Biographies Featured in the Psychoanalytic Perspective

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. "
• "Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness. "
• "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
• "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
• "One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it."
• "The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."

Georgia O'Keeffe

• "I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty."
• "Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time."

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Biographies Featured in the Psychoanalytic-Social Perspective

Kurt Cobain

• "The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head." [in the song "Stay Away"]

Marilyn Monroe

• "I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.'"
• "A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing."

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Biographies Featured in the Trait Perspective

Mother Teresa

• "It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."
• "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."
• "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. "
• "There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread."
• "Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go."
• "The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."
• "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."

Albert Einstein

• "One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."

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Biographies Featured in the Learning Perspective

Tiger Woods

• "I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love."
• "I am the toughest golfer mentally."
• "I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win."

Eleanor Roosevelt

• "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

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Biographies Featured in the Cognitive Social Learning Perspective

Richard Nixon

• "If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."
• "Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time."
• "You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job."
• "There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing."
• "The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker."
• "I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-rate power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history."
• "I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get..."
• "When the president does it, that means it is not illegal."
• "A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits."
• "By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing."
• "Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral."
• Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."

Frida Kahlo

• "I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."
• "I cannot speak of Diego as my husband because that term, when applied to him, is an absurdity. He never has been, nor will he ever be, anybody’s husband."
• "I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."
• "My painting carries with it the message of pain."
• "Painting completed my life."

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Biographies Featured in the Humanistic Perspective

Maya Angelou

• "A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
• "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
• "If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."
• "Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear."
• "One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."
• "Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns all clean."
• "Effective action is always unjust."
• "We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we’re capable of – to explain the pains and glory of our existence."
• "There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth."
• "Achievement brings its own anticlimax."
• "It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."

David Pelzer

• "Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time. "

SOURCES:

• http://www.worldofquotes.com
• http://womenshistory.about.com
• http://www.bartleby.com

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