Edward Thorndike Quotes

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.

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• Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

  

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• Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

  

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• I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

  

  Jack Falahee
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• Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

  

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• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

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• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

  

  Manuel Puig
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• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

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• I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

  

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• I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

  

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• I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

  

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• You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

  

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• The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.

  

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• I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

  

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• You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

  

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• I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

  

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• A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.

  

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• Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
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• For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.

  

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• Hard paywalls will never work because, just like at a newsstand, the reader likes to browse the cover and a few articles before choosing to buy. Even if the material is truly unique, a consumer likes to try a little before buying.

  

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• Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit.

  

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• I went to private school for a very long time, and we always wore uniforms. Then in third grade, I switched to a public school, so I was so excited to wear what I wanted on the first day. I remember I chose this orange hoodie with a skirt, and it's so funny when I think about it now because my style really hasn't changed that much.

  

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• On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.

  

  Edward Thorndike
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