Psychologist famous quotes

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
-- Allen Tate

#Writing #Doe #Psychologist

As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.
-- Beverley Nichols

#Women #Psychologist #Grievance

I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.
-- Christopher Walken

#Psychologist

I've never, ever had any therapy. Some might say I need it, but I've never seen a shrink or a psychologist or anything like that.
-- Criss Angel

#Needs #Might #Psychologist

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.
-- Daniel Gilbert

#Psychologist #Economist #Utility

After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, “no hablo ingles.”
-- Dennis Wolfberg

#Years #Touching #Psychologist

Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is something that must be destroyed, dissolved or reduced, but [it is] capable only of harm when there is something to be built.
-- Donald O. Clifton

#Criticism #Way #Psychologist

One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women.
-- Geoffrey Gray

#Psychologist #Found

I’m like a psychologist, I can discover the panther inside a woman and then, boosh! I can give her power!
-- Giuseppe Zanotti

#Giving #Panthers #Psychologist

If the coach is good, I dont think a psychologist is needed.
-- Hansie Cronje

#Thinking #Psychologist #Needed

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
-- Howard Gardner

#Book #Would Be #Psychologist

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.
-- Ivan Sechenov

#Knowledge #Tasks #Psychologist

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.
-- John B. Watson

#Views #Talking #Psychologist

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.
-- Jonathan Kellerman

#Novelists #Human Nature #Psychologist

I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)
-- Karen Joy Fowler

#Daughter #Psychologist

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.
-- Lytton Strachey

#Poetic #Psychologist #Obvious

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
-- Naomi Weisstein

#World #Psychologist #Found

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.
-- Pamela Stephenson

#Objectivity #Psychologist

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
-- Sigmund Freud

#Degrees #Neurosis #Psychologist

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.
-- Steven Pinker

#Tools #Psychologist #Know Thyself

It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist.
-- Thomas Lansing Masson

#Children #Hard Life #Psychologist

Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better
-- David Hemenway

#Thinking #Want #Psychologist

Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable.
-- Hilary Kornblith

#Kind #Psychologist #Substitutes

I’m like a psychologist, I can discover the panther inside a woman and then, boosh! I can give her power!
-- Giuseppe Zanotti

#Giving #Panthers #Psychologist

If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples' lives for the better.
-- T. J. Miller

#Psychologist #Ifs