Quotes About Psychology

ADD has turned into a catchall for all childhood misbehavior. When a student's failing in class, or he gets into mischief

Law of Reversed Effect. The harder you try to remember something, the less likely it is you'll be able to recall it.

Picquerism is the act of stabbing or cutting, any repeated penetration of the skin with a sharp object.

This unsub is a classic picquerist. Someone who uses a knife to achieve secondary or indirect sexual release. Picquerism is the act of stabbing or cutting, any repeated penetration of the skin with a sharp object. The knife is a phallic symbol--a substitution for the male sexual organ. Instead of performing normal sexual intercourse, our unsub achieves his release by subjecting his victim to pain and terror.

When you understand what's involved in winning, as do professional gamblers, you'll tend to bet more during a winning streak and less during a losing streak. However, the average person does exactly the opposite: he or she bets more after a series of losses and less after a series of wins.

You will find that there is a mighty power, a non-exclusive, eternal dimension that actually can change your psychology, your joy of life; it can lift you up, give you a sense of self beyond anything you imagined to empower you to become that child of the universe, a child of God to whom miracles of goodness can come. Take the time to seek; take the time to rediscover the depths of these teachings and everything will change. (p. 20)

EVERY OBJECT of the mind is itself mind.

All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.

I'm very interested in cinema that explores emotional journeys and where you can use everything at your disposal cinematically to locate you inside someone's head and their emotional landscape.

Casting judgments is an integral feature of what makes us human.

We're just kind of dark as humans, generally.

We're not whole people if we're just one emotion. On any given day, you can be happy, sad, angry, and so on... As you mature, you just learn to deal with each one of those emotions.

Most of my acting in general is about what's going on in the head, and the lines are just something that comes out.

Human beings will justify anything.

Keeping my emotions in check translates to me playing a lot better.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

Guilt is a serious appetite killer.

Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.

I am a serial killer. I would kill again.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

Sometimes, taking a job is like going to a shrink or something, where you get to know yourself better.

Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?

A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.