Quotes About Psychology

Instead of assaulting sales resistance by direct attack, he is interested in removing sales resistance.

Man's thoughts and actions are compensatory substitutes for desires which he has been obliged to suppress.

Propaganda is a purposeful, directed effort to overcome censorship—the censorship of the group mind and the herd reaction.

To be clear: the West's souring mood is about the psychology of dashed expectations rather than the decline in material comforts.

When someone is alcoholic, is abusing cocaine, or is dependent upon marijuana, we often become so preoccupied with the problems the drug use creates that we fail to consider what purpose the drug must be serving for the user.

A model that explains the "itch" at the core of ADD

Worry is a special form of fear. To create worry, humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination, and fuel it with emotion.

Only two industries refer to their customers as 'users': computer design and drug dealing

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are spontaneously generous if forced to make instant decisions but begin to gravitate toward more selfish strategies if given time to think.

work in social psychology has made it clear that cognitive control is a limited resource. When a teacher taps on a dozing student's desk and says: "Pay attention!" it turns out that this is not a metaphor: attention is costly, and if it is "spent" on one task there is less available to spend on another. This phenomenon is known as "ego depletion". ... The moral? Effort is effort, mental or physical.

When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it's painful, and it certainly doesn't feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride — thwarted pride.

Object relations theorists are interested in understanding how formative interactions between parents and children become internalized by the child and, akin to cognitive schemas, serve as mental representations that shape or guide how children establish and carry out subsequent relationships with others.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

The psyche adjusts to trauma in so many different ways, we just can't assume anything yet. But the resilience of the human spirit is a wondrous thing, truly limitless. Despair passes and anything can be born from it, anything at all. And Assaf is very young and he's strong inside, so we'll wait and watch and listen, and we'll see what we can do to help him regain his footing.

The game did not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they had brains they couldn't sit tight. Old

A trader, in addition to studying basic conditions, remembering market precedents and keeping in mind the psychology of the outside public as well as the limitations of his brokers, must also know himself and provide against his own weaknesses. There is no need to feel anger over being human.

Men tend to feel threatened women tend to feel guilty.

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A visionary psychologist examines and analyses, in all dimensions of the subject's nature, with the knowledge and ability of spirituality, philosophy, and politics, apart from its professional study. Otherwise, it represents only as a robot that circulates the content as its programme.

Play as the game with the emotions of others shows one's mental and moral terrorism.

The natural rose and artificial rose fragrances the reality itself. Similarly, A spiritual healer inspires the incredible and magnificent vision and insight of psychology, which predicts the Divine gift. Whereas a psychologist qualified from an institution presumes its study prospects. The discrepancy endorses clarity itself.

The current crop of experts claimed that baby girls stare at faces while baby boys watch the mobile over their cribs. They extrapolated from this to conclude that women are inherently interested in people and men are inherently interested in objects. ... Turner supposed they might be right in a statistical sense, but numbers don't tell the whole story. If you have one foot in boiling water and one in a tub of dry ice, on the average you're comfortable.