Psychological Quotes - Page 32

• I hesitate to say I was the class clown, but that was kind of how I interacted with other kids in school, and I very much appreciated the responses I got. The validation of laughter is often a very heavy psychological balm.

  Simon Pegg

  Laughter, Kids, School

  "Simon Pegg on George Romero's phone call and holding Carrie Fisher in his arms". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2015.

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• The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the idea of really working off other people. I'm having more fun doing that.

  Robin Williams

  Fun, Drama, Ideas

  "Robin Williams Interview License To Wed". Wild About Movies Interview, www.wildaboutmovies.com.

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• I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.

  John Oliver

  Doctors, Degrees, Rooms

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Effectiveness, Has Beens, Replaced

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.35, A&C Black

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• From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

  Soseki Natsume

  Race, Vacuums, May

  Natsume Soseki (2011). “I Am a Cat”, p.253, Tuttle Publishing

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• The consistent finding of psychological research is that we are fairly accurate in our perceptions of others. It's our self-perceptions that are distorted because we look at ourselves in a rose-colored mirror.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Mirrors, Self, Rose

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.66, Basic Books

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• The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Attachment, Parent, Partners

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.130, Basic Books

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• Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

  Richard Dawkins

  Unique, Data, Forever

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• I love going to plays. There's a subconscious side to it, obviously-some people like to be spanked for XYZ psychological reasons, and I like to go to plays, and I can't entirely explain why.

  Wallace Shawn

  Play, People, Sides

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• You can't blame all people's psychological ills on religion. A lot of people were crazy before they got in a religion and they just happen to be crazy and religious.

  Lino Rulli

  Religious, Crazy, People

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

  Mark Strong

  Needs, Never Quit, Shifting

  Source: collider.com

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• Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.

  Emma Goldman

  Ideas, Needs, Neglect

  "Living My Life". Book by Emma Goldman, p. 402, 1931.

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• I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Drama, Events, Speech

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• A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.

  John Stuart Mill

  Difficulty, Impossibility

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• When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good - and please don't regard me as wholly evil!"

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Evil

  "The Virtue of Selfishness". Book by Ayn Rand, 1964.

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• There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, lead to one or another impulse to act. The root meaning of the word emotion, remember, is "to move.

  Daniel Goleman

  Moving, Emotional, Skills

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.137, Bantam

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• In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Technique

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• The brain is a stubborn organ.  Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and beliefs.  This has profound consequences for individuals and society and helps to explain why some people cannot abandon destructive beliefs, be they religious, political or psychological.

  Andrew B. Newberg

  Religious, People, Profound

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• Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

  R. D. Laing

  Enlightenment, Breakthrough, Breakdown

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• [Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown into an ultimately meaningless and unknowable universe ...and the psychological and biological crisis of living in a world that has come to be shaped in such a way that it precisely matches his world view-i.e., in a man-made environment that is increasingly mechanistic, atomized, soulless, and self-destructive.

  Richard Tarnas

  Men, Self, Views

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• Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Views, Long, Appreciate

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1955). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an autobiography: with musings on recent events in India”

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• There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes it hard for them to live together. But the fact that in civilized societies mothers-in-law are such a favourite subject for jokes seems to me to suggest that the emotional relation involved includes sharply contrasted components. I believe, that is, that this relation is in fact an 'ambivalent' one, composed of conflicting affectionate and hostile impulses.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mother, Believe, Son

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.17, Routledge

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• The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance of a compassionate life as opposed to a passionate life.

  George Lucas

  Responsibility, Issues, Passionate

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• To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

  Bell Hooks

  Psychics, Maintenance, Denial

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• You can wear your hair long or wear a beard because you want to show that you are interested in thought, in psychological endeavors rather than appearance.

  Emilio Pucci

  Hair, Long, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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