Quotes About Psychology

Very often one "pushes away" the very thing that one most wants to grab, like a lover. This is a common, although distressing, psychological mechanism, having to do (in my opinion) with the fact that what is presented is not presented "purely", that there is a little canker or grim place in it somewhere.

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

All emotions stem from beliefs. You can't feel something without believing something to be true first.

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

We have psychologized like the insane, who aggravate their madness in struggling to understand it.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

Consumer behaviour is a powerful realm from which to explore our biological heritage.

Human beings rarely do things for a binary reason.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

We talked to a lot of psychologists who were working in business schools who put men and women in front of scientific reasoning quizzes. The women will routinely think they have done less well than they have done. The men will think they have done better than they have done. In reality, they have done about the same.

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.

As recently as 1979, neither panic attacks nor panic disorder officially existed.

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

Engineers are great at many things. They're not necessarily great at recognizing basic human psychology.

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

After a big defeat, any player feels affected - it is about how long he needs to recover.

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.

There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

Jake Roberts started in Mid-South as a referee. We're pretty close, and we come from the same school of thought when it comes to the psychology of wrestling.

The research says that being successful doesn't automatically make you happier, but being happier - being more positive - makes you more successful.

People say child stars have a hard time 'because of the entertainment business,' but I think there's a dysfunction before all that. I use the analogy, 'If you're a fool without money, you'll be a fool with money.'