Quotes About Psychology

The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.

Behavioral economics offers a plausible explanation for overreactions by the market. For example, a long period of bad performance can lead to stereotyping.

Football is a game you play with your mind.

Someone like Shane Warne played the game on and off the field really well and got into guys' heads. Even though he couldn't bounce you and hurt you physically, he was verbally aggressive and would let you know he'd get you out. He made batsmen doubt themselves. I learned from players like him and made a point of incorporating it into my own game.

I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.

Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make - and that has to always be plot driven.

Badlapur' is a drama, a character-driven story. It is not so much about plot.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

I've always been interested in why do people behave in certain ways which are crazy from a normal point of view.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.

There are different psychologies that different coaches have.

The economy is a collection of emotions.

I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.

I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.

Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.

Before being a person, man is an animal, with all its reptilian compulsions. And if at some point you block the conscious part of the mind, you've got all the reptilian compulsions that come out.

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.