Thought is at the bottom of all progress or retrogression, of all success or failure, of all that is desirable or undesirable in human life.
Some are habits of a desirable nature; some are those of a most undesirable nature.
Murder can be and many times is committed in this way, the same as all undesirablethings are done.
Freud himself agrees that his sexual theories apply to all mankind and that the psychoneurotic differs from others in not being able to successfully and completely repress or sublimate the undesirable sexual trends.
And so, many undesirable and inferior kinds of mental trends come forth and hold sway.
These people are polygamous and as it is the custom for the old men to marry young girls, thus leaving the old women to the younger men, which in many instances causes a scarcity of women, it leaves a somewhat undesirable condition.
Coriat that the stammering arises as a defense or compensation mechanism, the object of which is to keep from consciousness certain painful memories and undesirable thoughts, in order that they may not be betrayed in speech.
In the tic we see a method by which the individual or organic personality has met a certain difficult or undesirable or disturbing situation.
Am I so undesirable that it would never cross her mind that a man might fall in love with me?
I must get her away from this attractive but undesirable young man!
The rule for breaking undesirable habits is this: Cultivate the opposite habit.
Even to those who have not the persistency to apply this truth fully, there will be a partial reward if they will use it to the extent of restraining so far as possible any undue physical expression of undesirable emotional excitement.
If we dislike a person or thing we are usually able to perceive no end of undesirable things in him or it; while if we are favorably inclined we easily find many admirable qualities in the same person or thing.
The movement may be Progress, or it may be in an undesirable direction and therefore not Progress.
But such convulsions are an undesirable method of progressing; how can they be avoided?
If humanity had been left to go its own way it would have drifted to a highly undesirable port, and all men would have incurred the fate of everlasting misery from which supernatural interference rescued the minority.
If it is injurious, does it not follow that the forces on which admittedly Progress depends are leading in an undesirable direction?
How are we, or to come closer to the point, how is the average juryman going to distinguish between these three things; between advisable knowledge and corruptingly presented knowledge, and unnecessary and undesirable knowledge?
Everything would converge to convince these people that to bear children into such an unfavourable atmosphere is an extremely inconvenient and undesirable thing.
I must confess that a lot of the science teaching that appears in schools nowadays impresses me as being a very undesirable encumbrance of the curriculum.
Mr. Stuart Menteath remarks apropos of this question of the reproduction of exceptional people that it is undesirable to suggest voluntary extinction in any case.
It has a tendency to produce a dull, undesirable appearance.
It is just asundesirable to have it too thin as too thick.
Those who made this course have mastered the undesirable eccentricities of the rubber-cored ball as few others have done.
Gorse and rocks may have to be cleared, and it is essential that at this stage an effort should be made to rid the course of rabbits and other undesirablevermin if any should infest it.
The effect was brilliant, but quite undesirable from our point of view.
To record in these pages the local of all the gangs that were stationed in this manner upon the seaboard of the kingdom would be as undesirable as it is foreign to the scope of this chapter.
The close personal proximity of the sexes is greatly undesirable before marriage.
To be alone in a big hotel, without maid or chaperon, herself caught up in this web of mystery which Louis and those others seemed to have woven around her, was in itself undesirable and unnatural.
He strongly suspected that nothing undesirable would take place.
While this undesirablesituation was being demonstrated, Jill slept heavily between two roots of a very large tree, and Lockley dozed against a nearby tree trunk.
His mother, Catherine Kepler, had attained undesirable notoriety by the suspicion that she was guilty of witchcraft.
It would seem that Galileo regarded his residence at Padua as a state of undesirable exile from his beloved Tuscany.
In seedling plantings, all trees that produce inferior nuts should be removed in order to avoid danger of undesirable pollen influence, either on nut characters, or on the genetic makeup of the embryos if the nuts are to be used as seed.
Planting nuts with the radicle end down invariably produced seedlings with undesirablecrooks in the root-stem region which made them unsuitable for grafting.
This implied some risk, as there were matters connected with the mine which Leonard preferred to conceal, but it was unlikely that Andrew would make any undesirable discovery.
You are new to these matters, and don't realize how undesirable it is that we should make our troubles public.
A brawl with Carnally could lead to no useful result, and it would attract undesirable attention.
Had Michael told you that Oswald received an undesirable discharge from the Marine Corps?
I might have hugged my griefs and have grown embittered; but my worst mistake was the desire to 'drown sorrow' with drink, with cards, with all the undesirable vices of men.
Hurlburt rapidly spent his ill-gotten gains in drink, and for many years bore a most undesirable reputation.
Specialists" in sex education are undesirableas teachers of boys and girls, in or out of school.
The public skating-rink is fairly free from objectionable features, but boys and girls attending without proper chaperons often form undesirable acquaintances.
Requiring permission may be regarded as an assumption that the talk is questionable; and, furthermore, the requiring of special permission is likely to create an undesirable attitude on the part of the boy.
The amusement parks present almost unlimited possibilities for the formation of undesirable acquaintances.
The city becomes the mecca for undesirable men and women who prey upon the susceptibilities of the people, animated by the festival spirit.
A child may ask a question prematurely, or at a time when the parent finds it impossible to answer in such a way as to make the desired impression or to avoid the undesirable impression.
Moreover, it would probably secure a maximum of effect with a minimum of property manipulation; always an undesirable consideration in practical politics.
The mestizo class is now large enough, and the problems which its existence presents are grave enough, to render undesirable its further growth.
There are certain undesirable characteristics which are common to a large majority of the people correctly designated as Filipinos.
The laws of India were at that time inadequate to punish them, but an old statute was found under which the Viceroy could deport undesirable aliens.
To free one's self from an undesirable habit, therefore, the great essential is to avoid resolutely, for a reasonable time, any recurrence of the banned habit.
He will thus substitute another means of expression for the present undesirable means.
Since certain of our emotions, such as anger and fear, are, in general, undesirable states of feeling, a question arises how such emotions may be prevented.
In other cases, the removal of stimuli, or conditions, for awaking the instinctive tendency will be found effective in checking the development of an undesirable instinct into a habit.
This means that we become able to contrast a present feeling with other remembered states, and seek either to continue the present desired state or to substitute another for the present undesirable feeling.
