#psychology

Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that dinner with friends as a business expense? Will you be honest with your daughter? Will you take more credit than you’re due? These are just the small questions that we face every day, and little by little, the answers influence the trajectory of our lives and beings. ↗

— Donald Van de Mark

#ethics #inspirational #inspirational-success-failure #leadership #life-purpose

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#acting #acting class #anthropology #class #courses

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history ↗

— Herman Ebbinghaus

#psychology #inspirational

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#religion

A therapist who rushes to help forgets to listen. ↗

— Noam Shpancer

#psychology #inspirational

The choice in this life is not between easy and hard, but between kinds of hardship, between a hardship that gives birth to wisdom, compassion and mercy, and the hardship that keeps on replicating itself to no end. ↗

— Noam Shpancer

#life #psychology #inspirational

Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dictatorship #kim-il-sung #north-korea #psychology #subordination

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see. ↗

— Criss Jami

#afraid #change #cognition #experimentation #eyes

I defend the authority of women and explore its meaning for them rather than assume they need to be more accommodating or sensitive. ↗

— David Bedrick

#dr-phil #love-based-psychology #women #women-s-history-month #women-s-rights

A love-based psychology views social prejudice as impacting people's well-being, and the promotion of social justice as an important psychological intervention. ↗

— David Bedrick

#dr-phil #love #love-based-psychology #phillip-mcgraw #love