Quotes About Psychology

For me, making my intent clear to the batsman before he stamps his authority is important. Playing with his mind is a way of attacking rather than setting attacking fields.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.

From a purely craft standpoint, a simple character has a single motivation, while complex characters have two or three or more motivations, at least one of which is in direct conflict with another.

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.

Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.

The game women play is men.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.