All Quotes

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.
‐‐ Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.
‐‐ Thomas Keating

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.
‐‐ James Hillman

Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.
‐‐ Irving Kirsch

PTSD has a terminal side to it that calls for more urgency.
‐‐ Romeo Dallaire

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
‐‐ Ottessa Moshfegh

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
‐‐ G. Stanley Hall

Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.
‐‐ Richard Simmons

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.
‐‐ Rick Springfield

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.
‐‐ Andrea Riseborough

Puberty was not kind to me. I had acne, eczema and had a stye in my eye, so it was quite hard to go in to somewhere where the majority were boys. At that age, they were quite vocal about what they thought of your looks.
‐‐ Sophie Wu

Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky little kid to looking different, and I was really bummed because I loved acting.
‐‐ Jeff Cohen

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
‐‐ Caitlin Flanagan

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.
‐‐ Paul Wolfowitz

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
‐‐ Kate Smith

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.
‐‐ Luigi Barzini

Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent.
‐‐ Nina Easton

Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
‐‐ Jack Nicklaus

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

Public confidence in, and support for, the euro - and, indeed, the European Union - will ultimately be determined by how well we deliver on growth and jobs rather than on institutional wrangling and complex legal or technical negotiations.
‐‐ Enda Kenny

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy.
‐‐ James Comey

Public crucifixion is no fun.
‐‐ Peter O'Toole

Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.
‐‐ Jim Leach

Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it's all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it's about profit, jobs and competitive advantage.
‐‐ Amory Lovins

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.
‐‐ Michael E. Mann

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.
‐‐ Edward Tufte

Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.
‐‐ Jane Velez-Mitchell

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
‐‐ Nancy Pearcey

Public education is an investment in our future.
‐‐ Matt Blunt

Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.
‐‐ Jeb Bush

Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.
‐‐ Mercy Otis Warren

Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bogeymen, responsible for problems that have myriad causes. Not all government workers receive generous pensions, they note.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Public employees contribute real value for the benefit of all citizens. Public-union bosses collect real money from all taxpayers for the benefit of a few.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.
‐‐ Robert Reich

Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.
‐‐ Chuck D

Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.
‐‐ Aubrey de Grey

Public fear isn't something to be played with.
‐‐ Robert Reich

Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
‐‐ Jack Welch

Public health and safety are my highest priorities.
‐‐ Kate Brown

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
‐‐ Carolyn McCarthy

Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
‐‐ Kate Reardon

Public influence is the real government of the world.
‐‐ Josiah Warren

Public institutions are supported by all taxpayers and are available to all.
‐‐ Robert Reich

Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.
‐‐ Roxane Gay