Quotes About Psychology

A tendency toward obsession was hardwired into his brain and would likely be his undoing if he couldn't learn to outsmart it.

It's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely that you'll die that way—a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely you'll die that way---a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Its's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely that you'll die that way--a self-fulfilling prophecy.

illusions are tricks on the brain!

It sounds so good: the futurism of The Jetsons meets the self-actualization of Abraham Maslow.

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

I'm somewhat depressive.

You can't avoid being an egotistical person and ultimately somewhat narcissistic. You can try to curb it by recognizing that behavior. But at the same time, your repetitive behavior has its own psychology, and it's impossible to get out of that.

The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional.

I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.

If we're going to go farther from Earth, to Mars or somewhere else someday, we have to have a good understanding of the psychological impact on people. And not only psychologically, but how it affects their cognition. We're doing a lot of research on my cognitive abilities.

Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

The only way I know how to do something, as cheesy as it sounds, is to become that character, and it affects me in a not so healthy way.

The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.

In 1996, I received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California.

What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change as we live in its idealist manufactured dream, built by developers.

I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing.

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.