Quotes About Psychology

One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called Denial.

... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.

Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

Girls and boys respond to stress differently - not just in our species, but in every mammal scientists have studied. Stress enhances learning in males. The same stress impairs learning in females.

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.

Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

People always like to hear that they're under stress, makes them feel better. You can imagine what they'd feel if they were told they weren't under stress.

People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

I admit that thoughts influence the body.

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

While I believe in the power of positive thought, I do not believe that you or I can simply psyche ourselves into success or peace of mind.