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Quotes About Psychology

How do you convince your split personality that he's not real?
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
~ W. Edwards Deming
On production floors and in corporate offices, sociological verbiage has replaced a basic understanding of human behavior.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Now is the age of anxiety.
~ W. H. Auden
There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.
~ Stanislav Grof
The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.
~ Constantin Stanislavski
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
~ Benjamin Lee Whorf
Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.
~ Erich Fromm
Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it
~ Judit Polgar
The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.
~ Sherry Turkle
Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
~ Bobby Fischer
Psychical confidence is the external expression of our internal state of confidence. In simpler terms, it is how confidence looks and sounds.
~ Sean Stephenson
I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
~ Barry Zito
It's curious that people go wrong so often between inferiority complex and self-confidence. Pitiful isn't it?
~ Unknown
There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.
~ Steven Moffat
I like 'Donnie Darko' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.
~ Mike Birbiglia
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.
~ Émile Coué
I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.
~ Zachary Cole Smith
The only patient being treated by the writer is himself
~ Philip Roth
pas la peine de creuser bien loin avec ces gens là, ils portent leur vieil inconscient en bandoulière
~ Philip Roth
He learned, like every good novelist, that human behaviour can neither be explained nor predicted, only rendered.
~ Philip Yancey
deconstructing a person is easier than constructing one.
~ Philip Yancey