Quotes About Psychology

Social control is best managed through fear.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.

Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers.

And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

You get these fear memories that are hard to undo.

The sentiment of fear is nearly allied to that of hatred.

Fear usually looks like anger.

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in.

The market is a very emotional place that appeals to fear and greed.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.

I'm also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, "Do not actually put your hand in the alligator," while terror says, "Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist.

[...]you don't have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

Fear overrides all rational thinking

Fear is the brother of hate.

Fear is a belief - beliefs can be changed.