Quotes About Psychology

a lingering sense that something was very wrong with him. That sense is called shame.

If you feel ugly you will experience shame. The two are bound together.

Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing was expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he declared: The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.

A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

The human mind is generative, creative, proactive, and reflective -- not just reactive.

It requires conducive social conditions, rather than monstrous people, to produce heinous deeds.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

For many years now I have had the quaint idea that all humans-yes, the whole six billion of them on this planet-are out of their fucking minds.

The danger of LSD lies not in its toxicity, but rather in the unpredictability of its psychic effects.

When you try to extinguish a tantrum by ignoring it, the first response you always get is called an extinction burst. People will do whatever it is you are trying to ignore louder, longer, and more enthusiastically. This might make you believe that ignoring them isn't working, but what it actually means is that it is.

To be psychologically healthy, we have to believe that what we do has some effect on what happens to us. Even if the perception of control is delusional, it usually leads to more productive action than believing that what we do makes no difference.

Not only do Histrionics not understand themselves; they don't have a clue why anyone does anything. Their understanding of psychology and physics is often tinged with magic. They may believe that things happen because of the alignment of stars, the vibrations of crystals, or the intervention of guardian angels. If you suggest otherwise, they'll just think you're crazy.

Emotional Vampires are not intrinsically evil, but their immaturity allows them to operate without thinking about whether their actions are good or bad. Vampires see other people as potential sources for whatever they happen to need at the moment, not as separate human beings with needs and feelings of their own. Rather than evil itself, vampires' perceptual distortion is a doorway through which evil may easily enter.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

porque —oh viejo hermoso Sigmund Freud— la ciencia psicoanalítica se olvidó la llave en algún lado: abrir se abre pero ¿cómo cerrar la herida?

What is it with boys? How do they slide into fucked-upness so quickly, with such natural ease?

it. In the mind there is no free will, but the mind is determined to will this or that by a cause that is also determined by another, and this again by another, and so on to infinity.