Quotes About Psychology

when you're angry and filled with hate for someone, he's in your head; he owns you.

R. D. Laing once said there are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds.

there are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds.

If you are told you will have a spiritual experience, chances are pretty good that you will, and, likewise, if you are told the drug may drive you temporarily insane, or acquaint you with the collective unconscious, or help you access "cosmic consciousness," or revisit the trauma of your birth, you stand a good chance of having exactly that kind of experience.

The entropy paper asks us to conceive of the mind as an uncertainty-reducing machine with a few serious bugs in it.

the critical influence of "set" and "setting." Set is the mind-set or expectation one brings to the experience, and setting is the environment in which it takes place.

the workings of consciousness are both more and less materialistic than we usually think: chemical reactions can induce thoughts, but thoughts can also induce chemical reactions.

What is striking about this whole line of clinical research is the premise that it is not the pharmacological effect of the drug itself but the kind of mental experience it occasions—involving the temporary dissolution of one's ego—that may be the key to changing one's mind.

D. Laing once said there are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds. Put me down as two for three.

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.

As a psychologist, I can tell you that there are people who look very good in a group, but they're very different in a one-on-one situation.

The idea is that in any situation, people have a notion as to who they are and how they should behave. And if you don't behave according to your identity, you pay a cost.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

I have seen 'The Sixth Sense.'

Psychology is a big part of sport that some people do not realise. But it is a skill you have to practice.

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.

No longer do companies study consumers' psyches only by asking people what they think about technology and how they use it. Now they conduct observational research, dispatching anthropologists to employ their ethnographic skills by interviewing, watching and videotaping consumers in their natural habitats.

Nadal and Roger Federer have great respect for each other. I think Novak Djokovic gets under those two guys' skin a little bit, and maybe they don't want to admit it, and I think that's, in a way, healthy.

Mourinho is known for getting under players' skins, tickling and goading better performances out of them.

although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.