Psychological Quotes

Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or a psychological progression.

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.

My philosophy on what makeup is...it's very different from what a woman's is. Makeup came from a very psychological place - of the peacock.

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

I believe that to some degree there are situational and psychological laws of cause-and-effect, but I don't believe there's some Über-soul who doles out "justice."

In fact, I don’t believe I’m guilty of any crimes, but I’ve always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual, and psychological change, and there’s an erotic aspect to that.

a woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice.

Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that's very powerful stuff.

Most doctors are uncomfortable with medical conditions that have a psychological basis.

It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.

The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves.

Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.

Directing is much more psychological-it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between two and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.

Megan could have kissed him. If there weren't a million obstacles, both physical and psychological, in her way, of course.

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing.

The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?

Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.

You can't blame all people's psychological ills on religion. A lot of people were crazy before they got in a religion and they just happen to be crazy and religious.

A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type.

I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.

In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.

New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.

To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.

The psychological effects of having to hold a prospectless position for what might seem an infinite amount of time does nothing to aid the defender's concentration.

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if youve truly lived through it.

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

Singing is something you can do for a lifetime, and studies prove it is good for mental, physical, social and psychological health.

A Separation Cosmology produces a Separation Psychology, a psychological viewpoint that says that I am over here and you are over there.

Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and the resolve of those it attacks by creating a lose-lose situation.

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.

The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation