Quotes About Psychology

Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting.

We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt since childhood that we don't even consciously realise are going on.

I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.

How a character hides his feelings tells us something about him.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

I used to have a short temper. I still have one and when I lose it, it's bad. I think it comes from what you see when you're young. Sometimes it builds from being scared as well. Once you lose it once, you find comfort in losing your temper. It becomes embedded in you.

My parents' generation didn't have any understanding of psychology or emotion or individual temperament. In fact, they were slightly embarrassed by all those words.

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

We try too hard to figure out why these guys kill when it's really not possible to identify all of the factors that cause an individual to become a serial murderer. Think of the billions of things that have gone into developing who you are. I'm not just talking genetics and upbringing—think of all the things you've experienced every day of your life that have shaped who you are. That's why there's no template for these guys.

When it comes to psychopaths, there is no medication. There is no treatment. There is no cure. There are only prisons. —JENI GREGORY, PHD, LICSW, CCM, CCTP

That's what our minds do. They protect us. They bury those memories that would cripple us, so that we can live with ourselves.

neurosis happens when you are trapped by your memories into perpetuating your limitations.

If the present and past moods of these people were bad, they were more likely to contract the cold. So,

The size of an investor's brain is less important than his ability to detach the brain from the emotions.

Thinking Fast and Slow.

Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people's traumatised memories;

Psychology's loss," said Strike, "is private detection's gain.

I believe two different kinds of will can exist at the same time in one person. Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm