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.

My brother is nine years older than I am. He's a psychology professor, I'm an actor, and so we look at life in two different ways. We thought it would be interesting to come together and take our unique perspectives and share them with everybody else.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

I have not thought too much about the psychology or life of the character Jonas in some time.

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.

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

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.

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

I'd always been interested in psychology.

I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.

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.

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.

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

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 took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.

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.

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

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

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.

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.