Psychological famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.
-- Albert Bandura -
We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.
-- Alice Cooper -
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
-- Allan Bloom -
Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
-- Allen Tate -
Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.
-- Andrew Pyper -
The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.
-- Anthony Giddens -
Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear so obvious.
-- Arthur Koestler -
Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.
-- Asne Seierstad -
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.
-- Ayrton Senna -
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
-- B. F. Skinner -
If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine.
-- Bikram Choudhury -
A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.
-- Carl Jung -
You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside.
-- Cheryl Tiegs -
If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.
-- Chris Prentiss -
I am very concerned about the environment and psychological health of this beautiful planet.
-- Cornel Wilde -
There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.
-- Daniel Goleman -
You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.
-- David Einhorn -
Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.
-- David Icke -
A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
-- Dieter Rams -
The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.
-- Donald Knuth -
Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.
-- Eamonn Coghlan -
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.
-- Edward Sapir -
After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
-- Emmanuelle Beart -
You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.
-- Eriq La Salle -
Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.
-- Florence King -
Psychological adulthood is by no means a universal attainment.
-- Frances G. Wickes -
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.
-- Gene Wolfe -
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
-- Georg Simmel -
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
-- George H. Mead -
Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.
-- Guillaume Canet -
Niceness is the psychological armor of the people-pleaser.
-- Harriet B. Braiker -
for many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.
-- Helene Deutsch -
Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.
-- Ibn Khaldun -
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.
-- Isaac Asimov -
The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.
-- Italo Calvino -
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
-- Jack Abbott -
What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.
-- James Boswell -
A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.
-- James Rachels -
The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
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.
-- Joanne Harris -
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.
-- Joe Queenan -
Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.
-- John Paul Caponigro -
The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.
-- Julian Jaynes -
Megan could have kissed him. If there weren't a million obstacles, both physical and psychological, in her way, of course.
-- Kate Brian -
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
-- Keith Henson -
British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
-- Lee Child -
Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics...
-- Loren Mosher -
Freedom of the will is a psychological fiction.
-- Louis Berkhof -
Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.
-- Luc Montagnier -
And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.
-- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.
-- Marguerite Duras -
It is very important to learn to weigh up objectively (or assess intuitively) the totality of the competitive and psychological factors.
-- Mark Dvoretsky -
Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.
-- Mary Blakely -
I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.
-- Mary Karr -
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
-- Maxwell Maltz -
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.
-- Mika Brzezinski -
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.
-- Mike Figgis -
Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position.
-- Mikhail Tal -
All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.
-- Nathalie Sarraute -
Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.
-- Nicky Oppenheimer -
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.
-- Norman Spinrad -
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.
-- Peter Gay -
Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.
-- Philip Rieff -
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
-- Philip Zimbardo -
The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation
-- Philippe Perrin -
All problems in mathematics are psychological.
-- Pierre Deligne -
I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.
-- Pola Negri -
Green exercise improves psychological health.
-- Richard Louv -
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.
-- Richard Owen -
Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.
-- Robert Byrd -
Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.
-- Roy Schafer -
The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.
-- Samael Aun Weor -
In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.
-- Sigmund Freud -
You marry at the level of your own psychological health.
-- Sonia Friedman -
I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.
-- Sophia Bush -
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 some way.
-- Steve Martin -
She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.
-- Steve Martin -
If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.
-- Thomas Nagel -
I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.
-- Ti-Grace Atkinson -
The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.
-- Tom Platz -
Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.
-- Tom Vanderbilt -
Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero.
-- Velupillai Prabhakaran -
There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.
-- Wilhelm Wundt -
Well my motto was "Never Monologue a Clegane", because Beric Dondarrion and Thoros were messing around with The Hound and Beric essentially got killed, even though he got to come back, and then the monologue is just a foolish thing to do. But it's also psychological state of mind, he can't get over his sister.
-- Alex Graves -
I don't watch things like Jeepers Creepers or Final Destination 53 ½. I really like more of the psychological thrillers.
-- Alexandra Breckenridge -
Although I studied, I have never been taught paintingbecause I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.
-- Amrita Sher-Gil -
I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.
-- Barbara Ess -
The "biggest" poems I ever made are based on the psychological principal of the "Johari Window:" what the self freely shares with others; what the self hides from others; what others hide from the self; and what is unknown to the self and others.
-- Denise Duhamel -
One of the great dangers of transformational work is that the ego attempts to sidestep deep psychological work by leaping into the transcendent too soon. This is because the ego always fancies itself much more 'advanced' than it actually is.
-- Don Richard Riso -
The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one were indeed in the past or future, as many do, pollutes the lively possibilities of existence.
-- Erving Polster -
I don't really think there's a need to have a men's line. I think a lot of the men's lines just take the products for women and put them in different containers. It's all psychological.
-- Fredric Brandt -
Since functional brain imaging first emerged, we have learned that there aren't very many brain regions uniquely responsible for specific tasks; most complex tasks engage many if not all of the brain's major networks. So it is fairly hard to make general psychological inferences just from brain data.
-- Joshua Greene -
The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.
-- Larry Clark -
According to the norms of the hijras community, it's not necessary that one be castrated. Castration is your choice. If you do it, testosterone doesn't build up, femininity comes, but I have always said that castration is not the right way. A person should go for complete sexual reassignment surgery, hormone therapy, psychological counseling.
-- Laxmi Narayan Tripathi -
Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one.
-- Lillian B. Rubin -
A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.
-- Maureen O'Hara
