Quotes About Psychology

The short story is very good at looking at shadow psychologies and how the system breaks down underneath.

When someone's portraying something they're not to get underneath my skin, I'm just going to funnel that into a great strategy, and I'm going to try to get him out of there quick.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain.

A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.

Guardiola has a lot of knowledge about the game and understands the psychology of the players. You can see all the things he is doing well.

Teaming up for Evolution, I think Batista and I credit a lot of our success to Ric Flair, but especially Triple H. He has an amazing psychology for the business. He understands how to tell a story, and you just pick his brain the best you can while riding with him. It was a great advantage for us in terms of learning our craft.

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

Who hasn't had the 'I went to school/work in my underwear' dream?

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.