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The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. Alfred Adler

Inferiority Feeling Has-Been More Emotional Powerful Greater Been Experienced Urge Agitation Conquest Violent

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. Alfred Adler

Inferiority Feeling Exaggerated Expression

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. Alfred Adler

Death Great Blessing Creative Humanity People Progress Young Would Only Could Without Real Discourage Stimulus Hamper Lack Themselves Really Who Lived Ever Sufficient

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you. Alice Miller

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Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations. Alison Gopnik

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Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school. Alison Gopnik

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Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel. Amy Cuddy

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Being gritty doesn't mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They're able to say things like, 'Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.' That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit. Angela Duckworth

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When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well. Angela Duckworth

When people tell me I can't do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, 'Yes, I can.' Angela Duckworth

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Most teachers, when surveyed, say that it is part of their job to help students develop things like grit. This is especially true at the elementary and middle school levels. They feel it's part of their vocation to teach other things that are not formally academic content. Angela Duckworth

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What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me. Anna Freud

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What is sought can never produce the seeking. B. F. Skinner

Seeking Never Sought Produce

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. Carl Rogers

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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. Carl Rogers

Art Creative Judge Very Essence Which Standard Novelty Hence

Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world. Dale Archer

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Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world. Daniel Gilbert

If you set goals for yourself, and you're like a lot of other people, you probably realize it's not that your goals are physically impossible that's keeping you from achieving them; it's that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them. It's physically possible to lose weight. It's physically possible to exercise more. Daniel Goldstein

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It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. Daniel Kahneman

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We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments. Daniel Kahneman

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