Quotes About Psychology

How prepared we are mentally is very important.

Sometimes you have a good game and mentally you are very tired.

I lock receivers down physically and then mentally I get into their mind, get under their skin. I talk my talk. Whatever I'm going to say.

We're so trained to be 'mentally tough,' in sports.

In acting, you have to fool yourself - you mess with yourself into believing things.

I like the human mind and how messed up it is.

Sometimes the hardest shot is when people are giving you space to shoot, because it messes with your head.

The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.

Learning method acting might mess me up.

I don't have any particular method, my approach is very simple. I try to understand the emotional graph of the character.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

There is more meat and mileage in complex characters, like 'Running with Scissors.'

It's all in the mind, you know.

As a bowler our job is to create doubts in the minds of the batsmen.

I'm really interested in how people's minds work - what makes them sad or happy.

I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.

I do enjoy a level of intensity that I bring when I'm the Demon, but it's a mindset that takes a couple of days to get into; it's not something I can do every day.

Human behavior, ninety-eight percent of it, is an abomination.

Caplan writes:   My study of personality psychology makes me one of the doubters. On the popular Myers-Briggs personality test, there is a huge Thinking-Feeling gap between men and women. For men, the breakdown is roughly 60% Thinking, 40% Feeling. For women, the breakdown is roughly 30% Thinking, 70% Feeling.

What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe

Psychologists have known for some time that rewarding desirable responses is generally more effective in shaping behavior than punishing undesirable responses.19 However, the average person tends to find this fact surprising, and punishment has been the preferred reinforcer for the majority of parents in both modern society19 and in earlier periods.

some evidence has accumulated that people who habitually fail to put the most favorable cast on their circumstances run the risk of depression.

Regression effects, in other words, serve to "punish the administration of reward, and to reward the administration of punishment."21

At times her whimsical fancy would intensify natural processes around her till they seemed a part of her own story. Rather they became a part of it; for the world is only a psychological phenomenon, and what they seemed they were.