung

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Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. Cesare Lombroso

Genius Insanity Forms Many

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify. Dale Archer

Family You School Job Become Addiction Absolutely Obsessed Qualify Texting Friends Anything Much Things Need

Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate. Daniel Kahneman

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. David Seabury

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice. David Seabury

Art Good Character Humor Practice Trait Which Requires

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not. David Seabury

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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. Edward de Bono

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it. Edward de Bono

Truth Argument Reveal Create Meant

If you never change your mind, why have one? Edward de Bono

You Change Mind Never Your Why

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. Erich Fromm

Life Meaning Of Life Living Only Itself Meaning Meaning Of Act

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. Erich Fromm

Dreams Strange Logical Nothing Our Minds Our Dreams Dream Purposeful Understand Least Goes Act Awake Comparison Sleep

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age. Erik Erikson

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term. Harry Stack Sullivan

Love Own Other State Circumstances Significant Security Term Another Becomes Exists Person Regardless Then Usage Popular Satisfaction Present

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