Quotes About Psychology

Conditions impact the behaviour of people.

It's really important for me to look good before a race. I definitely think if I feel I look good, it makes me feel more confident.

I have never met anyone who wasn't confused inside.

What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.

We know that there is a connection between our feelings and our brain.

I'm interested in psychology and how your surroundings can influence your character, and because of that, I think I try and take the very best from a situation, good or bad, and constantly work on myself.

Different kinds of people have different motivations for filling out surveys. Sometimes you would have a group of people who just would fill it out because they're bored, and they don't have anything to do. Or they would just genuinely want to know what is their personality.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do.

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.

I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.

I suspect I wasn't loved enough as a child.

I suspect that pleasure is mainly used to turn off parts of the brain so you can keep fresh the memories of things you're trying to learn. It protects the short-term memory buffers. That's one theory of pleasure.

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.

I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

Who, adult or child, is Michael Jackson truly close to? What and who is he trying to flee? What's the nature of the psychic damage he has so clearly sustained? I suspect his racial identity is more a byproduct of that damage than the primal cause.

Everybody has felt a little sweet but psycho, and I'm sure everybody has been called sweet but psycho.

I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.

The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.