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psychology mind abnormal
Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all? Carrie Fisher
psychology independence metaphor
Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition. Carl Sagan
psychology fiction use
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology . Bill Vaughan
psychology disease cures
Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure. Bertrand Russell
psychology important understood
Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood. David Dreman
psychology culture break
It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business. Antonis Samaras
psychology said cases
There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. Carl Jung
psychology terror refuge
Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror
psychology individual mass
The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual
fiction heard legal people seen
People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology. Ruth Ozeki
fiction generally nonfiction spend time
Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy. Peter Morgan
fiction lives nature quite since stuff wonder writers
I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up! Julia Glass
fictional finally fits history politics return totally
I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts. David Guterson
fiction fictional future science sure tools
When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions. Paolo Bacigalupi
fiction hard tendency weakness
I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time. Sarah Dessen
fiction overall
I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery. Shaun Cassidy
fiction type inferiors
There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them. David Morrell
fiction plausible
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction David Mitchell
useless adaptability term
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless. Bill Bryson
use want might
If Facebook gets your entire social graph, you don't necessarily want to share everything with your entire social graph. You might wanna parse that social graph. So there's a company called PASS that is a private social network that I personally use for my friends and my family. Ashton Kutcher
use instruments creator
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. Antoine Lavoisier
use professional-competence philosopher
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.
useful
That was a very useful thing, and is something that was very much appreciated. Ken Leavitt
use retiring
I never use that word, retire. B. B. King
use fuel feels
When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it. Diane von Furstenberg
use fronts
You don't have to just do what's planned, you can take what's immediately in front of you and use that. Dexter Fletcher
used composer stills
Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe. Dhani Harrison