Quotes About Psychology

We suffer not because suffering is inevitable. Suffering is inevitable when you keep trying to suppress those feelings you're afraid of. Feelings you labelled as 'bad' and believe you should have never had them in the first place. You'll never get out of this rut lest you learn to sit with the feeling no matter how horrible it feels. Give it (the feeling) the acceptance it deserves and illusion of suffering is reveled

I figured out once that if you decide to have fun when you give a public talk, then you relax. It is psychologically impossible to have fear and fun at the same time. When I am relaxed, ideas flow freely into my mind during my talk, then leave through my mouth with the smoothness of eloquence. Moreover, the audience doesn't get bored when it is fun.

There's a thin line between obsession and derangement, and I'm not at all sure the professor hasn't crossed it.

Mind-changing is the road to advertising disaster.

If you were forced to drink a beaker of di-hydrogen oxide, your response would probably be negative. If you asked for a glass of water, you might enjoy it. That's right. There's no difference on the palate. The difference, in the brain.

When we repress our desires, they do not disappear but stay beneath the surface and continue to exert their influence. Prohibition arouses desire and suggests stratagems for satisfying it.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

Interaction design isn't merely a matter of aesthetic choice; rather, it is based on an understanding of users and cognitive principles.

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

knowing how the mind works isn't going to change how your mind works. Even

when proving what caused an accident, disciplines such as metallurgy are much less difficult to employ than psychology. So perhaps they should better be called "easy science" and psychology called "hard science.

The truth about resilience is that it's a learned behavior. If you gravitate toward hopelessness, it's not because you're hopeless, but because your brain has done it so many times before. If your mind naturally goes to despair, it's not because your situation is dire, but because you have developed strong neural pathways for despair.

Fears are educated into us," Dr. Karl Menninger once wrote, "and they can, if we wish, be educated out.

Human nature is tabula rasa (a blank slate).7

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

America's a very traumatized society.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

I think all actors have addictive personalities.

People read way too much into personalities and all that stuff.

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.