Psychology Quotes - Page 10

• I like newspaper stories that are incomplete, that give me room to imagine the rest. It's no good to me reading about something that's all neatly solved and wrapped up. That's why so many of my stories revolve around human psychology, around why someone commits a certain crime, or series of crimes. I don't profess to know the answers but I like to explore the possibilities.

  Peter Robinson

  Reading, Giving, Stories

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• We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank and open our behaviour we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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• Positive psychology is both a movement and a science. The movement involves absolutely anyone who is interested in evidence-based approaches to improving well-being, either for themselves or for their community. I invite you to join this movement!

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Community, Movement, Evidence

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Art, Pursuit Of Happiness, Research

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• Positive thinking is just one small part of positive psychology. Plus, as an approach to well-being, positive thinking only helps you to the extent that it yields one or more positive emotions. The problem with positive thinking is that it sometimes just stays up "in the head" and fails to drip down to become a fully embodied experience.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Positive Thinking, Yield, Being Positive

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• My all-time favorite topic in positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. I'm fascinated by how pleasant experiences, which can be so subtle and fleeting, can add up over time to change who we become. I'm especially excited these days about investigating how positive emotions change the very ways that our cells form and function to keep us healthy.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Cells, Healthy, Add

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• Positivity psychology is part and parcel of psychology. Being human includes both ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. Positive psychology devotes somewhat more attention to the ups and the opportunities, whereas traditional psychology - at least historically - has paid more attention to the downs.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Positivity, Opportunity, Challenges

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.

  Tara Brach

  Self, Feelings, Path

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• The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

  Gordon Allport

  Becoming, Acquiring Knowledge, Hints

  Gordon Willard Allport (1955). “Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”, p.23, Yale University Press

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• It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

  Jeb Bush

  Dad, Motivation, People

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• The psychology degree is simply that I was a chemistry major, and they kept wanting the correct answer, whereas in psychology you basically write whatever you want, and chances are you get a B.

  Jon Stewart

  Writing, Degrees, Answers

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• It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.

  Napoleon Hill

  Moving, Principles, Humans

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• If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red pill, learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Religious, Stupid, Thinking

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• The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Justice, Democracy, Principles

  "An oft-repeated 'truth'" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2004.

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• A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting.

  Alex Blumberg

  Interesting, Boring, Social

  "Here’s How to Get Rich or Die Podcasting". Interview with Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. December 25, 2015.

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• There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Inspirational Psychology includes the practical application of identifying the thoughts and mistaken beliefs that cause us pain, along with a contemplative practice to discover our true nature, which is Love.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Pain, Practice, Causes

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Inspirational Psychology brings peace and choice to life even in the most difficult of situations.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Choices, Difficult, Situation

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Essentially, what the most important questions we can ever ask ourselves are, "Who am I? Who are we all? What do we share, and what is our purpose here? How do we discover meaning?" Addressing these questions is the core of Inspirational Psychology.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Important, Purpose, Share

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• More succinctly put, Inspirational Psychology offers ways to live, learn about, and practice love.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Practice, Way, Offers

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Within Inspirational Psychology, health doesn't refer to just the state of the body, but also the state of the mind, which affects the body.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Mind, Body, States

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I consider it as a foreshadowing of modernity in many different respects, and the consistency of character is interesting to the emerging modern psychology. The emphasis on dream knowledge relates quite deeply to psychoanalysis, although I suppose psychoanalysis wouldn't like to say that... Freud was always saying he was a scientist.

  Marina Warner

  Dream, Character, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The model of the educational Kalila Wa-Dimna. These are books of instruction to rulers and humans. The stories unfold a range of human psychology, a vast range of human psychology. The Sultan is being moved from his narrow and bigoted position into a wider, more subtle, more nuanced understanding of human experiences.

  Marina Warner

  Educational, Book, Understanding

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Love can make you turn on yourself, and it can do harmful things to you. It's a deep lesson in human psychology, as with many of the stories. Anyways, that's just an example of one of the most wicked women in the Nights.

  Marina Warner

  Night, Wicked, Example

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The effects of Twitter and Facebook and all those things on people's psychologies is a really interesting question to which nobody knows the answer.

  Paul Bloom

  People, Interesting, Answers

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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