Psychology Quotes

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

I think politics come out of psychology.

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing.

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

I loved psychology and I loved history.

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.

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

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.

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.

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.

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.

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 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.

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

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 can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.

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.