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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
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“Instead of describing ADD as an inability to concentrate, this model presents it as the ability to concentrate on everything. The world always is alive and ripe with sources of interest.”
― Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
― Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
“As a doctor I constantly have to ask myself what kind of message the patient is bringing me. What does he mean to me? If he means nothing, I have no point of attack. The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. 'Only the wounded physician heals.' But when the doctor wears his personality like a coat of armor, he has no effect.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Psychology and Alchemy
― Psychology and Alchemy
“The purpose of all of this (left hemisphere's way of choosing denial or repression over considering an anomaly) is to impose stability on behavior and to prevent vacillation because indecisiveness doesn't serve any purpose. Any decision, so long as it is probably correct, is better than no decision at all. A perpetually fickle general will never win a war.”
― Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
― Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
Tara’s 2025 Year in Books
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