Quotes About Psychology

Color is powerful. It is almost physiologically impossible to be in a bad mood when you're wearing bright red pants.

I'm quite certain that if I lost my sense of humor, it would most definitely need to be replaced by a padded cell.

What if there's no such thing as PMS, and this is just my personality?

Apparently it takes, like, forty-seven muscles to frown. Flippin' the bird' s a hell of a lot easier.

Analyzing dreams is much like walking on water. There are a limited number of people who do it well.

My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.

I can't answer you in a nutshell. We wouldn't fit unless we saw the same shrink.

The difference between your crazy and my crazy is that you don't think you're crazy.

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

The sick are victims of their own imagination.

As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as to why you are doing it. You are finding what drives people to do this.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.