Boris Sidis Quotes

Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

Boris Sidis

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• Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Nothing
  • More

• Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Air

• I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • Good
  • Death

• I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Death
  • Wife
  • Wonder

• Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Children
  • Family

• If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Long
  • Relationship
  • See

• I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Man
  • Strength
  • Percent

• It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Style
  • Old
  • Loss

• I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Country
  • Proud
  • Attentions

• People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Money
  • Start

• As for myself, I was never against Russia.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Russia

• There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Cold

• Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Culture
  • Present
  • Grandmother

• For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Time
  • Death

• There are unfortunately not a few good professional physicists who still think about the world as if space and time had an absolute meaning.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Up
  • Universe

• A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.

  

  Bill McKibben
  • Future
  • Action
  • Spiritual

• I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.

  

  Kevin Crossley-Holland
  • Life
  • Great
  • Trying

• The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

  

  Jayne Ann Krentz
  • World
  • Long
  • Science

• Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder, I am all for therapies that will work. Positive psychology is another arrow in the quiver of public policy and psychology through which we can raise wellbeing above zero.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • Work
  • Positive
  • Stress

• Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Psychology
  • Processes
  • Uniformity