Psychology Quotes - Page 30

• I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring.

  Randy Orton

  Sports, Rings

  Source: www.espn.com

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• A primary flaw in my psychology is that I'll give people a hundred yards' worth of rope with which to hang themselves, but once they reach that hundred-yard line, I strangle them to death with it.

  Jim Goad

  Giving, People, Rope

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I believe that people want to be free. And that we face an enemy that murders innocent people to try to shake our psychology to get us to leave.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, People, Enemy

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality. You're living the moment.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Creating, Live In The Moment

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it sociobiology or evolutionary psychology - relating to where we get our moral sense and why we value the idea of altruism, and locating both answers in behavioral adaptations for the preservation of our genes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, Years, Lasts

  Source: inters.org

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• I want to be some kind of a pilot. And the other thing that I really like is psychology.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Pilots, Want, Kind

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I think psychology would be an easy transition and figuring out the human mind somehow.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Thinking, Mind, Transition

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Peter Kropotkin was surely on the left. He was one of the founders of what is now called 'sociobiology' or 'evolutionary psychology' with his book Mutual Aid, arguing that human nature had evolved in ways conducive to the communitarian anarchism that he espoused.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, Way, Arguing

  Source: libcom.org

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• It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then to biology, then experimental psychology, and finally on to history. Roughly. These are tendencies, and they tend to distinguish roughly between hard and soft sciences.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hands, Depth, Study

  Source: libcom.org

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• With regard to how I chose Pacifica, my story is interesting. I did not go to Pacifica to specifically become a therapist. I went to Pacifica to study Jungian psychology and archetypes and mythology and there were many different programs there.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Interesting, Different, Stories

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• There's not a lot of talking between actors - either between actors or between actors and directors. People think that they sit in rooms and talk about psychology and motivations. I don't think that happens much.

  Christopher Walken

  Motivation, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If your own strong ego clashes with other strong egos, you not going to get anywhere. I studied psychology and learned about the many parts of us that we need to integrate so we don't walk around feeling disconnected: personality, soul, ego. If you do feel disconnected, you need to ask which part is feeling that way. Your ego is there to boost you up, if recognized and used correctly.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Strong, Personality, Soul

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The world of psychology and the world of normal life tends to look down on obsession. It's not good for you, and certainly not good for your relationships. It's not good for a lot of things, but it's the only way to make a work of art.

  Michael Ventura

  Art, Looks, World

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring. From bell to bell, from when my entrance plays and I step through that curtain, people have to wonder what's going on inside that guy's head.

  Randy Orton

  Sports, Play, People

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I used to teach psychology, and I don't do that anymore. I teach spirituality. And the way that I teach now is just by listening. I listen a lot.

  Wayne Dyer

  Listening, Spirituality, Teach

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• I love the psychology versus math and logic. In algebra, "X" means any possible variable. I sort of think about "X" in terms of the equation of my own life. Adding "X" to my own life has given me a freedom that I didn't have before in the equation of my own existence.

  Allie X

  Mean, Math, Thinking

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• I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Men, Others Opinions

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.129, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Medicine

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• The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Sex, Simple, Mind

  "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.

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• Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.

  James Carville

  Important, What's Important, Ideology

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• I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.

  Dane Cook

  Careers, Awful, Ifs

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• It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Study, Prison, Absurd

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• Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

  Claire Danes

  Gun, Gadgets, Counter Terrorism

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• I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

  Claire Danes

  School, Psych, Class

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• Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

  Claire Danes

  Exercise, Discipline, People

  Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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