Psychology Quotes

This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.

For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

I need to do psychology classes. That would be so interesting to me, studying people.

I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving it.

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.

The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.

I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.

I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and 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.