Quotes About Psychology

Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.

I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving it.

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

I like 'nerves'! I like the word 'migraineur'. I like the word 'madness'. These are OK words. The 19th century had a very handy term: 'neurasthenic'. I think that's a very useful word. We all know what that means: it means extra-sensitive.

While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.

I was in therapy as a child and definitely think that therapy is a very useful tool.

I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

Is there something psychologically wrong with David Gregory? No, besides the usual superhuman vanity of a television professional. He is just not a great host of a news talk show!

Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual than for a man to impute his actions to honorable motives when it is nearly demonstrable that they flowed from some corrupt and contemptible force.

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

A thing I do with all my characters is I break them down into one of three things: mind, heart, and groin. I figure out where they come from and what they utilize most.

I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.

I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.

Morbid humor is very valid, even healthy, as long as you don't do it gratuitously.

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

What is the evolutionary value of blushing? It seems not to be to our advantage to do it, to involuntarily reveal our inner emotions. If we're trying to manipulate or lie, actions in furtherance of individual goals as opposed to the goals of others, blushing would not seem to be helpful. And yet everyone blushes, except the psychopath.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

WHEN YOU INVEST, your mind has a mind of its own. At the very moment when you are most convinced of your own rationality, you may be feeling rather than thinking your way toward a decision.

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

si sabes lo que te ha pasado, y lo entiendes, puedes dominarlo; si no lo sabes y no lo entiendes, entonces es eso lo que te domina a ti. Y te come por dentro.

3. The unconscious mind controls the internal dialogue.