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Lawrence K. Frank Quotes

1890–1968 United States

Lawrence (Larry) Kelso Frank (December 6, 1890 – September 23, 1968) was an American economist and social scientist, administrator, and parent educator, known with Frank Fremont-Smith as initiator of the Macy conferences, which helped shape the foundations for the field of cybernetics.

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The most important things about the individual are what he cannot or will not say.

Projective methods for the study of personality (1939)

A policy therefor might be likened to strategy, the broad, overall, long term conception which gives direction and purpose to the tactics of immediately daily operations and decisions.

National Policy for the Family (1948)

Past and future are but two aspects of behavior, the past being the persistent modifications in the behaving organism, and the future the controlling direction or pattern imposed upon the unfolding behavior according to those persistent modifications.

Lawrence Kelso Frank (1948)

We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.

Nature and human nature (1951)

When we scrutinize the actual procedures that may be called projective methods we find a wide variety of techniques and material being employed for the same general purpose, to obtain from the subject 'what he cannot or will not say,' frequently because he does not know himself and is not aware what he is revealing about himself through his projections.

Projective methods for the study of personality (1939)

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