Psychological Quotes - Page 24

• In this war, which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in military science. It seems to me that not the least of these was the development of psychological warfare as a specific and effective weapon.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, War, Development

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• Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Doubt, Warfare

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• According to a recent study, ten percent of 'Star Trek' fans meet the psychological criteria for addiction. Deprived of their favourite show, some Trekkies disply withdrawal symptoms similar to drug addicts. Of course, the real difference is that drug addicts aren't nearly as annoying.

  Jay Leno

  Stars, Real, Differences

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• Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to bear on making sense of their illusions and delusions. What then would the truth have to be, such that such human beings are FIT TO KNOW IT at all, even provisionally or tentatively?

  Kenny Smith

  Fitness, Truth, Practice

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• My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Health, Emotional, Thinking

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• Count your blessings for selfish reasons! Psychological studies show that people who are aware of their blessings and feel grateful for them live longer than non-grateful people, have fewer medical problems such as hypertension, earn more and achieve longer marriages.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Gratitude, Selfish, Grateful

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• Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

  Joanna Trollope

  Names, Differences, Perception

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• Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong.

  Li Ka-shing

  Impact, Numbers, Sound

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• The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in the most efficient way to see to it that they have the fewest dissenting opinions, that they have just those characteristics which are wholly incompatible with being an intellectual. This is a real internal psychological contradiction. People have to suppress the very questions which reading books raises.

  Mario Savio

  Military, Real, Reading

  "The University Has Become a Factory". Interview with Jack Fincher, Life magazine, February 26, 1965.

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• If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don't mess with you much. What that means is you've got nine hours of free time every day to devote to generating psychological stress toward other animals in your troop. So the baboon is a wonderful model for living well enough and long enough to pay the price for all the social-stressor nonsense that they create for each other. They're just like us: They're not getting done in by predators and famines, they're getting done in by each other.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Stress, Mean, Animal

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• Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124).

  Edith Schaeffer

  Spiritual, Emotional, Blood

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like The Exorcist, The Shining, even though they scare the living daylights out of me.

  Emmanuelle Vaugier

  Shining, Scare, Things I Love

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• Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Powerful, Color, Force

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• Make no mistake: Satan’s specialty is psychological warfare. If he can turn us on God (“It’s not fair!”), or turn us on others (“It’s their fault!”), or turn us on ourselves (“I’m so stupid!”), we won’t turn on him. If we keep fighting within ourselves and losing our own inner battles, we’ll never have the strength to stand up and fight our true enemy.

  Beth Moore

  Mistake, Stupid, Fighting

  Beth Moore (2008). “Believing God Day by Day: Growing Your Faith All Year Long”, B&H Publishing Group

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• Niceness is the psychological armor of the people-pleaser.

  Harriet B. Braiker

  People, Armor, Niceness

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• [Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Motivation, Inspiration, Domestic Violence

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• [Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.

  James Randi

  Motivation, Inspiration, Psychics

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• I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean.

  C.P. Snow

  Ocean, Moving, Two

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• The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a profession, what will be apparent will be the need for gratification—if not instant, then certainly relatively immediate. Reporters take sustenance from their bylines; they are a reflection of who you are, what you do, and why, to an uncommon degree, you exist. ... A journalist always wonders: If my byline disappears, have I disappeared as well?

  David Halberstam

  Reflection, Degrees, Doe

  David Halberstam (2002). “The Best and the Brightest”, p.15, Modern Library

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• Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.

  Nicky Oppenheimer

  Psychological Needs, Diamond, Worthless

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• The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the psychological meaning of the tale (although this contributes to it) but from its literary qualities-the tale itself as a work of art.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Art, Quality, Enchantment

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

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• A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.

  James Rachels

  Feelings, Moral, Explanation

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• Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology when it implies finding meaning or pattern where none exists; and some positive ones when it implies finding something important, useful or beautiful. It thus links creativity and psychosis, genius and madness.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Beautiful, Creativity, Mean

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• The way you reach that awareness is through an inner journey that brings about an emotional, psychological, and spiritual transformation. A deep inner shift in your reality occurs, aligning you with the creative energy of the Universe. Such change is possible when you invite Spirit to open up the eyes of your awareness to the abundance that is already yours.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spiritual, Eye, Journey

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• There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Stress, Exercise, Growth

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