Read through the most famous quotes by topic #psych
Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins. ↗
Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions. ↗
Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first. ↗
The capacity for growth depends on one’s ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be "solved," then no change will occur. ↗
Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change. ↗
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Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led to the current situation. ↗
Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit loop into a permanent behavior. ↗
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