Sigmund Freud Quotes

There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.

Sigmund Freud

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• SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

  

  Gary Wolf
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• I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Want
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• I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don't have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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• My husband and I vowed that after we married and settled down, we would become foster parents - a vow we kept and one that has enriched our lives greatly.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Parents
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• Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • May
  • Small
  • Control

• Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Up
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• Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.

  

  Albert Claude
  • May
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• If you're a better scorer than me, I'll put you down on the block; you score. I don't care. I can do other things.

  

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• The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.

  

  Paul Tudor Jones
  • Knowledge
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• You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • War
  • Die

• Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.

  

  Don Rickles
  • God
  • Friends
  • Boy

• There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.

  

  Marc Ostrofsky
  • Opportunity
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• Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.

  

  Janet Maslin
  • Vampire
  • Bubbles

• We need Congress to do more than just engage in partisan games.

  

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• If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • God
  • Die

• I think we are living in an age where we really need to have bilingual leaders so that we can communicate with our constituents.

  

  Aja Brown
  • Age

• One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Business

• The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Strong
  • Destiny
  • Virtuous

• Junk runs in the family. My granddad was a junk man in St. Louis and so was my uncle.

  

  Redd Foxx
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• Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. (Nathan to Nat)

  

  Catherine Ryan Hyde
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• To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Tendencies
  • Suppress
  • Humanity's