Psychological Quotes - Page 35

• There is a push and a pull almost like an isometric stretch. Our literal flexibility and our physical, psychological and spiritual practices are more important now than ever to balance the boat.

  Brenda Strong

  Spiritual, Practice, Balance

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• A Separation Cosmology produces a Separation Psychology, a psychological viewpoint that says that I am over here and you are over there.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Psychology, Viewpoints, Separation

  Neale Donald Walsch (2013). “What God Said: The 25 Core Messages of Conversations with God That Will Change Your Life and th e World”, p.70, Penguin

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• If you're going to solve a weight-loss problem - or smoking problem for that matter - you must address both the psychological and physiological.

  Tony Robbins

  Loss, Smoking, Weight

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If a therapist is feeling insecure in therapy, a lot of therapists will try to sort of push that aside to try to do the therapy. Instead, we would ask people to get with that feeling of insecurity, because after all, the client is being asked to do the same thing. It has a kind of a quality of two human beings in the same situation, really, working through these psychological processes. And yeah, you hired me; I'm working for you as a therapist. But I'm not up here and you're down there. And what you're struggling with, at other times and with other areas I'm struggling with.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Struggle, Insecure, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Processes of avoiding the world within in order to try to regulate your behavior, or becoming entangled in your thoughts interfering with your ability to take advantage of what's around you, or losing contact with your values for fear that you'll know more about the places where you hurt - those kinds of processes are just normal psychological processes. And if you take the mode of mind that works great in 95 percent of your life and apply it within, it then implodes. It starts creating barriers, and that's true at work, it's true in our culture, true in our politics.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Hurt, Mind, Trying

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Anyone can do shock value. Develop enough tension and cue the music right, then have something jump out: It's almost impossible not to jump in your seat. But that doesn't leave any effect on you when you leave the movie theater. To me, the best horror is psychological horror. The Exorcist, The Shining, The Omen, things that kind of stick with you long after you've seen them. It's what you don't see. It's letting the audience think a little bit, not spelling it out for them. Giving them credit for using their own imaginations rather than sticking in gags and tricks.

  Daniel Myrick

  Thinking, Long, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Psychological Recession is the cluster of feelings that the present is really scary and the future will likely be worse. It comes from the sense you have no control over what's happening to you and you don't see a way to get your life back under control. It's the feeling that life is unfair; you paid your dues, you worked hard, and you ended up naked and vulnerable. There is no comfort to be found in the dismissal of the Psychological Recession as being just an idea; it is a real phenomenon with real consequences, all of them bad.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Real, Scary, Feelings

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

  Amos Oz

  Literature, Painting, Language

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense - there's a kind of soul-murder going on.

  Martha Stout

  Manipulation, Kind, Ultimate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• "The War on Consciousness" is really all physical manifestations and all those problems are ultimately just a war on your way of thinking. Especially now, when we're involved in the war on terror. Terror is a psychological term. Terrorism is a political term. Terrorist is a sociopolitical term. But terror is a psychological thing.

  Mark McGwire

  War, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the collaborative process, you create a real intimacy; everybody ends up sharing personal stories and personal observations and their philosophies, their psychological side. By the time you get to set, it just creates such a sense of trust and intimacy between the director and the actors. It's really, really great.

  Lynn Shelton

  Philosophy, Real, Intimacy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My philosophy on what makeup is...it's very different from what a woman's is. Makeup came from a very psychological place - of the peacock.

  Jeremy Renner

  Philosophy, Makeup, Different

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When a patient tells a doctor that every symptom is the most horrible ever - and the physical exam and labs are normal - we often suspect something psychological is going on. The symptoms aren't fake. They're physical manifestations of anxiety, depression, and stress. So while I'm always on the lookout for a serious underlying disease.

  Danielle Ofri

  Stress, Fake, Anxiety

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• In many instances violence - which obviously inflicts tremendous trauma on victims - also inflicts trauma on the perpetrator. Radical evil takes a lot of preparation, not just from an organizational point of view, but from brainwashing, psychological preparation and the legitimization of violence.

