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Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time. -- Alice Miller
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills -- Albert Bandura
Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one. -- Leonard Mlodinow
The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression. The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration. The Right Person in the Wrong Place = Confusion. The Right Person in the Right Place = Progression. The Right People in the Right Places = Multiplication. -- John C. Maxwell
If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature. -- Noam Chomsky
Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression. -- Noam Chomsky
Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean. -- Charlie Munger
It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery. -- Richard John Neuhaus
To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth. -- Connie Zweig
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end. -- John Cleese
But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression -- Hjalmar Branting
I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts. -- Richard Schmid
I really did Regression to work with Alejandro [Amenabar]. I found him very interesting. His movie, The Others, is one of the better scary movies of the last period of time. -- Ethan Hawke
Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise! -- Christopher Hitchens
Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression -- Gilles Deleuze
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America. -- Florence King
Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the economy, is an historical regression. In it there is no more future for the public, or for the freedoms it supported, than there was under feudalism. -- Robert Higgs
Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative silence blurs and confuses our identity, and we lapse into daydreams or diffuse anxieties. Positive silence pulls us together and makes us realize who we are, who we might be, and the distance between these two. -- Thomas Merton
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide -- Alan Watts
When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started. -- Henri Nouwen
There is bound to be a regression toward the mean. -- Charlie Munger
But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression. -- Hjalmar Branting
Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression. -- Noel Gallagher
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism. -- Rosa Luxemburg
We stand the risk of regression, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks. -- Sunday Adelaja
Donald Trump as a figurehead is the opposite of that - he's regression, he's taking a step backward. -- Ansel Elgort
A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits. -- Franz Grillparzer
Progression and regression go hand in hand with mental health. It is a tough illness. You often take one step forward and ten steps back. -- Theresa Larsen
We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it. -- Gary Smith

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