Psychology Quotes - Page 23

• We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Mediocrity, Jargon, Praise

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• Guilt is the mafia of the mind.

  Robert Mandel

  Mind, Mafia, Guilt

  Bob Mandel, Robert Steven Mandel (1984). “Open Heart Therapy”

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• I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Theatre, Cinema, Used

  "The Films Of Rainer Werner Fassbinder: A Retrospective", www.indiewire.com. July 29, 2011.

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• A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

  Stanley Smith Stevens

  Century, States, Surveys

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• Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

  Richard Wall

  Discipline, Study, Academic

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• No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

  Henry C. Link

  Kindness, Sacrifice, Discovery

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• You always catch the wrong players.

  Abe Lemons

  Sports, Player, Sports Psychology

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• Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, America, Promise

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• Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as complete a view as is possible anywhere of the way scientific method can be applied to psychological problems. Secondly, it is of immense practical importance, educationally, socially, and in regard to physiology and genetics.

  Raymond Cattell

  Science, Views, Two

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• I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.

  J. Robbins

  Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Disease, Should, Cures

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• I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period of a few years, they decided they wanted a nursery school, a play group (to watch over their children while they were studying). So in one of the garages that was near where we were having the classes, we established a play group area and the students volunteered to supervise. That eventually led to building a state-licensed nursery school, which was approved by the California department of social welfare.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Children, School, Years

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• Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, Religion, Culture

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .

  James Hillman

  Past, Race, Class

  "From Little Acorns: A Radical New Psychology". Interview with Scott London, weww.thesunmagazine.org. March 1998.

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• Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Understanding, Technique, Different

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• It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psychology, and that the rest should be left to other professions.

  Hans Haacke

  Artist, Issues, Would Be

  Hans Haacke (2016). “Working Conditions: The Writings of Hans Haacke”, p.15, MIT Press

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• People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

  David James

  Athlete, Thinking, People

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• There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

  Beatrice M. Hinkle

  Art, Philosophy, Humanity

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• Interesting survey in the current Journal of Abnormal Psychology: New York
  City has a higher percentage of people you shouldn't make any sudden moves
  around than any other city in the world.

  David Letterman

  Funny, New York, Moving

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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• What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Technology, Feelings

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• Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Thinking, People

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• I'm able to lead my life as well as make a film. My wife and my friends and people around me know that I do tend to distance myself a little bit during the making of a film, but I have to, it's a natural part of the process for me because you are indulging in the headspace of somebody else, you are investing in the psychology of somebody else and you are becoming somebody else, and so there isn't enough room for you and that somebody else.

  Guy Pearce

  Distance, Wife, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper, it is an uncannily perceptive exploration of male psychology… Pomeroy is a brave new voice capable of taking us beyond the clichés of war and its aftermath and into the secret heart of every man. This is simply the best novel I’ve read in a long time.

  Andrew X. Pham

  War, Heart, Men

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• For me, I hope last year was the last when anger, frustration and despair ruled my professional psychology.

  Margo Kingston

  Frustration, Years, Despair

  "New year resolutions". www.smh.com.au. January 13, 2003.

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• When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .

  Bill Vaughan

  Twists, Novelists, Fiction

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