(158 quotes found)
“Too many of the findings that have been made in animals have been proven to be true for animals, but not for the human being. There is no reason whatsoever why we should start with animals in order to study human motivation.”
Abraham Maslow
“My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships.”
Carol Gilligan
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
“We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves”
“Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.”
Albert Bandura
“Behavior, cognitive, and other personal factors, and environmental influences all operate interactively as determinants of each other.”
“I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.”
“The great lesson from the true mystics is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, and in one's backyard.”
“If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.”
“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.”
