American - Psychologist | November 11, 1897 - October 9, 1967
Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.
Gordon W. Allport
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Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.
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A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.
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We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
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Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?
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So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
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The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.
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The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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