Psychology Quotes - Page 31

• If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

  Claire Danes

  Thinking, Information, Actresses

  "Claire Danes' Glamour January Issue Cover-Shoot". Glamour interview, www.glamour.com. January 2014.

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• The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

  Umberto Eco

  Criticism, Important, Literature

  "Literary game of drafts" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2002.

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• Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

  Umberto Eco

  Hero, Character, Oedipus

  "The art of creating a legend" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2002.

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• I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.

  Gloria Estefan

  School, Home, Thinking

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• By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

  Jodie Foster

  Directors, Shooting, Firsts

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• I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

  Jodie Foster

  Bases

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• Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

  William Glasser

  Friendship, Caring, Trying

  William Glasser, M.D. (2010). “Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.

  Daniel Goleman

  College, Meditation Practice, Class

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• Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Philosophy, Real

  "What Is It Like to Be a Baby?". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.scientificamerican.com. September 1, 2009.

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• I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

  Nhat Hanh

  Healing, Buddhism, Thinking

  "This Is The Buddha's Love". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.pbs.org. June 3, 2010.

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• Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.

  Tippi Hedren

  People, Childhood, Adults

  "The blonde queen of King Alfred (II)". Interview with Anita Chaudhuri, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 1999.

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• I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

  Werner Herzog

  Thinking, Reflection, Self

  "Mad German Auteur, Now in 3-D!". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. April 29, 2011.

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• People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, People, Serious

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• That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Impossible, Christianity

  Masudul Hasan, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1978). “Stories and Biographies from Iqbal”

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• For people that don't have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don't want to analyze... those aren't the people I romanticize about dressing.

  Marc Jacobs

  People, Nuance, Faces

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• Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, People, Decision

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• Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

  Nicole Kidman

  People, Actors, Emotion

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Dec 09, 2016

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• Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

  Val Kilmer

  Serial Killer, Want, Killers

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• Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

  R. D. Laing

  Love, Life, Worth Living

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• Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

  George Lucas

  Doe, Culture, Done

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• I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

  Tatiana Maslany

  People, Screens

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• Well, I'm not sure what pop psychology is, but I don't like it.

  Phil McGraw

  Pops, Not Sure, Wells

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

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• Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot.

  Jon Meacham

  Sibling, Plot, Action

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• Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

  Jean Piaget

  Views, Transition, Levels

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• Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

  Steven Pinker

  Four, Human Nature, Humans

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 18, 2017.

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