Psych Quotes

• There is no suggestion box in the Psych Ward.

  Emilie Autumn

  Suggestions, Boxes, Suggestion Boxes

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• Individuals can refuse to use a given technology, but unless they live in total isolation will have to engage with people whose psyches have been shaped by a multitude of technologies. And there is no escaping the pervasive ecological effects.

  Stephanie Mills

  Technology, Escaping, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude-that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

  Stephen Covey

  Attitude, Integrity, Self Esteem

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.

  Lois Lowry

  Goodbye, Real, Character

  "Lois Lowry, ‘Son’ And ‘The Giver’ Author, Reflects On Dystopian Novels, Psychopaths And Why Kids Make The Best Audiences". Intervoew with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 05, 2012.

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• Our fans are like rabid beasts that rub themselves with the nectar that is 'Psych'.

  James Roday

  Fans, Beast, Nectar

  "James Roday Answers 'Psych' Fan Questions". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.starpulse.com. June 17, 2009.

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• I don't have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally - I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.

  Chris Kyle

  Hair, People, Enemy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul answered, I hear birds in the morning when everyone's sleeping, I hear trees rustling when no one's around.

  Nick Flynn

  Morning, Sleep, Doctors

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the feral nature from our psyches.

  Yasmine Galenorn

  Water, Tree, Forests

  Yasmine Galenorn (2011). “Totem Magic: Dance of the Shapeshifter”, p.183, Crossing Press

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• I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

  Darrell Hammond

  Long, Institutions, Long Time

  "Darrell Hammond Performed on 'SNL' Same Week He Was Taken From NBC in Straitjacket" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 26, 2011.

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• You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.

  James Cagney

  Acting, Audience, I Can

  "Cagney by Cagney". Book by James Cagney, 1976.

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• We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Desire, Belief, Contradiction

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.107, Penguin

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• I know how you feel. I’ve been analyzed to death as well. Not, like, professionally, though I did date a psych major who said I had attention issues. Or at least that’s what I think he said. I wasn’t really paying attention. Anyway, where was I?

  Darynda Jones

  Thinking, Issues, Attention

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.107, Macmillan

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• The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Running, Creating, Soul

  "Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

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• He put the book down. “As you wish.” He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting him to pass, but suddenly he stepped in dangerously close. “Welcome home. I’m glad you made it. There is coffee in the kitchen for you.” My mouth gaped open. He inhaled my scent, bent close, about to kiss me… I just stood there like an idiot. Curran smirked and whispered in my ear instead. “Psych.” And just like that, he was out the door and gone. Oh boy.

  Ilona Andrews

  Coffee, Book, Home

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.245, Penguin

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• We may love men and we may live with men, but some of them have said stupendously inaccurate things about us, our bodies, and our psyches.

  Natalie

  Men, Body, May

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• But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The human place, which our species inhabited for most of its evolutionary life. That place that shaped our psyches and made us who we are. The place where nature is big and we are small.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Believe, Who We Are, Environment

  Geraldine Brooks (2011). “Boyer Lectures 2011: The Idea of Home”, p.12, HarperCollins Australia

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• Ultimately, any character you write - no matter how fantastic or alien - is an extension of yourself. When our characters reflect the truth of our souls and psyches, they become real and compelling. The wonderful paradox is that the characters then take on lives of their own, separate from their creators. That's where the magic comes in.

  J. M. DeMatteis

  Real, Book, Character

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• I don't think it is as a trope or as something in our psyches. There's very little wilderness out there but there is wild mind, and the Wild mind that actually, as Gary Snyder says, wants to take care of things. There's an elegant quality to the wild mind.

  Anne Waldman

  Thinking, Mind, Quality

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately these things do not satisfy human longings.

  Desmond Tutu

  Sex, Thinking, People

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Morning, Humor

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• I try not to look at stories on the Internet because I don't want to psych myself out. I kinda half to stay off the Internet. I'm not thick-skinned enough. I get too sensitive. I don't want it to effect what I'm doing.

  Emma Stone

  Trying, Looks, Stories

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• The way I dress depends on how I feel. I never have to psych myself up. Usually it just feels like it works.

  Rihanna

  Dresses, Way, Feels

  Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2015.

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• Whether youre working in corporate America or youre a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - were all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When Psych ends, I will be looking for another job.

  Dule Hill

  Teacher, Jobs, Construction Workers

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• Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate gifts, and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed. There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because the world around them is blind to it.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Mean, Unique, Two

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1999). “The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community”, J P Tarcher

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• Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact, specific marketing advice can sometimes harm the novice poet by enticing him to pursue fashions. The poet's best hope is to sound like nobody else, The finest, most enduring poetry constructs a marketplace of its own.

  X. J. Kennedy

  Fashion, Mistake, Writing

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