David Levy
American psychologist, professor, author, stage director and actor.
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Insight is the booby prize of life.
I used to fear that taking medication would change my personality; now I fear that it won’t.
Facts are like kryptonite to teenagers.
When it’s bad, I get depressed; when it’s good, I get nervous.
Winning isn’t as fun as losing is miserable.
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
To be neurotic is to spend one’s life perpetually replacing one worry with the next.
To the optimist, pessimists are neurotic; to the pessimist, optimists are deluded.
When a psychoanalyst takes on the role of a blank screen, all he really learns is how the patient responds to people who try to act like they’re a blank screen.
Social psychology is the scientific study of the obvious, which invariably leads to conflicting results.
Levy’s style combines erudition with simplicity and earnestness with humor. The result is clear and compelling, accessible to lay persons and mental health professionals alike.
Intuition is usually the first word, and is sometimes the last word, but should never be the only word.
The human capacity for denial and rationalization is always shocking, but never surprising.
There are two types of people in this world — those who think that there are two types of people in this world, and those who don’t.
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