Psychology

“In my practice, I concentrated on public interest psychology.”

“We have the talent, our problem is attitude!”

“The factors to decide the winners and the losers lie inside us.”

“« La mémoire, telle que le sens commun l’entend et que la psychologie ordinaire la décrit, loin d’être la mémoire tout entière, n’en est qu’un cas particulier, le plus élevé et le plus complexe. »”

“I think the monster is always the truth, the thing we don’t want to face.”

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

“Human nature is not at fault.”

“Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

“Psychology should be conceived as the science of the self, or person, as related to its environment, physical and social.”

““Part of a large subconscious corpus of personal myth, like an island above the sea, but joined underwater to other islands.””

“The modern city with its multistory buildings ... have redirected ... the normal psychology of visual perception. It would seem that only the camera is capable of reflecting contemporary life.”

“Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.”

“Si queremos que la Psicología contribuya a la liberación de nuestros pueblos, tenemos que elaborar una Psicología de la liberación.”

“Among the mechanisms of personal agency, none is more central or pervasive than people's beliefs about their capabilities to exercise control over events that affect their lives.”

“I have no hesitation in saying that scientific management has hitherto consisted largely in the application of scientific methods to industry in the absence of psychological principles.”

“Humanistic psychology focuses on psychological health rather than on mental illness.”

“Among the mechanisms of human agency, none is more central or pervasive than people's beliefs in their efficacy to influence events that affect their lives.”

“J'aime bien fonctionner dans un climat de conflit pour éprouver la réaction des hommes.”