David Seabury
David Seabury
David Seaburywas an American psychologist, author, and lecturer. While practicing as a consulting psychologist in New York City, he published fifteen books. He founded the Centralist School of Psychology, was the founder and president of the David Seabury School of Psychology, and was president of the Seabury University of Adult Education. In 1923 he married feminist journalist Florence Guy Woolston...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
CountryUnited States of America
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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.
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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
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Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
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Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...
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No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
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A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
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Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.
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The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.
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Those who fume at their problems become their victims.
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Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.
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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons...
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Tell a man something is bad, and he's not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it's the better part of caution to listen.
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Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
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He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.