Quotes About Psychology

You are born with only two fears: fear of falling and fear of loud noise. All the rest is learned. And it's a lot of work!

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore.

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.

I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.

People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.

The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.

People who are prone to guilt tend to work harder and perform better than people who are not guilt-prone, and are perceived to be more capable leaders.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person

I work with my dreams or nightmares.

'Freakonomics' began with a 'N.Y. Times Magazine' profile I wrote about Steve Levitt. I was working on a book about 'the psychology of money,' and since Levitt's an economist, my editor thought I'd be the guy to write about him. Fact is that Levitt has almost no interest in either psychology or money.

Sometimes, I have played something that psychologically sticks with me, that's opposite of where I am. I guess I have a lot of anger in me.

The idea of a physical stigma is quite appealing. When I wrote the book of 'Bodies,' there was a lot of that in the book about how there are physical manifestations of psychological problems - I think it's described as 'Narrativizing The Body.'