Quotes About Psychology

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Human beings are born with just two basic fears. One is the fear of loud noises. The other is the fear of falling. All other fears must be learned.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.

A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly, I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

I know that everyone brings to the work his or her own experiences and background and may interpret the piece like a Rorschach, in their own way.

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially, but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.

My nature is to try and look past apparent truths, to pull back layers and understand the psychological motives behind phenomena.

The mental game is what separates the good players from the great players. So anything I can do to get that mental edge to help me stay my best, I'm gonna try and do it.

Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.