Quotes About Psychology

The old-timers taught me about psychology. Whatever body part, for instance, you decided to work on, well, you worked on. If you're working on someone's arm, you don't go to the head with headlocks. You don't go to the lower body. If you start with a body part, you stay with a body part.

I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.

The idea of applying psychology or behavioural sciences to communication is not a new one. It's very old behavioural economics. If it gives you some additional insights - so be it.

On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000.

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

Shift work, where the body clock is continuously changed, is really deleterious on many levels - from psychology to physiology.

Well, I'm not sure what pop psychology is, but I don't like it.

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

Oh, I'm a psychology nerd; I love to learn about why people behave the way they do, how experiences influence us.

I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker.

I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave.

In my own opinion, psychology in football is far more important than anyone believes, including the coaches.

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

I'd always been interested in psychology.

I'm not very good at depicting the characters' psychology on the page.

Psychology is important but motivation is something that if you don't have it inside then you can't provide it.