Quotes About Psychology

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Whatever happens to us originates in the mind.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring.

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

You have to train your mind like you train your body.

Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.

In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.

By forcefully telling nasty people off, or performing other cathartic acts, you will supposedly stop your aggressive energy from building to harmful levels.

you do feel like a noble, superhuman, holier-than-thou person, you are then, according to REBT, experiencing an unhealthy positive feeling.

You create both healthy and unhealthy feelings when your goals and desires are blocked.

people often want to remain angry. This represents a very important difference between anger and other troublesome emotions.

how it blocks them from reaching their goals