All Quotes By Tag: Psychology

“Self-Justification Obscures The Voice of Truth”

“Redress your words when you don’t have them and make your words truthful when you speak.”

“Sometimes we can’t find our future until we settle our past.”

“I no longer exist, while those who exist never did something to exist. I no longer exist because I was killed inside.”

“An entire life, lavishly colored with ecstasies and agonies, is exclusively born from the functional expression of neurochemistry. Every time that we sob in sorrow or laugh in joy, we do so, steered by a glorious storm of hormonal interplay within the deepest parts of our mind. And with each drop of tear that we shed in our times of excruciating pain, our brain constructs majestic new cellular connections to aid in the pursuit of our passion – in the pursuit of truth.”

“Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.”

“I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out…”

“Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.”

“I am reliably unreliable.”

“Research is an endless loop of failures interspersed with occasional profound discoveries.”

“The stories of successful channels, stifling ruts, and missed paths all point to the same conclusion: the successful passage from school to postschool achievement requires an interpersonal process of increasing self-understanding, career socialization, and tacit knowledge.”

“College bonds weakened for students of who lived off campus, took outside employment, and maintained active family commitments. Unskilled in navigating the university, these students were unlikely to enter the personal networks where insiders traded the practical information they desperately needed.”

“For minority students, as for women and working-class white valedictorians, superior college grades did not lead smoothly to high-level satisfying work.”

“Male valedictorians attended Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, and Stanford. Only one woman chose an Ivy League university-Cornell.”

“Women—and only women—lowered their intellectual self-esteem between high school graduation and sophomore year of college.”