Quotes of: Abraham-lincoln Keyword

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

Laurence J. Peter

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

Laurence J. Peter

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Laurence J. Peter

Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.

Rollo May

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Very exceeding wonderful is the history concerning Abraham, for the kingdom of Christ is therein wholly represented.

Jakob Bohme

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

G. Stanley Hall

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

Jonathan Haidt

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

Albert Bandura

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.

Edward Thorndike

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

Edward Thorndike

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

Edward Thorndike

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

Philip Zimbardo

There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.

Tara Brach

Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them.

David Novak

Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.

David Novak

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

Daniel Starch

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

David Seabury

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

William Glasser

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

Ram Dass