Psychologist Quotes - Page 12

• The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.

  William James

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• ...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Feminist, Feminism, Reform

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists, and economic equilibrium theorists.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Media, Helping

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.

  James Thurber

  Reading, Book, Expression

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• It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the psychologist this means that imagination and desire are ahead of the possible reality. A deaf Beethoven created for the piano sounds never heard before and thus predetermined the development of the piano for several decades to come. The composer's creative spirit imposes on the piano rules to which it gradually conforms. That is the history of the instrument's development. I don't know of any case where the reverse occurred.

  Heinrich Neuhaus

  Mean, Reality, Piano

  Genrikh Gustavovich Neĭgauz, Heinrich Neuhaus (1973). “The art of piano playing”, Longwood Pr Ltd

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• I'm climbing into a vehicle that has a powerful influence on our culture. I'd like to make it do something good. The media is populated with attorneys, psychologists and pundits but there are only three physicians: me, Dr. Oz and Sanjay Gupta. We are the only MDs who practice medicine and have board certifications in one or two fields. That's it.

  Drew Pinsky

  Powerful, Climbing, Media

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If I wasn't a singer, I think I'd be studying to be a psychologist.

  Rihanna

  Thinking, Singers, Study

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• You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.

  Eric Idle

  Mother, Kids, Thinking

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• I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now Ive decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Reading, Character, Fiction

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• Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

  Naomi Weisstein

  Nature, World, Found

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• All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

  Mario Bunge

  Communication, Serious, Study

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• As a skilled psychologist, Dr. Reznick draws from her wealth of experience to offer children and parents a treasure trove of skills to relieve stress. She presents well-written, easy-to-follow tools to use in every situation. From visualization techniques to breathing exercises, Dr. Reznick taps the power of a child's imagination to ensure kids achieve peace and success.

  Judith Orloff

  Children, Stress, Kids

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• When a philosopher, scientist, or psychologist discusses the discrepancy between the actual and the ideal, he or she attempts to convince us with the tools of discursive thought ... An artist does it differently ... their primary approach is different, even though both groups, if you will, are investigating the actual, the ideal, and the discrepancy in between.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Artist, Convince Us, Discrepancies Between

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• To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Simple, Law, Cosmos

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.36, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.

  Clint Eastwood

  Analyzing, Kind, Like You

  "Clint Eastwood Describes His Near-Death Experience, Says 'American Sniper' Is Anti-War (Exclusive)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Hard Work, Parent

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• It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

  Edward de Bono

  Attention, Littles, Philosopher

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• Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

  Franz Kafka

  Work, Joy, Labor

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Stress, Might Use, Needs

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• A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

  Hillary Clinton

  Boys, Two, Desire

  "The last word from the first lady", www.theguardian.com. August 2, 1999.

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• Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Running, White, Coats

  "Daniel Kahneman: 'We're beautiful devices'". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2011.

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• My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.

  Meg Cabot

  Mother, Anger, People

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• But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.

  William James

  Circles, Two, Psychology

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.528, Courier Corporation

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• Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hate, Race, Lust

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.576, Vintage

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• The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Principles, Way, Action

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