Quotes About Psychology

I don't think people change.

I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.

It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.

Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

People don't realize it's not just about being funny, and they don't know how perceptive a comedian needs to be about human nature. You have to really be able to read a situation and peoples' emotions.

Some drivers are like that. When they get a bit angry, they can perform better.

So much of performing is a mind game.

The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

DREAM INTERPRETATION Simplified. Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex.

Socjalizm by? pi?kny, ale niestety nie odpowiada? psychice ludzkiej i post?powaniu normalnego cz?owieka.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

At a first glance, medical psychology seems to have nothing to do with religion. But at its depth it provides a new, though at the same time primordial, perspective on what should be the subject matter of religion. It is both a criticism and an approval of religion. It is in and through the soul that problems of the world reveal themselves as world problems.

The goal in meditation is not to exorcise the psyche of disturbing thoughts and emotions, nor to suppress them, but to hold them in non-reactive, friendly awareness. They may not necessarily disappear from the practitioner's psyche, but through consistent observing and witnessing of them, they cease to trouble him or her.

Feelings have their causes that the mind knows nothing about.

It's amazing, the psychology of growing in your field, no matter what you do. Growth comes from mistakes. You have to cherish them, so you can learn from them. Your mistakes are your greatest gift.

Alan Loy McGinnis, author of the best-selling The Friendship Factor, says that America's leading psychologists and therapists estimate that only 10 percent of all men ever have any real friends.2

person's behaviour changes mysteriously according to circumstances. So, it is impossible for anyone to understand it. Explaining this, Chanakya says that like the Neem tree (Indian

Alain Robbe-Grillet once wrote that the worst thing to happen to the novel was the arrival of psychology. You can assume he meant that now we all expect to understand the motivation behind each character's actions, as if that's possible, as if life works that way. I've read so many recent novels, particularly those published in the Anglo world, that are dull and trite because I'm always supposed to infer causality.

Alain Robbe-Grillet once wrote that the worst thing to happen to the novel was the arrival of psychology.

The very psychology of men and women about their mutual relation is changing and becoming the psychology of the primitive fighting elements, rather than of humanity seeking its completeness through the union based upon mutual self-surrender.