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Quotes About Psychology

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.
~ Mike Nichols
There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need to do - or want to do - next. They see nothing wrong with it. They feel no guilt. They express no guilt. And it's not even certain what harm they do.
~ Mike Nichols
Such is the psychology of crowds that the majority will follow whoever appeared to be in power...
~ Unknown
Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
~ Milton Sapirstein
Aren't liars just storytellers who hate themselves?
~ Mimi Pond
In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life.
~ Mindy Kaling
A handful of experiences when I was small have made me a confirmed nonathlete. In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life." — Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns)
~ Mindy Kaling
It's funny when you decide you don't like someone. I am the kind of person who, if my feelings are unrequited, can completely detach from someone emotionally if I simply put my mind to it. That's why I'm always saying I would be a great serial murderer.
~ Mindy Kaling
An interviewer once asked me if I could sum up everything I know about psychology in ten words or less. I said, "Hell, I can do it in two words: People cope.
~ Mira Kirshenbaum
Was she terrifyingly beautiful? Was she so ignorant she didn't deserve the truth? Was she also a liar and thus it was something they did together? I don't believe in psychology; which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't.
~ Miranda July
I don't believe in psychology, which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't.
~ Miranda July
We had fallen in love; that was still true. But given the right psychological conditions, a person could fall in love with anyone or anything. A wooden desk -- always on all fours, always prone, always there for you. What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part -- there was no one to blame and no way to reverse it.
~ Miranda July
Tom began screaming, and I wondered if the baby's soft brain was, in this moment, changing shape in response to the violent stimuli. I tried to intellectualize the noise to protect the baby's psyche. I whispered: Isn't that interesting to hear a man scream? Doesn't that challenge our stereotypes of what men can do? And then I tried, Shhhhhhhhh.
~ Miranda July
?i ce masc? de tifon, ce m?nu?i chirurgicale te-ar putea proteja de infec?ia emanat? de amintire?
~ Unknown
Any program that your mind interprets as punishment is one your mind is bound to rebel against.
~ Mireille Guiliano
We increase our suffering through our attempts to avoid it
~ Unknown
Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.
~ Moliere
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
~ Moliere
The personal aspects of which one is ashamed are often felt to be radically evil. While some things truly are evil and destructive, frequently shadow material is not evil. It is only felt to be so because of the shame attached to it due to its nonconformity with the persona.
~ Unknown
just because one suffers from depression, from childhood memories, or from whatever does not necessarily mean that one is not in the grip of a power complex!
~ Unknown
1. Curved mirrors of symbolism metamorphoses. (Distortion of reality by imagination). 2. An indelible smile of the psyche, endowed with resentment for life. 3. Tears make the world transparent. 4. Insight anabolics are the basis of motivation. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich
~ Unknown
A woman in a relationship subconsciously continues to play with childish voodoo dolls manipulated with guilt.
~ Unknown
An aphorism is a neuro-argument. Science psychology culture and philosophy must have neuro-evidence. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich
~ Unknown