Maladaptive Quotes

#1. An explosive outburst - like other forms of maladaptive behavior - occurs when the cognitive demands being placed upon a person outstrip that person's capacity to respond adaptively.

Ross W. Greene

#2. While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its problems. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us unwilling to criticize ideas that are increasingly maladaptive and patently ridiculous.

Sam Harris

#3. No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.

Terence McKenna

#4. Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#5. Aspects of culture can also be described as vestigial, where once-adaptive cultural adaptations become maladaptive when environments change.

Anonymous

#6. Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children and these childhood wounds causes a laundry list of maladaptive behaviors commonly called codependency. These habits restrict people to love-limiting relationships causing much unhappiness and distress.

David W. Earle

#7. If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.

David W. Earle

#8. So next time you hear a raving demagogue counseling hatred for other, slightly different groups of humans, for a moment at least see if you can understand his problem: He is heeding an ancient call that - however dangerous, obsolete, and maladaptive it may be today - once benefitted our species.

Carl Sagan

#9. The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality..

Terence McKenna

#10. Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

Peter Meinke

#11. When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

Frank James

#12. What's the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

Gary Keller

#13. We didn't kiss. We fought. We poured everything we couldn't say into one timeless action.

Pepper Winters

#14. A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

Jacques Monod

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#16. I asked myself, 'What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are you going to do what's right?' I just made a decision. I said, 'It's time to grow up. It's time to start living for the Lord, do things the right way.' I accepted the Lord, and it changed my life.

Luke Scott

#17. I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother ... Mother was well composed, a true Lutheran, and taught me to Cheer up, Make yourself useful, Mind your manners, and above all, Don't feel sorry for yourself.

Garrison Keillor