Quotes About Psychology

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

Really, according to the shrinks, I am angry at everyone ever. Especially them. I am all anger and resentment all the time. Not one of them has ever suggested that maybe I lie because the world is better the way I tell it.

Aidi nodded. "Lying to yourself's always a problem," he said.

It has been said that a man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal. Perhaps he becomes a criminal because he has never ceased to be an animal.

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses

That anger is not as reactionary as you think it to be. It is a weapon that you enjoy using in order to protect your ego and to bolster it.

Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most.

You can't worry about intimidating me and playing the game at the same time.

Human darkness fascinates me; I find it intriguing. And there are few female characters who are explored in this light.

Children, if they haven't been introduced to foods by the time they're 3 years old, are afraid of it, as if it would hurt them. They don't really get out of that until they're 6 or 7 - it's a safety mechanism, and you're not going to win.

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

Color is so intuitive.

The laugh track was invented to cue the audience to the jokes and encourage laughter in response. But it has another effect: if you hear people laughing and you're not, you start to question if maybe there's something wrong with you for not getting it.

I really like investigating the things that make us human.

When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.

Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.

My idea is to write a story where every character is well etched out, irrespective of their gender. Because they all are human beings and stories are on the situation and human mind.

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

Little kids definitely have desires and jealousy. There are some emotions that don't show up at birth, but by three or four, they are all there.

When I was playing Jimmy White in those finals, I could tell when he was under pressure.