Quotes About Psychology

Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.

My brain acts bizarrely and I keep having major mood swings.

I do have mood swings which can go into extremes.

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

Symptoms that may seem psychiatric or psychological can actually be signs of a medical condition.

I'm someone who's experienced impostor syndrome - as I think a lot of people have with their careers, especially when they pursue what they're passionate about, because they want to be good at it. I've experienced that as a gay man; I've experienced that as a cook, as a gallery director, as a student of psychology.

The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.

Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked by one lip corner pulled up and in a dismissive sneer.

if you smile for no reason at all you will actually start to feel happy

Closure is overrated. Closure doesn't exist.

Moral psychology has a metaphysical foundation; self-interest implies community, and community, universality. Egoism has as its contrast altruism; but that contrast is otiose if the good of the self is the good of the others.

Everywhere and always, when human beings either cannot or dare not take their anger out on the thing that has caused it, they unconsciously search for substitutes, and more often than not they find them.

A person] will desire any object so long as he is convinced that it is desired by another person whom he admires.

Sometimes buried memories of abuse emerge spontaneously. A triggering event or catalyst starts the memories flowing. The survivor then experiences the memories as a barrage of images about the abuse and related details. Memories that are retrieved in this manner are relatively easy to understand and believe because the person remembering is so flooded with coherent, consistent information.

The subconscious is not a grave; it's a cistern.

Narrar es jugar al póquer con un rival que puede mirarte las cartas.

Tennis is not a gentle game. Psychologically, it is vicious. That people are only just beginning to come to terms with this fact illustrates just how big a con trick has been perpetrated on the non-playing tennis public - and even a few players, usually losing players - for decades.

people's stupidity probably explains much of what people do and don't do, as I have conceded all along in this book.

A writer who renders the brutal actions of men in excruciating detail, seldom applying the anesthetic of psychology, [Cormac] McCarthy would much rather orate than confide.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.