Psychology Quotes

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

I'd always been interested in psychology.

I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

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

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

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

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

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.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

Idleness is the parent 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.

I loved psychology and I loved history.