The Study of Psychology:  Much More Simply Human Than Otherwise*
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as
one goes on.  Samuel Butler
Hey, this meditation stuff really works.  I am visualizing the fish jumping
right into my mouth, I am perfectly relaxed and don't have to do a thing.
Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to
its original dimensions.  Oliver Wendell Holmes
You cannot depend on your eyes when your
imagination is out of focus.  Mark Twain
Zago, zagas, zagat.  
(I'll be sure to recommend this place to my friends)
If you smile when no
one else is around,
you really mean it.  
Andy Rooney
The buffalo isn't as dangerous as
many have thought.  It has been
proven that in the United States more
Americans are killed in automobile
accidents than are killed by buffalo.  
Art Buchwald
Tu causa Es Cur Liberi Nostri Tam Turpiculi Sint

(You're the reason our kids are so ugly)
We've sent a man to the moon, and that's 29,000 miles
away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles
away. You could drive that in a week, but for some
reason nobody's ever done it.  Andy Rooney
A gene can be
either dominant
or recessive,
depending on
which type of
gene it is.  
Dave Barry
Ways to Manage Your Stress More Effectively than Anyone Imagined Possible
1.    Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."
2.    Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of
"Beeeep Bip Bip Beeep Bip..."
3.    If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.
4.    Amuse yourself for endless hours by hooking a camcorder to your TV and then pointing it at
the screen.  
5.    Speak only in a "robot" voice.
6.    Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly.
7.    Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one
will "swipe your grub".
8.    Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 98 copies.
9.    Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.
10.  Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles.
11.  Name your dog "Dog."
12.  Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep
them tuned up."
13.  Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think."
14.  Claim that you must always wear a bicycle helmet as part of your "astronaut training."
15.  Declare your apartment an independent nation, and sue your neighbors upstairs for
"violating your airspace".
16.  Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a "real hoot."
17.  Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc:" them to your boss.
18.  Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
19.  Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the
appearance of ignorance.
20.  Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with the prophesy."
21.  Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences, producing awkward silences with
the impression that you'll be saying more any moment.
22.  Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI copyright warnings.
Borrowed from an anonymous article entitled, “101 Ways to Annoy People.”
"Every man is guilty of all the good he
did not do."  Voltaire
"Be yourself;
everyone else is
already taken."
Oscar Wilde
Cow Taming
The Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki wrote: “To give your sheep or
cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.” In
other words, the more we try to clamp down on our awareness
and force it in a particular direction, the more resistance we get.
But if we give our thoughts and feelings plenty of space to romp
around in, they begin to tire themselves out and settle down, all
on their own. In practical terms, when you sit down to meditate,
say something to yourself like, “I welcome all that I am into this
sacred space.” Sometimes this is not easy.
Counter
Harry Stack Sullivan wrote:  "Man is much more simply human than otherwise."
In understanding what I am trying to say you will have to discard the notion that it is something you have known all the time, which
just happened to get well formulated by me. We are really up against one of the most difficult of human performances -- organizing
thought about oneself and others, not on the basis of the unique individual me that is perhaps one's most valuable possession, but on the
basis of one's common humanity.
Always do what you are afraid to do.  
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is
no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a child I was much more afraid of shots,
than, for example, dracula.  Dave Barry
This is Bear, a Staffordshire terrier (AKA pit bull). One of
the  funniest, smartest, and most affectionate dogs your
professor ever encountered. Use your critical thinking skills
to reflect on why this is considered the most dangerous
breed of dog in the United States.
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