Quotes About Psychology

Every person can be manipulated—and all of us are, in one manner or another. —wisdom of the Cogitors

The brain is a fickle bitch. Sometimes it revolts." He

Fear, if not accompanied by pain, turns into a habit

Facts tell but emotions sell, and most sales happen through emotion.

This is one of the greatest breakthroughs in success psychology. You develop the courage you desire by disciplining yourself repeatedly to do the thing you fear until that fear eventually disappears—and it will.

This is the basic principle that underlies most religion, psychology, philosophy, and metaphysics. This law says, "Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.

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Most of your emotions, positive or negative, are determined by how you talk to yourself on a minute-to-minute basis. It is not what happens to you but the way that you interpret the things that are happening to you that determines how you feel.

Influencia, Robert Cialdini

The Law of Reversibility in psychology and metaphysics says, "You are more likely to act yourself into feeling a particular way than you are to feel yourself into acting.

As long as we believe it is food that causes us to overeat, we are lost. Television, friends, and weather seem pretty unrelated to what we eat. That's why they have such a powerful effect on us.

People were almost twice as likely to reach for a comfort food when they were happy than when they were sad.

Yet the heavier a person was—American or French—the more they relied on external cues to tell them when to stop eating and the less they relied on whether they felt full.13

Hearing can't dares a person to find a workaround. It's a basic psychological theory called reactance - telling someone no just makes them want it more.

But it's often the case that our most intimate enemies are rooted in our own darkness.

They prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

From this ground zero, a modern meaning movement began to rise, eventually growing to include philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. If the symptoms of meaninglessness were alienation and emptiness, the balm was fulfillment and personal sense-making. The "central concept of human psychology is meaning," wrote Jerome Bruner. And the central task of every individual is to make your own meaning. There is no single formula. But

Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.

Dogs can't see in colour, and psychos can't see in human.

In addition, your psychological makeup will influence the degree of risk you should assume. One investment adviser suggests that you consider what kind of Monopoly player you once were (or still are). Were you a plunger? Did you construct hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place? True, the other players seldom landed on your property, but

when they did, you could win the whole game in one fell swoop. Or did you prefer the steadier but moderate income from the orange monopoly of St. James Place, Tennessee Avenue, and New York Avenue? The answers to these questions may give you some insight into your psychological makeup with respect to investing.

Daniel Kahneman has argued that this tendency to overconfidence is particularly strong among investors. More than most other groups, investors tend to exaggerate their own skill and deny the role of chance. They overestimate their own knowledge, underestimate the risks involved, and exaggerate their ability to control events.

We're usually aware of the feeling before the thought.

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.