Psychology Quotes - Page 28

• In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.

  Atul Gawande

  Successful, Next Week, Broken

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• A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable to change violently as the result of a sudden fluctuation of opinion due to factors which do not really make much difference to the prospective yield; since there will be no strong roots of conviction to hold it steady.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Strong, Roots, Differences

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.138, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I don't have too much interest in teaching other people how to get rich. And that isn't because I fear the competition or anything like that - Warrenhas always been very open about what he's learned, and I share that ethos. My personal behavior model is Lord Keynes: I wanted to get rich so I could be independent, and so I could do other things like give talks on the intersection of psychology and economics. I didn't want to turn it into a total obsession.

  Charlie Munger

  Teaching, Independent, Ethos

  Charlie Munger's speech on the psychology of human misjudgment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 1995.

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• I like stories with lots of psychology.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Stories

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

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• The moment we make up our minds that we are going on with this determination to exalt God overall, we step out of the worldís parade... We acquire a new viewpoint; a new and different psychology will be formed within us; a new power will begin to surprise us by its upsurgings and its outgoings.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Determination, Mind, Different

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• Age is not based on chronology, but psychology.

  Tony Robbins

  Age, Chronology

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• In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.

  Terence McKenna

  Animal, Keys, World

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• Sometimes I think that kids who are given junk food then don't crave it as adults in the same way. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out what the psychology is behind it before I have children.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Zoe Lister-Jones Talks LOLA VERSUS, Her Ambitions to Direct and Write a Novel, and Her Next Film MOTHERFUCKER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 7, 2012.

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• I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.

  Lara Pulver

  Philosophy, Writing, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Revenge, Thinking, Essence

  Gilles Deleuze (2006). “Nietzsche and Philosophy”, p.32, A&C Black

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• Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Revenge, Principles, Spirit

  Gilles Deleuze (2006). “Nietzsche and Philosophy”, p.32, A&C Black

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• The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable or unfavorable about the beliefs of evangelical Christians, Catholics, Socinians, Deists, pantheists, materialists, or fetish worshipers, who all claim equal rights under American institutions? His teaching will indeed be "the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet omitted."

  Robert Dabney

  Christian, Teaching, Law

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• Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

  Dario Argento

  Character, Different, Asia

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• Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Men, Insult, Reason

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• First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major.

  John Leguizamo

  Art, Drama, School

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.

  Marianne Williamson

  Age

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I know that the United Kingdom is sometimes seen as an argumentative and rather strong-minded member of the family of European nations. And it's true that our geography has shaped our psychology. We have the character of an island nation - independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty.

  David Cameron

  Strong, Character, Independent

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's speech on Britain's membership of the EU, www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

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• You could make a feature about the world of tickling. You could include female ticklers and you could find out why people are ticklish, but I don't think it would be a great documentary, when you're spending 90 minutes just finding out about the physiology and psychology of tickling.

  David Farrier

  Thinking, People, Female

  "He made a movie about competitive tickling. But then things got truly weird". Interview with Michael O'Sullivan, www.washingtonpost.com. July 2, 2016.

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• One of the problems with studies that examine the effects of violent imagery is that they typically use mentally healthy psychology students. If you want to do a meaningful study, show movies like Body Double and Copycat to a group of sexual psychopaths the day before you release them.

  Park Dietz

  Meaningful, Healthy, Use

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

  Bailey Chase

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Bailey Chase from TV’s Longmire: Changing Roles, Changing Perspectives". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that "love your enemy" is to some a principle no one can ever live by.

  Robert Thurman

  Love You, Thinking, Ego

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What I remember the most about my childhood is constant fear and "good food." I don't want to get into the greasy, buttery, deep-fried, fatty, sugary, meaty, barbecued details here, but with no knowledge of healthy lifestyles or positive psychology, time took its toll on me.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Childhood, Healthy, Want

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• Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Teaching, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Our job with our digestion is to absorb nutrients and eliminate waste, and to not dwell on the waste - which is my issue with some of the pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga, by the way.

  Gary Kraftsow

  Jobs, Yoga, Issues

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• My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga.

  Gary Kraftsow

  Yoga, Depth, Degrees

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