Psychology Quotes - Page 33

• I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Mask, Curious, Behinds

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• But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.

  William James

  Circles, Two, Reason

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.528, Courier Corporation

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• While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, Opinion, Stranger

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• The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

  Carl Jung

  Individual, Mass, Psychopathology

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire.

  Noam Chomsky

  Appreciation, Art, Reading

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• The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.

  D. A. Carson

  Encouragement, Teaching, Effort

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• Where’s your sketch pad?” I asked. … “I gave that up,” Kay said. “I wasn’t very good, so I changed my major.” “To what?” “To pre-med, then psychology, then English lit, then history.” “I like a woman who knows what she wants.” Kay smiled. “So do I, but I don’t know any.

  James Ellroy

  Want, Pads, Said

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• We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Philosophy, Self

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• In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life.

  Mindy Kaling

  Twilight, Thinking, Stories

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.30, Crown/Archetype

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• Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?

  Carrie Fisher

  Mind, Textbooks, Abnormal

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Was she terrifyingly beautiful? Was she so ignorant she didn't deserve the truth? Was she also a liar and thus it was something they did together? I don't believe in psychology; which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't.

  Miranda July

  Beautiful, Liars, Believe

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be lost forever. It’s sort of like my past is an unfinished painting and as the artist of that painting,I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

  Lady Gaga

  Beautiful, Memories, Past

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• Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive sort, then you're more apt than the average person to feel pleasantly overwhelmed by Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" or a well-turned phrase or an act of extraordinary kindness. You may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience.

  Susan Cain

  Strong, Kindness, Average

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.14, Broadway Books

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• It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously

  Tony Benn

  Party, Taken, Trying

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• What makes fantastic declarations believable is, in part, the vehemence with which they're proffered. Again, in the world of spirituality as well as of pop psychology, intensity of personal belief is evidence of truth. It is considered very bad form - even abuse - to challenge the veracity of any personal testimony that might be offered in a twelve-step group or on a talk show, unless the testimony itself is equivocal... Whatever sells, whatever many people believe strongly, must be true.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Believe, People, Challenges

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• George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology, psychology, history, etc. "Don't worry", Stigler said, "they have already have a Nobel Prize in ...Literature"

  Robert Kuttner

  School, Science, Worry

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• In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

  Washington Irving

  Life, Happiness, Men

  Washington Irving (1866). “The Works of Washington Irving ...: Oliver Goldsmith; The sketch book”

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• As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Art, Good Man, Acting

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• Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science.

  Annie Besant

  Success, Yoga, Men

  Annie Besant (2017). “The Nature and Practice of Yoga”, BookRix

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• A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Education, Teacher

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 1790.

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• If men act upon the teaching of the Word of God, and as proportionately men live according to the teaching and commands of the Bible, so they have in practice a sufficient psychological base. I will find you a man dealing with psychological problems on the basis of the teaching of the Word of God, even if he never heard the word psychology, or does not know what it means.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Teaching, Mean

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• We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Girl, Bullying, Pain

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• I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it now and I think I'm a better athlete because of that.

  Libby Trickett

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

  Picabo Street

  Sports, Morning, Want

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• Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Sports, Jobs

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