Psychology Quotes - Page 2

• Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.

  Maddie Hasson

  Writing, Actors, Ifs

  "EXCLUSIVE: Maddie Hasson Talked With Us About 'Twisted'". Interview with Amy Crooks, www.dis411.net. February 5, 2014.

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• I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Book, Writing, Writing A Book

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• There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.

  Karen Horney

  People, Normal

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• It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.

  Antonis Samaras

  Culture, Break, Leftists

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.

  Celia Green

  Special, Cases, Committees

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

  Helene Deutsch

  Normal, Partition, Diseased

  Helene Deutsch (1973). “Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue”, W. W. Norton

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• Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness

  Eugene Gendlin

  Moving, Space, Giving

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• Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

  Dorothy Rowe

  Inspirational, Depression, Depressing

  Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

  William James

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Nature, Interesting, Focus

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, p.128, Basic Books

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• An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Simple, People

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• For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else will love you.”…The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation

  Bruce D. Perry

  Love, Truth, Health

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• Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Essentials, Sometimes, Forgotten

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• How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Sigmund Freud (1960). “Letters”

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• When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be much more supportive and happier with family life. Also when allowed to help make rules, they will follow them much closer than if rules are forced on them. All these add up to a happier home for all.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Family, Happy, Children

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• If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

  David Allen

  Education, Perspective, Innovation

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2009

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• I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the subjective, are actually united, when the tormenting conflicts or contradictions between my consciousness and my body will have been factually resolved or discarded.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Science, Important, Body

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• To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.

  Thomas Nagel

  Believe, Looks, Action

  Thomas Nagel (1991). “Mortal Questions : Canto”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

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• In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

  David Horowitz

  Ignorance, Practice, Socialism

  David Horowitz (2016). “The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz”, p.162, Encounter Books

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• A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

  Leon Festinger

  Confidence, Men, Facts

  Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter (2013). “When Prophecy Fails”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

  Ann Brashares

  Being Happy, Women, Talking

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• Enter into children's play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet.

  Virginia Axline

  Children, Heart, Games

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• Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

  Voltaire

  Men, Thinking, Mad

  Letter (1762)

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• We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Science, Important

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