Quotes About Psychology

How to be one up—how to make the other man feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly.

A person today who seems to have a great sense of self-esteem has his or her childhood days to thank for it.

Knowing that the brain is predisposed to religion and spirituality, then might it be that God is a creation of the brain?

The desire to have the power over others and dominate them arises basically from the negative thoughts that you have inside you.

Repeating positive installing statements for a few minutes, and then thinking negatively the rest of the day neutralizes the effects of the positive words.

You can grow up being a troublemaker and then before you know it the next thing you're doing is listening to Frank Zappa whilst chilling out…now that's the intelligent way out. What would a psychiatrist say about that?

At 31 years of age, Fred West was a big man trapped in a little man's body. He thought himself to be a gynecologist and Warren Beatty look-a-like all rolled into one … the surgeon and the stud.

Transference: treating, responding to, and/or having feelings about someone in the present as though they were someone important from the past.

If you have imaginary enemies, it is possible to have imaginary victories.

Unlike a woman, who can turn a man on just by thinking about it, a man typically is unable to turn a woman on in the same way. However, she can and will turn herself on if she's given adequate reasons to do so.

In 1931 German psychologist Kurt Lewin proposed what would come to be known as Lewin's equation: B = f (P, E)—that is, human behavior is a function of a person and his or her environment. This

It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.

study by Phillippa Lally and her research team showed it takes 66 days to create a brand-new routine.

The truth is, our best intentions often fail in the harsh light of how much you desire to engage in the very habit you're trying to eliminate. In psychology terms, your super-ego is no match for your id.

Psychological flexibility is the ability to feel and think with openness, to attend voluntarily to your experience of the present moment, and to move your life in directions that are important to you, building habits that allow you to live life in accordance with your values and aspirations. It's about learning not to turn away from what is painful, instead turning toward your suffering in order to live a life full of meaning and purpose.

Consumers of psychological change advice should demand broadly useful methods of change that work, and that do so through change processes that have precision, scope, and depth.

The goal is not to "fix" people but rather to empower them. What the psychological flexibility model provides is a characterization of key features that can be changed, but it does not specify how to link history to those features, nor precisely how to intervene in a step-by-step fashion.

All neuroses are merely adult forms of whining and pouting.

But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their own interests ahead of others'. This doesn't make them bad people; it just makes them human.

Psychologists have done tests about how humans approach problem solving and found that we are somehow preprogrammed to look for confirmation and not for disconfirmation.

Why is it, I wonder, that organizations such as yours are invariably run by pitiful human failures? By small-minded psychotics and perverts. All bullied as children, of course. Or abused by twisted parents – I'm sure you have terrible tales to confess, of your miserable youth. And now the power is in your hands, and oh how the rest of us suffer.

I actually went to the university as a psychology major, and at orientation, they took us around the campus and took us to the theater for a skit. At the end of the skit, I literally could not get up out of my seat.

Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias and market it as a sleeper hit.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.