Psychology Quotes

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

Excuses are like rear ends. Everybody has one and they stink.

Earl gave me his version of what happened and asked me not to suspend the umpires.

As an advice columnist, I spend a lot of time reading through psychology journals to ensure that I give the most up-to-date advice.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there.

Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.

We set the table, but no one ate.

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

The most talented people are always the nicest.

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

I study English literature but my friends are doing psychology and things like that. No one cares about acting there. It's not competitive and it's a nice environment for me.

The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.

Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

The best way to deal with somebody is to deal with yourself.

I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist.

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?

Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

The effects of Twitter and Facebook and all those things on people's psychologies is a really interesting question to which nobody knows the answer.

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be.

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.

According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.

Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.

When I went to college I knew what I wanted to study, and what career I wanted to pursue. I wanted to study psychology in order to become a clinical psychologist.

Children?have no use for psychology.