I happen to resent even the assumption that there are people who have the authority to keep me busy. Though no man can draw a stroke between the confines of day and night, yet light and darkness are upon the whole tolerably distinguishable. J. William Dawson. Psychology, or at least American psychology, is a second rate discipline. The main reason is that it does not stand in awe of its subject matter.
Psychologists have too little respect for psychology.
There is a pleasing excitement in having to lecture tomorrow on a period of history which I have not heard of till today. . . . Henry Adams on teaching history with a high course load. For a long while our normality struck me as tragic, the withering of wondrous flowers that should have been allowed to bloom. But that was youthful ego. Neil Steinberg, Complete and Utter Failure .