Geoffrey Canada Quotes

There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.

Geoffrey Canada

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• There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

  

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• I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

  

  I. King Jordan
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• If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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• Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
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  • Learn
  • Psychology

• Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

  

  Abraham Maslow
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  • Idea
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• I studied psychology and sociology. I think my assumption was that I would go to graduate school, and I don't know what I was going to do after that.

  

  K. Flay
  • School
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• Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Women
  • College
  • Psychology

• Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.

  

  Barry Schwartz
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• Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Powerful
  • Army
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• As an industrial designer, you design the thing by yourself, and then it goes away from you, whereas fashion is in constant relation to the body and to psychology. It makes it more complicated, and it makes it more challenging.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Yourself

• Television has raised writing to a new low.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Writing
  • New
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• I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.

  

  Dane Cook
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• I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Science
  • Health
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• It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Psychology
  • Direction
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• Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.

  

  Kabir Bedi
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  • Theatre
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• I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.

  

  Chris Stapleton

• I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • Psychology