Psychological Quotes - Page 25

• It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions. Change is not the same as transition. Change is situational: the new site, the new boss, the new team roles, the new policy. Transition is the psychological process people go through to come to terms with the new situation. Change is external, transition is internal

  William Bridges

  Change, Team, People

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• Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won't work, because it doesn't 'take'.

  William Bridges

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• When the most learned evolutionists can give neither the how nor the why, the marvels seem to show that adaptation is inexplicable. Yet those who cannot explain it will not admit that it is inexplicable. This is a strange situation, only partly ascribable to the rather unscientific conviction that evidence will be found in the future. It is due to a psychological quirk [in the minds of its advocates].

  Norman Macbeth

  Giving, Mind, Strange

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• I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

  Jim Hodges

  Growing Up, Writing, Emotional

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• The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as much more than interesting historical documents from centuries past. But read in aggregate, all that pain piles up. Essentially, Elder has amassed a collection of what people say when they know they are going to die, the final product of what could be seen as psychological torture.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Pain, Past, Men

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• Doctors are directly responsible for hooking millions of people on prescription drugs. They are also indirectly responsible for the plight of millions more who turn to illegal drugs because they were taught at an early age that drugs can cure anything - including psychological and emotional conditions - that ails them.

  Robert S. Mendelsohn

  Emotional, Doctors, People

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• It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.

  Denis Waitley

  Gains, Facts, Celebration

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• Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

  Jim Hodges

  Emotional, Pieces, Landscape

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• It's best to not confuse optimism with hope. Optimism is a psychological attitude toward life. Hope goes further. It is an anchor that one hurls toward the future, it's what lets you pull on the line and reach what you're aiming for and head in the right direction. Hope is also theological: God is there, too.

  Pope Francis

  Attitude, Anchors, Optimism

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• I am talking about the general psychological health
  of the species, man. He needs the existence of
  mysteries. Not their solution.

  John Fowles

  Men, Psychological Health, Talking

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• Differentiating from parental introjects and psychological defences based on the emotional pain of childhood is essential not only for neurotic or seriously disturbed individuals; it is a central developmental issue in every person’s life.

  Lisa Firestone

  Pain, Emotional, Issues

  Robert W. Firestone, Lisa Firestone, Joyce Catlett (2012). “The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation”, p.12, Routledge

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• Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Fashion, Together, Symbolic

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• Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

  Keith Henson

  Today, Evolution, Characteristics

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• We face a far greater risk of psychological depression than of economic recession.

  Todd G. Buchholz

  Risk, Economic Recession, Faces

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• Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first place and apprehensive of playing without dots. Music theory does not help here; it teaches rules of the grammar, but not what to say. When people ask me how to improvise, only a little of what I can say is about music. The real story is about spontaneous expression, and it is therefore a spiritual and a psychological story rather than a story about the technique of one art form or another.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Spiritual, Art, Real

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.9, Penguin

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• If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.

  Chris Prentiss

  Withdrawal, Substance, Behavior

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.25, BookBaby

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• Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Errors, Entrepreneur, Connections

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• If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.

  Thomas Nagel

  Determined, Feels, Conditions

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• Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension, overambition, excessive caution, and dozens of other psychological factors.

  Pal Benko

  Mistake, Errors, Feelings

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• Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in thoroughly favorable positions, and that this weakness has consistently tarnished his record.

  Hans Kmoch

  Mistake, Weakness, Records

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• It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

  David Bronstein

  Purpose, Tuning, Chess

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Friendship, Dog, Humble

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• I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.

  Robert Frost

  Spiritual, Healing, Profound

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• A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly.

  Bertrand Russell

  Writing, Average, Long

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Analysis of Mind: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.115, 谷月社

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• The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual.

  Terence McKenna

  Motivation, Views, Drug

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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