Quotes About Psychology

The upset is in the mind of the favorite.

The basis of intimidation as I practiced it was mystery. I wanted the hitter to know nothing about me.

Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.

That old saw about smiling when you're sad left out the real point- that it kills you to do it.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — the distance between your ears.

I figured out long ago that guilt was like mothers. Everyone in the world had at least one. And it was passed down like a torch to the next generation.

I'm not sure a professional psychologist would agree, but something in me understands that until we deal with our most traumatic traumas, there's a part of us that stays at the age at which we encountered them.

The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves

Hatreds are the chimneys of the mind, serving to carry off the smoke of its pestilent humors.

According to Hugh Thomas, author of 'A History of the World', the greatest medical advance in history has been garbage collection. The greatest psychological advance in history is just around the corner and will also have to do with cleaning up. Cleaning up lies and "coming out of the closet" is getting more attention these days. Some day we will look back on these years of suffocation in bullsh*t in the same way we look back on all the years people lived in, and died from, their garbage.

When incessant grieving occurs, it is usually out of the person's attempt to handle anger by crying and feeling bad and having obsessional thoughts.

They concluded that every suicide can be explained as "an attempt to maintain or enhance the self." The mind is maintained at the expense of the life of the being. The mind survives by being right. The mind would rather be right and die than be wrong and live.

Therapy doesn't always work. Sometimes when it does work, it works only for a while and then the person degenerates back to living out of more bullshit - this time about how well therapy worked - and loses whatever relearning occurred.

All the financial knowledge in the world will not benefit clients if they are unable or unwilling psychologically to act on that knowledge.

Clients who have experienced traumatic or painful experiences around money are often unaware of the ways in which their past experiences cloud their future.

Clients who have experienced traumatic or painful experiences around money are often unaware of the ways in which their past experiences cloud their future. They often think they just don't understand money and need more technical information on the planning process.

People are more twisted than people think.

Who among us can deny that within every adult is caged a frightened child?

Repressing your emotions will gradually darken the landscape of your life.

People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.

The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us.

It is as evil as we are positive...the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive... The fact is that if one tries beyond one's capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and becomes the devil.