I suppose for a very long time I've been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.
If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?
To master a new technology, you have to play with it.
Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.
I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'
One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women!
I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.
My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.
I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree.
We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.
It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.
It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp.
The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.
I like working-class people, generally speaking.