Quotes About Influence

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

'Pagan Day' was Alex Fergusson's idea. It was him that encouraged me to start making music again and start Psychic TV.

One of my favorite films is 'Psycho,' which I saw when I was 12.

We often operate effectively on the physical battleground but not on the psychological battleground. We fail to communicate our resolve.

Using words to make other people less big made me feel bigger, though the psychological dimension to that... well, I don't want to explore it.

Psychological mapping for political ends is now going to be part of every campaign.

Psychologically, when you hear something a number of times, you start to believe it.

It seems to me psychologically I'm a Canadian.

I became a cognitive psychologist because I met a bunch of teachers I really liked.

I went through a brief phase when I thought of other career options: being an air hostess and even a psychologist. But eventually, my destiny led me to acting. Moreover, my dad being an actor, I have grown up in a very filmi environment. I was encouraged to watch films since I was a child.

My mother's father was the behavioral psychologist, John B. Watson.

Oh, I'm a psychology nerd; I love to learn about why people behave the way they do, how experiences influence us.

In psychology and behavioral economics, people have shown that if you just describe options in a certain way, or make some features of a situation salient, you can get people to do and even see what you want. You don't have to be a Jedi to manipulate people's attention.

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.

The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.

By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.

I think what Bob Shiller and I are doing is we're focusing on macroeconomics and the role of psychology in macroeconomics.

Persuasiveness takes finesse; it takes an understanding of human psychology. And intention is everything.

I want to know the psychology of a YouTuber... do you think, to be a YouTuber, you have to have something off?

I've always been interested in social psychology and why certain groups of people do things while others don't.

I've explained before the power psychology has on the markets.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

Power is not just about the chair. The public is power.