Quotes About Psychology

I was shocked at the revelation of her vaulting ambition, her greed. I should have loathed her or, knowing what kind of a person she was, I should have realized the futility of any personal attachment, the impossibility of its maturing into something warm, human enduring. By then, I had known a bit of the prostitute's psychology, the ruthlessness which marked her relationship with men but I ignored these.

Yet understanding one's own nature is often a first step to personal growth. All this psychological crap was making me irritable.

In my experience, men or women who kill out of "hopeless love" suffer from low self-esteem and all that malarkey.

Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.

Empezaría a pensar que me enorgullecería más, si descubrir una verdad o hacer una cosa bella; yo me quedaría con las dos cosas, como si me pusiera dos trajes: un día uno de profesor de psicología y otro de literato.

Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.

La conversion de Constantin est le fait le plus important de l'histoire du monde méditerranéen entre la constitution de l'hégémonie romaine et l'établissement de l'Islam. C'est à lui qu'est dû le triomphe du christianisme qui, en bouleversant la psychologie des hommes, a creusé un abîme entre nous et l'Antiquité. Depuis l'adoption du christianisme, nous vivons sur un autre plan.

Many people find that they frequently slip into negative, unproductive moods, and, once in these moods, it can be difficult to shift out of them. We suggest that this happens because most people have an interpretation of mood and emotion that limits their power to observe and change their moods.

Viendo las cosas con la objetividad que da el tiempo, no andaban tan errados mis doctores ni tan mala era su fórmula. Al que está en guerra consigo mismo hay que aflojarle el yo obstinado. ¿Cómo? Muy simple. Puesto que el yo no es otra cosa que recuerdos, borrándole el recuerdo. Así la cinta queda lista para grabar de nuevo.

Sian Beilock, a psychologist and leading expert on choking, defined the phenomenon in her book Choke as "poor performance that occurs in response to the perceived stress of a situation." The

Well-trained athletes have an easier time achieving flow because they are less physically self-conscious.

may have resulted from abnormal wiring in the serotonergic system of his brain. Other

Self against self in a woman divided.

Willard married his father in female form.

Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.

There are three departments of the mind, the subconscious, conscious and superconscious.

Le monde est désormais habité par des êtres horriblement indépendants, complexés, insatisfaits ; des amoureux incapables d'aimer, des moutons qui refusent d'être des moutons, mais broutent quand même en se fantasmant à l'écart du troupeau ; bref, d'excellents clients pour Freud, Bouddha, Fashion TV et Facebook.

The most effective kind of propaganda is defined as the kind where the subject moves in the direction you desire for reasons which he believes to be his own.

Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.

For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.

It is all too apparent: wounds never heal, but rather, in a torpid state deep inside the medial temporal lobe of the brain, grief waits for fresh release.

We'll erase those who want to use us for our family prestige... ...and erase those girls who try to apply their patronizing psychology theories on us... ...and those stupid adults who only judge us by our outward appearances.... We'll erase them all from our consciousness.

The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of welcome or rejection.

Fictional characters come trailing many cognitive puzzles.