Famous quotes by Psychologists

"The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it!"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"If you never change your mind, why have one?"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting!"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect!"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"Hope never abandons you, you abandon it"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple!"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"There is no universal coming out process, so far as I know"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"Homophobia is just that: a phobia"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"People should realize we're jerks just like them"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"To be successful, you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"But the cure for most obstacles is, be decisive"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

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