Psychology Quotes

Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.

When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.

I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car. I want to go inside Fred’s soul and play there.

I loved psychology and I loved history.

Interesting survey in the current Journal of Abnormal Psychology: New York City has a higher percentage of people you shouldn't make any sudden moves around than any other city in the world.

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

Now he's miserable and depressed.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.

There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.

At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life.

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics.

Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use.

Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life.

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

I've decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it's the right thing to do.

The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.

I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics and behavioral psychology.

Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.

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

I need to do psychology classes. That would be so interesting to me, studying people.

Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.

The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.

... on the right occasion a bold choice of opening can unnerve even the most steely opponent.

Marx's father became a Christian when Marx was a little boy, and some, at least, of the dogmas he must have then accepted seem to have born fruit in his son's psychology.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.

The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality. You're living the moment.

Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.

A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting.

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.

Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.

Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to know about the software.

First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major.

I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to the, obviously, the individual.

Bashful=Spanish, Miss Gardenia Doc=Psychology, Mr. Wang Happy=Chemistry 2, Mr. Durbin Dopey=English Lit., Mr. Purcell Dippy=Math, Mrs. Craig Dumbass=PE, Coach Crater

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.