Quotes About Psychology

Let us not have a computer psychology that makes us think we know it all. All answers on computers - but no surprises. The challenge of love. God reveals himself through surprises.

I love playing darker roles, or roles with meat. I feel very comfortable in that environment. I don't know why. I don't know what that says about me. I really enjoy doing complicated characters.

I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie Black Swan.

I love anything to do with serial killers.

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

I love going to plays. There's a subconscious side to it, obviously-some people like to be spanked for XYZ psychological reasons, and I like to go to plays, and I can't entirely explain why.

I love the human mind.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.

Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.

Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.

Then tell me - for I am a student of the brain - how you accept the hypnotism and reject the thought reading.

The Patty Winters Show this morning was about people with half their brains removed. My chest feels like ice.

This widespread epidemic of self-victimization—defining yourself in essence by way of a bad thing, a trauma that happened in the past that you've let define you—is actually an illness.

the face of severe trauma, the brain could conjure entire worlds that didn't exist as a way of blocking out reality. Hallucinations of people and places. Delusions that the mind refused to give up.

In the face of severe trauma, the brain could conjure entire worlds that didn't exist as a way of blocking out reality. Hallucinations of people and places. Delusions that the mind refused to give up.

Frankie sighed. "Phobias aren't rational, Harmon." "Yeah