Quotes About Psychology

I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.

People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others.

There's every reason to think SSRIs blunt your ability to fall and stay in love.

It's very strange to become a character: the lines get blurred, and you start to sort of, I don't know, take it home too much?

On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game.

If I know my showboating bothers you, I'll keep doing it. If playing with your mind is part of the arsenal, and I know it works, then I'm going to continue doing it.

If you think like a batsman, you have an upper-hand over the man you're bowling to.

I am completely of the school that mind is entirely the manifestation of brain. So when there's a change in mind, there's got to be a neurobiological underpinning.

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.

Whenever someone wants to say something to a whole mass of people by breaking into song, there's probably something wrong with them.

I have a very good talent at finding out exactly what it is about yourself that you don't like and then keep bringing it up.

Coming from documentaries, my biggest challenge was to understand actors' psychologies. American actors take it all very seriously; British actors don't enter into all this methody way of doing things.

In a bubble, anyone who argues pessimistically is seen as crazy.

I bury things in the back of my mind I don't really want to deal with.

I talked to a brain specialist who told me when you think like someone else for such a long time, your brain actually changes.

Humans are hard-wired to be irrational when it comes to financial decisions. We must understand that so we don't become the sucker at the poker table.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

But if you have got a batsman out three or four times in the same series then you are in business - all of a sudden you have got yourself a bit of a bunny.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

I suffer from bizarre dreams and epic nightmares.

So I don't really suffer too badly from fears - I'm quite happy to engender them in other people though!

I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective. Most of the elite suffer from psychogenic amnesia. That means it's not organic amnesia, such as damage caused by brain injury. It's just a matter of psychology.