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To cope with this difficulty [of limited capacity], even a mechanical recognition system must have some way to select portions of the incoming information for detailed analysis.
Ulric Neisser
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Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
Wilhelm Dilthey
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Of all our basic virtues, courage is the one that helps us to live exactly the way we want and provides the psychological fuel we need to create, take risks, help others, and face hard times... Courageous action is humanity at its finest.
Robert Biswas-Diener
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Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.
Joyce Brothers
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Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.
Nathaniel Branden
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Kids want nothing more than for all the important adults in their life to get along.
Harriet Lerner
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I know that you know but you do not know that you really do not know - know yourself. Look within and get to know yourself better.
Amit Abraham
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The administrative function comes easily to conservatives for the principal requirement of administration is unquestioning conformity to the standards embodied by the particular institution.
Paul Pigors
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In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.
Elizabeth Loftus
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If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU...
Robert Holden (author)
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In the integrated relational model presented here, sexuality and relational issues are not seen as alternative foci. Rather, sexuality is regarded as a central realm in which relational conflicts are shaped and played out.
Stephen A. Mitchell
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Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they have specialized, are just as ordinary, pigheaded and unreasonable as anybody else.
Hans Eysenck
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Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves in materialist science, for example or in absolutist religious positions; or by locking ourselves into systems, whether corporate, familial, or consumerist; or by stupefying ourselves with drugs.
Kirk J. Schneider
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We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.
Ellen Langer
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Personal causality, refers to instances in which p causes x intentionally. That is to say, the action is purposive.
Fritz Heider
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Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall. Life would be intolerable - no hope, no challenge
Robyn Dawes
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If we went into stores only when we needed to buy something, and if once there we bought only what we needed, the economy would collapse, boom.
Paco Underhill
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Causation depends on an extraordinary turning of reality at a particular instant such that one event transmutes into another.
David R. Heise
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Social psychology is the scientific study of the obvious, which invariably leads to conflicting results.
David Levy
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In principle, it might be possible to obtain evidence of focal-attentive processing in the absence of awareness of what is being processed... in practice, however, a complete dissociation of consciousness from focal-attentive processing is difficult to achieve.
Max Velmans
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Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.
Amos Tversky
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A fulfilling sex life is one of the most powerful marital glues a couple can have.
Kevin Leman
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Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer... when you read like a reader, you identify with the characters in the story. The story is what you learn about. When you read like a writer, you identify with the author and learn about writing.
Frank Smith (psycholinguist)
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When you notice an unhelpful emotion or a shift in mood, or when you notice that you're doing something you know can cause problems (being snappy, for example, or drinking too much), that could act as a cue to examine your own thoughts - "what am I thinking?".
Peter Kinderman
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Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.
Haim Ginott
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