Psyche Quotes

You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

I was coming off of a lot of psyche meds and other things.

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

I think if you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else.

To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful!

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.

Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.

The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.