Psychological Quotes - Page 21

• I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We’re not whole.

  Ezra Miller

  People, Growing, Our Society

  Interview with Kate Bosworth, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2011.

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• Faith is believing that the universe is on our side, and that the universe knows what it's doing. Faith is a psychological awareness of an unfolding force for good, constantly at work in all dimensions. Our attempts to direct this force only interferes with it. Our willingness to relax into it allows it to work on our behalf.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Relax, Sides

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• I find it impossible to subscribe to a philosophy that believes that the destruction of human life is a legitimate solution to a problem that is mostly social, economic and psychological,... In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice.

  Patricia Heaton

  Philosophy, Believe, Reality

  "Patricia Heaton receives mixed responses for pro-life tweet". www.foxnews.com. May 19, 2016.

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• Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it rightly insists that the 'behaviour' and the 'actions' of collectives, such as states or social groups, must be reduced to the behaviour and to the actions of human individuals. But the belief that the choice of such an individualist method implies the choice of a psychological method is mistaken.

  Karl Popper

  Mistake, Believe, Science

  "The Open Society and its Enemies".

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• Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Spiritual, Retreat

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• Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.

  Stephen Covey

  Survival, Needs, Next

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• When a player keeps a calm demeanor on the court, it's easier for his ability to shine. The best response to an opposing player's physical or psychological tactics is to keep cool and come right back at him with the force of your game, not your fists. Revenge is always sweeter if your team wins the game.

  Walt Frazier

  Revenge, Team, Winning

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• It is important as a mentalist to notice small things about people... little things such as being able to tell if someone is right or left handed by looking at which way their belt is pointing. Looking at a book of matches will tell you if they are right or left handed by the side the matches are removed.... It's important to notice these things because the more you do, the more you will realize that each person has little psychological nuances that tell you a lot about the individual. Doing so will tremendously sharpen your skills.

  Banachek

  Book, Skills, People

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• As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation was too high and offered fewer and fewer real rewards, psychological and spiritual.

  Duane Elgin

  Spiritual, Real, Simple

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• When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.

  Walter A. Davis

  Faith, Circles, Belief

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• The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.

  Georg Simmel

  Individuality, Individualism, Nervous

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• It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.

  Alexander McQueen

  Armor, Way, Dressings

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• For every grand and finely worded statement by the CEO, the brand is also defined by derisory consumer comments overheard in a hallway, or in a chat room on the Internet. Brands are sponges for content, for images, for fleeting feelings. They become psychological concepts held in the minds of the public, where they may stay forever. As such you can’t entirely control a brand. At best you can only guide and influence it.

  Scott Bedbury

  Forever, Feelings, Mind

  Scott Bedbury, Stephen Fenichell (2003). “A New Brand World: Eight Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the Twenty-First Century”, p.39, Penguin

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• Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear so obvious.

  Arthur Koestler

  Reality, Discovery, Obvious

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• In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and partly due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort of stuck to my guns for a while but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve.

  Jasper Johns

  Gun, Personality, Feelings

  Jasper Johns (1987). “Jasper Johns: The Seasons ; [exhibition] January 31-March 7, 1987, Leo Castelli Gallery”

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• Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophical, Reality, Thinking

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• Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age. They meet a need in the psychological or spiritual nature of humans that has absolutely nothing to do with science. To try to turn a myth into a science, or a science into a myth, is an insult to myths, an insult to religion, and an insult to science. In attempting to do this, creationists have missed the significance, meaning, and sublime nature of myths. They took a beautiful story of creation and re-creation and ruined it.

  Michael Shermer

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Struggle

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• I'm a very self-conscious person, I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances, it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Self, White

  "Sufjan Stevens: 'I've always been insecure about what I do'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Negativity, Denial, Power Of Now

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.61, New World Library

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• I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Cities, People, Want

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• It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than a century, still in the tournament with a chance of being the ultimate winner... Indeed, such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.

  Fred Hoyle

  Fun, Self, Ironic

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• Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.

  Andrew Marr

  Girl, Fashion, Hair

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• The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.

  Donald Knuth

  Levels, Lows, Ability

  Interview with Jack Woehr, Dr. Dobb's Journal, April 1996.

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• Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Life, Mean

  SIGMUND FREUD (1933). “NEW INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON PSYCHO-ANALYSIS”

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• You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

  David Einhorn

  Facts, Certain, Situation

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