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Quotes About Psychology

Restitution costs: "He shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth to it." Restitution costs twenty percent according to Leviticus. Guilt requires not simply equity and an even balance, but gift beyond affront. It requires surplus compensation. Such a rule is both economically shrewd and psychologically sound. Israel is required to move beyond grudging restoration, until it is "pressed down and running over.
~ Walter Brueggemann
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
~ Walter C. Langer
People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.
~ Walter Langer
The deepest of all the stereotypes is the human stereotype which imputes human nature to inanimate or collective things.
~ Walter Lippmann
Ich weiß, jeder hält sich für normal. Und alle anderen für durchgedreht. Der irrste Irre wie der irrste Irrenarzt. Jedes Gehirn ist anders, jedes Gehirn ist verrückt und jedes Gehirn ist anders verrückt.
~ Walter Moers
Tal como nos enseña la naturaleza, cuando una persona se comporta sumisamente, realmente está intentando apaciguar a alguien que se percibe como amenazante (depredador) o reconociendo su superioridad.
~ Walter Riso
La autonomía produce esquemas antiapego y promueve maneras más sanas de relacionarse afectivamente
~ Walter Riso
La autoobservación es uno de los procesos mentales más importantes para el crecimiento humano, pero si nos excedemos en su uso, colocándolo al servicio de esquemas obsesivos y/o perfeccionistas93, la enfermedad psicológica puede prosperar fácilmente.
~ Walter Riso
Desde un punto de vista psicosocial, vivimos en una sociedad coadicta a los desmanes del amor.
~ Walter Riso
Las emociones secundarias pueden considerarse prolongaciones mentales de las emociones primarias.
~ Walter Riso
Tal como lo demuestran todas las tradiciones espirituales y la psicología cognitiva y positiva contemporánea, la mentalidad flexible hace que las personas se sientan más felices y se aproximen más a la sabiduría.
~ Walter Riso
La ignorancia emocional se conoce con el nombre de alexitimia, y significa incapacidad de lectura emocional.
~ Walter Riso
sentimiento de culpa suele obrar como una forma de autocastigo que apunta directo al corazón, una especie de harakiri psicológico autodestructivo, donde se ataca a la persona y no la conducta específica:
~ Walter Riso
De cómo la mente puede llegar a ser un estorbo
~ Walter Riso
Perhaps the reason she was so unhappy was because she thought unhappy thoughts.
~ Wanda E. Brunstetter
Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
~ Warren Buffett
Brooks punished them in drills on the ice and gave them a 300-question test to assess their psychological makeup off it. He was relentless. If they couldn't take this small sampling of life under Brooks, they wouldn't last through one Olympic practice shift.
~ Wayne Coffey
Prose divides shame into stations.
~ Wayne Koestenbaum
Contrary to my previously held belief, hunger does NOT, in fact, sharpen the mind.
~ Wendy Mass
Anti-pornography (or radical) feminists will consider me a heretic-fit only for burning. Or, to put it in more politically correct terms, I am a woman who is so psychologically damaged by patriarchy that I have fallen in love with my own oppression. My arguments will be dismissed. In other words, if I enjoy pornography, it is not because I am a unique human being with different preferences. It is because I am psychologically ill.
~ Wendy McElroy
Every brain is different. And so must be every course of therapy.
~ Wendy Walker
Tengo muy claro que los hombres tienen una responsabilidad, y que es necesario que se den cuenta de que en cuestiones sexuales no estamos en igualdad de condiciones. Y no solo por fisiología. Por psicología también, porque las chicas todavía se sienten presionadas a hacer cosas que no quieren, y los chicos, los hombres, entienden muy poco cómo lo viven ellas
~ Wendy Walker
If you were to touch a hot stove and burn your hand, but later were made to forget how you got the burn, your body would still have the fear of being burned. Only it would not be activated only by hear, or a red-hot burner on a stove. It would come and go at its leisure, and you would have no idea how to stop it.
~ Wendy Walker
KATE: "At fourteen months little girls' fingers and pacifiers are introduced into the vagina, and at fifteen months a girl baby has been known to fall asleep with her genitalia on her teddy bear. Finally, at sixteen months they start using a pencil." SAMANTHA: Don't little boys use pencils? HOLLY: No. They write with their cocks.
~ Wendy Wasserstein