Psychological Quotes

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is someway.

When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.

It's highly psychological, and very beautiful, and overwhelming, and real, and trippy!

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.

Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.

Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

No psychological grid works, because if you try to place every personality in one particular grid then you'd need about 4 billion grids because we are all so unique.

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

It is very important to learn to weigh up objectively (or assess intuitively) the totality of the competitive and psychological factors.

The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.

I can't see any hope but a second front. The psychological effect would be great, even if they could not wade all the way to Berlin in 15 to 20 minutes.

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

Psychological adulthood is by no means a universal attainment.

People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.

I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.

You can wear your hair long or wear a beard because you want to show that you are interested in thought, in psychological endeavors rather than appearance.

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character

Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.

I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution.

I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.

The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. It creates a lot of anger and emotional hardship. People may become quite depressed.

Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it

Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations in the physical world rather than the psychological one.

It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad masses of its adherents.

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense - there's a kind of soul-murder going on.

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.