Quotes About Psychology

I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?

There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?

People hate to loose more than they love to win.

I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.

said, "Kinesics is as much an

Persuasion stems from understanding. We compel others by learning who they are and turning it against them.

To me, though, there's nothing particularly difficult to understand about a man who murders what he loves, and blames her for it.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which was the order in which people optimally satisfied different types of desires (food-safety-love-status-enlightenment).

You ever hear about that experiment an American journalist did in Moscow in the 1970s? He just lined up at some building, nothing special about it, just a random door. Sure enough, someone got in line behind him, then a couple more, and before you knew it, they were backed up around the block. No one asked what the line was for. They just assumed it was worth it.

No tienes que ser el puto Sun Tzu para saber que la verdadera batalla no consiste en matar, ni siquiera en herir al otro, sino en asustarlos lo suficiente para que lo deje.

real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day. Break

It's fear, dude, just fear and you don't have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day. Break their spirit, that's what every successful army goes for, from tribal face paint to the "blitzkrieg" to…what did we call the first round of Gulf War Two, "Shock and Awe"? Perfect name, "Shock and Awe"!

Terror is a powerful weapon. Terror clouds thought.

Why do I go there? Where's my, what do you call it, "ego-defense mechanism"?

fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe

der Terror, scheint es, eignet sich beonders zur Vernichtung sittlicher Menschen.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience.

The ''self-image'' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually suffering from feelings of inferiority; their superior self is a fiction, a coverup, to hide from themselves and others their deep-down feelings of inferiority and insecurity.

Damn shame when grown men are reduced to a bunch of pussies by their mother.

Denial is a strong temptation as well.

Feelings are emotional energy; they are not personality traits.