Quotes About Learned Helplessness

#1. Breaking, in modern psychology, 'learned helplessness.' This is where you crush an animal's desire to fight. Why is it that we believe broken things are tamed possessions?

Rebecca K. O'Connor

#2. Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#3. Psychologists call it "learned helplessness" when a person believes, as I did during my youth, that the choices I made had no effect on the outcomes in my life.

J.D. Vance

#4. Greeders who plunder and steal from their people - not only steal their supporters and their childrens' future, but they also smash their mindsets and create learned helplessness that ensures people stay small.

Tony Dovale

#5. Do you vote? If not, is it because you think it doesn't matter because things never change, or politicians are evil on both sides, or one vote in several million doesn't count? Yeah, that's learned helplessness.

David McRaney

#6. It seems as though we can no longer imagine anyone but a professional or an institution or a product supplying our daily needs or solving our problems. This learned helplessness is, of course, much to the advantage of the corporations eager to step forward and do all this work for us. One

Michael Pollan

#7. The more pessimistic your explanatory style, the easier it is to slip into learned helplessness.

David McRaney

#8. You can't forge a relationship with learned helplessness, you can only force one and it will always be tenuous. There is always the possibility the peregrine will rediscover the strength of his heart.

Rebecca K. O'Connor

#9. Effective Peer Coaches emphasize inquiry over advocacy. Too much advocacy can produce learned helplessness. Inquiry builds capacity to improve teaching and learning by helping teachers to be more effective at designing and implementing learning activities that meet the needs of their students.

Lester Joseph Foltos

#10. I grew up on all of the great spy movies and TV series of the Sixties - not just Bond, but Derek Flint and the Avengers and Modesty Blaise and the Man from UNCLE and on and on. Every time I sit down to work on Cinderella, I'm writing a love letter to all of those characters.

Chris Roberson

#11. How different everything is when you are with the right people!

Kate Greenaway

#12. Looking through this intimate window, readers have a choice about their own lives. Will they guard their own internal landscapes or lay themselves bare for others to see?

Damali Ayo

#13. Everyone secretly wants to be owned.

Alicen Grey

#14. It's philanthropy, but it's good politics, too. Mighty good politics. The poor are some of the most grateful people in the world. George Washington Plunkett.

H.W. Brands

#15. When you cried, I learned what helplessness tastes like. Because all I could do was swallow.

Penny Reid

#16. All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Noam Chomsky

#17. If you don't know my name and you don't know what movie I'm from, don't come ask for a picture while I'm trying to eat chipotle

Ansel Elgort

#18. After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe.

Terry Goodkind

#19. I love these words that just can't be translated from language to language. They seem dignified, grounded, battling against the imperialism of reality.

Olivier Magny

#20. In fact, if there was one thing Tabitha had learned from the weekend thus far, it was that people had all sorts of facades about them, covering tucked-away bits of badness and goodness. Fear and courage. Helplessness and hope.

Jessica Lawson

#21. Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.

Vance Havner