Psychology Quotes

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

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

Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.

The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

Life can show up no other way than that way in which you perceive it.

Psychologically, the choice of an appropriate opening is of the utmost importance for a player's success in a tournament.

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position.

I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated, I made a losing mistake.

Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane.

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

I'd say I dream in Esperanto. Sometimes I remember some dreams in another language, but dreaming in languages no, but figures yes, my psychology is this way.

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

Guilt is the mafia of the mind.

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.