B. F. Skinner
Psychologist, Behaviorist
"A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment."
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Kevin Gates
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?"
Marguerite Duras
Writer, Filmmaker
"Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God."
Alexander McQueen
Fashion Designer
"It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense."
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"A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self."
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"Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition."
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"The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state."
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"Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation."
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"Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for."
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"There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself."
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"Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish."
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"She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care."
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"Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well."
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"Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life."
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"Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security."
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"I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is someway."
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"Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all."
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"Psychological knowledge has made us dull."
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"The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development."
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"The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds."
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"The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's."
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"public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self."
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"So food is important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. The more chemicals that are in our food and the more outside of the way it is intended by nature, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of."
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"Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up."
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