Quotes About Psychology

Also, serial killers, child killers, they're hot, they're the new cool kids, the new vampires, the new zombies, everybody's favourite spook monster.

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods.

The reason is that the race-hater is inwardly a man who hates himself. He finds it necessary to shift to others his own unconscious feelings of guilt. Hence he chooses as his victim a member of a minority group who is less able to defend himself than the average person. To his victim he unconsciously shifts his own shortcomings

Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.

Do you influence your emotions or are you influenced by your emotions?

Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!"

consumer investing," that is, working with businesses that sold directly to the broad public and whose fate would be determined by marketing, positioning, segment leadership, and branding. In short, businesses based on mastering consumer psychology.

When a divorce is initiated, regardless of who files with the court, blamers particularly feel threatened. Many cannot handle seeming in any way responsible for the divorce, which triggers their lifelong fears of abandonment and inferiority. Therefore, they split their partner into all bad. It feels like a war between good and evil to blamers, so they create one. Their extreme feelings create their own problems.

Like fever and pain, anxiety and low mood are useful normal responses to some situations.

In the clinic it is obvious that what patients believe about human nature influences their lives and problems.

Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.

in human males, testosterone appears to promote behavior intended to dominate other people. This behavior can be expressed aggressively, even violently, as well as nonaggressively. Testosterone levels, even a single baseline measurement, correlate well with dominance behavior, that is, testosterone not only affects dominance behavior but also responds to it.

People tend to conceive things as true when they wish them to be true.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.

The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain. —Sigmund Freud

we each appear to have two brains, not one, and we can do pretty well with either.

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.

Hope isn't real by definition, is it? It's just a state of mind....

As athletes, when you find something that gets to someone you have to press their buttons.

The thing is, against guys like GSP or Anderson Silva, many guys are beaten before they step into the cage.

The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.

As actors, when we keep working every day, after a point of time, we just know all our emotional cards and how to play them.

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.