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Quotes About Psychology

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.
~ Charles D. Broad
Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual.
~ Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
~ Laura Schlessinger
In psychology and behavioral economics, people have shown that if you just describe options in a certain way, or make some features of a situation salient, you can get people to do and even see what you want. You don't have to be a Jedi to manipulate people's attention.
~ Cass Sunstein
Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.
~ Conrad Black
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
~ Marianne Moore
Running is a good example of the link between fitness and psychology. I have found an easy way to enjoy running by focusing on 5k runs - they are long enough to get your heart going but not so long that you get bored.
~ Jos Buttler
To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential.
~ Andre Braugher
I have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical.
~ Autre Ne Veut
I was initially just fascinated by the Branch Davidians. This doesn't really apply to Rachel Koresh because she was born into the church, and that was all she had ever known, but I was fascinated by the psychology of how people get to that place - a place like Mount Carmel and an FBI stand-off for 51 days.
~ Melissa Benoist
One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.
~ Steve Forbes
The psychology of education is all about how the society gets benefited from it.
~ Vetrimaaran
I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology.
~ Bob Paisley
I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.
~ Nicole Kidman
I have not thought too much about the psychology or life of the character Jonas in some time.
~ Corin Nemec
By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
~ Jodie Foster
I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology.
~ George Packer
But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.
~ Rachel Dratch
A desire for social connection is fundamentally hardwired into our psychology, and so being deprived of it has devastating mental and physical consequences. Yet we live in a society which has become ever more fragmented and atomised.
~ Owen Jones
My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics and psychology and anthropology, all of these different things you have to deal with.
~ Michael Pollan
The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.
~ Edward Sapir
The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.
~ John Desmond Bernal
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
~ Philip Zimbardo
I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.
~ Hugo Weaving