  Payam Akhavan

  Evil, Preparation, Violence

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In my experience, some of the biggest obstacles to becoming a successful entrepreneur aren't financial or structural - they are internal and psychological. It's important for dreamers to believe in themselves and their ideas, to fend off the skeptics and find others who will share in their dreams. Once you understand that being called "crazy" is a compliment, you realize that you can get beyond other people's opinions and zig when others zag.

  Linda Rottenberg

  Dream, Crazy, Believe

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Criticism is always going to be painful. You live through it. I'll live through it now. It's even harder when you're younger. You don't have the maturity. You're still developing. If you get damaged while you're developing, it's a psychological battle after that. Today, if I get the criticism, I'm not bothered...if I wear the wrong thing, I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Maybe when I was younger, I might have been more affected by that.

  Shania Twain

  Sleep, Maturity, Criticism

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Everything the CIA does is deniable. It's part of its Congressional mandate. Congress doesn't want to be held accountable for the criminal things the CIA does. The only time something the CIA does become public knowledge - other than the rare accident or whistleblower - is when Congress or the President think it's helpful for psychological warfare reasons to let the American people know the CIA is doing it.

  Douglas Valentine

  Thinking, People, President

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There are people who believe that there should be a standard psychiatric examination for every presidential candidate and for every president. But these are difficult issues because they can't ever be entirely psychiatric. They're inevitably political as well. I personally believe that ultimately ridding the country of a dangerous president or one who's unfit is ultimately a political matter, but that psychological professionals can contribute in valuable ways to that decision.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Country, Believe, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• People with what we call mental illness can indeed serve well, and people who have no discernible mental illness - and that may be true of Trump - may not be able to serve, may be quite unfit. So it isn't always the question of a psychiatric diagnosis. It's really a question of what psychological and other traits render one unfit or dangerous.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  People, Mental Illness, Dangerous

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There's an all-enveloping destructiveness in Donald Trump's character and in his psychological tendencies. But I've focused on what professionally I call solipsistic reality. Solipsistic reality means that the only reality he's capable of embracing has to do with his own self and the perception by and protection of his own self. And for a president to be so bound in this isolated solipsistic reality could not be more dangerous for the country and for the world. He's not psychotic, but I think ultimately this solipsistic reality will be the source of his removal from the presidency.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Country, Mean, Character

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I don't really think there's a need to have a men's line. I think a lot of the men's lines just take the products for women and put them in different containers. It's all psychological.

  Fredric Brandt

  Thinking, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Many of the soldiers suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, and have not been supported by the government when they've requested psychological help. Of course, the prisoners continue to suffer physically and psychologically. Much needs to be done - torture has a negative impact on everyone it touches, including us, Americans, as a nation.

  Rory Kennedy

  Stress, Soldier, Suffering

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I didn't really care about money. I really wanted to follow my bliss. I really wanted to do the things that would make my life satisfying, in the fullest sense, and I was never thinking about money when I made those decisions. And I certainly didn't want my life to be driven by money. I'd seen my father's' life driven that way, and, although again, in retrospect, I understand fully why he did that, I didn't wanna live looking for that kind of financial reward. I wanted to live with the emotional, psychological, and even moral reward of doing the kind of work I do, which is, y'know, writing.

  Neal Gabler

  Writing, Thinking, Emotional

  Source: www.slate.com

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• We noted the psychological problems facing many of the returning from Iraq veterans - of the 700,000 returning veterans, more than a 100,000 have been diagnosed with problems, but the numbers are likely to get worse, as those with multiple deployments return. We should have valued the loss of life as a result of these suicides, using the same procedures we used for the loss of those who died in combat.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Suicide, Loss, Deployment

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There's not a whole lot of similarity between the two societies, Russian and American. There are similarities behind psychological forces. One thing we can learn is that things can change pretty fast. And this idea that we know who we are and that things can only get so bad in this country - that's wrong.

  Masha Gessen

  Country, Similarity

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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