psychology

When people think about a placebo such as the royal touch, they usually dismiss it as "just psychology." But, there is nothing "just" about the power of a placebo, and in reality it represents the amazing way our mind controls our body.

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don't ever want to be again. Everything we do is part of who we are. How we choose to use those memories, to motivate or to submit is entirely up to us.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

Id me didn't have to be concerned with long-term consequences. He was my instinctive, primitive self, driven by my most primal impulses. I wondered, briefly, if 'id' and 'idiot' came from the same root.

It is not how much money or luxury you avail a child that counts, but how well you nurture and raise the child to become useful, and a more productive individual in the society that matters

My job is to assist you in finding the answer that is right for you. Not the answer that would be right for me.

There are many legal and psychological ramifications to using Krav Maga in the real world and nearly all of them are extremely unpleasant.

There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.

Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.

It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.

I have never been sad because my losses are my profits

Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate

What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard to succeed?

How often _ I continue reflecting _ is it that we see what we want to see, rather than what is really before our eyes. In the trade we call this confirmation bias, and our brains are riddled with it. We take a position on something and thereafter only see whatever confirms that position, ignoring all evidence to the contrary.