Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.

The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

They fired arrows at me, but I did not fire back. I picked them up instead to build my castle.

I've got one of the best health care teams out there as far as diabetes management.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

A pauper in the midst of wealth.

Remind me," he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, "to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja?

I think we're all born with a sense of humor. Creativity is another thing though.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

What lies at the end of the life path? The answer is simple: Nothing lies over there! That's why mankind must change the end of the road!

The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration.

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.