Psychology Quotes - Page 22

• The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

  Charles Jencks

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Medicine

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• All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.

  Pema Chodron

  Philosophy, Character, Medicine

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• Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Dream, Philosophy, Self

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• The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

  Carl Jung

  Philosophy, Self, Medicine

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• Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal domains in our lives. Cardiac, endocrine, and immune functions are improved with mindfulness practices. Empathy, compassion, and interpersonal sensivity seem to be improved. People who come to develop the capacity to pay attention in the present moment without grasping on to their inevitable judgments also develop a deeper sense of well-being and what can be considered a form of mental coherence.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Philosophy, Compassion, Practice

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• The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Philosophy, Rain, Medicine

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.438, New Directions Publishing

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• Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Medicine, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• But insensate Time is nothing if not cruel and heartless. It corrodes then destroys, so that the man you literally and figuratively looked up to with your chubby face, who scooped you up to cross the street and patted you on the head to laughter, will later look through you from a crooked hospital bed then blindly up at you while wearing makeup in a bargain casket. The people who now surround you generating warmth will disappear leaving only an empty chill; the body you own and the brain it houses will malfunction.

  Sergio De La Pava

  Laughter, Philosophy, Men

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• We have more experience of movement and more capacity for it than of feeling and thought... We know much more about movement than we do about anger, love, envy or even thought. It is relatively easy to learn to recognize the quality of movement than the quality of other factors.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Philosophy, Medicine, Envy

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• Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.

  Jack Kornfield

  Philosophy, Medicine, Waiting

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• What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?

  Sam Keen

  Philosophy, Medicine, Risk

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• We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Meaningful, Philosophy, Struggle

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• To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mother, Philosophy, Mean

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• My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

  Simon Newcomb

  Way, Fields, Firsts

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology.

  Bob Paisley

  Interest, Physiotherapy

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• Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.

  Eric Ries

  People, Want, Able

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• Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.

  Karrine Steffans

  Men, Differences, Relate

  "FEATURE: Karrine Steffans, Head of the Class". XXL Interview, www.xxlmag.com. July 13, 2009.

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• It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology, their thought forms, their lingual structures, their history, their present moment, their future ideas, and the quality of their emotions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhism, Ideas

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• For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.

  Rumer Willis

  School, Thinking, Doctors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

  Criss Jami

  Trying, Language, Study

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.94, Criss Jami

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• Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Poison, World

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• Opportunities change, strategies change, but people and psychology do not change. If trend-following systems don’t work well, something else will. There’s always money being lost, so someone out there has to win.

  Gil Blake

  Winning, Opportunity, People

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• I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

  Tara Brach

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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• And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.

  Zoe Kazan

  Children, Thinking, Giving

  "Ruby Sparks writer-star Zoe Kazan on love, relationships, and biology". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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• For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

  Joan Halifax

  Philosophy, Mean, Buddhism

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