Quotes About Psychology

Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

Very, very good Pavlov, all your dogs have barked when you rang the bell. Your test was successful.

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

I haven't been in a good mood since I was 6 years old

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.

Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.

It's interesting about people who choke. I'm, believe it or not, a good athlete. I've watched people choke over the years.

When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.

Forgetting is a very good survival mechanism.

I think when you have a good warm up you feel good about your performance. You know that you've trained so mentally you're in a better state.

I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.