Quotes About Psychology

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a real experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information that you give to it from your forebrain.

Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you think or imagine to be true.

List here an experience from your past that is explained by the principles given in this chapter:

I reported many such case histories in my book New Faces, New Futures. Following its publication, and similar articles in leading magazines, I was besieged with questions by criminologists, psychologists, sociologists, and psychiatrists.

The self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behavior.

one that is vividly imagined. If we picture ourselves performing in a certain manner, it is nearly the same as the actual performance. Mental practice helps to make perfect.

Positive thinking" does indeed "work" when it is consistent with the individual's self-image. It literally cannot "work" when it is inconsistent with the self-image—until the self-image itself has been changed.)

create experience and control it, in the laboratory of our minds. Both experimental and clinical psychology have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.

Psycho-Cybernetics does not say that man is a machine. Rather, it says that man has a machine that he uses.

The Human Use of Human Beings

YOUR CASE HISTORY List here an experience from your past that is explained by the principles given in this chapter:

Both experimental and clinical psychology have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

Ne volim tugu, ?ini me zlim, zato se zavaravam bijesom.

The mind plays tricks on itself in order to stay in one piece.

But you never knew what went on inside someone else; how, over time, a thought could become an obsession, and a new shell could form and harden around it.

Women have always been far less violent than men, the author conceded. The facts speak for themselves. But why, then, he asked, are women so much more ferocious in their violence? It has always seemed to me that the answer lies in the question.

Crazy is a state of mind usually interpreted by other people.

the middle child's classic tendency to withdraw.

I'm psychology major who has no desire to work with people.

our culture tends to psychologize diseases it doesn't yet understand

A mad who knows that he is mad is not fully mad!

Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night.

The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard.