Psychology Quotes - Page 34

• One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average.

  J. Michael Bailey

  Average, Facts, Human Nature

  "Stereotypes of homosexuals". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. August 23, 2002.

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• If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

  Walter Smith

  Success, Sports, Team

  "Walter Smith says a final goodbye to a troubled Rangers" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Sports, Trying, Valleys

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• I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.

  Eric Shanteau

  Sports, Cancer, Perspective

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• The coaching profession doesn't hand you any gifts.

  Randy Carlyle

  Sports, Hockey, Hands

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• Just because you've had one or two of those games, you can't really go back to the next practice and change everything. That's the most important thing in those situations that you don't think too much, you don't try to change too much because then you're going to be in deep trouble, that's what I think. It's all about keep working on what's been successful for you and keep believing what you're doing is the right thing.

  Jonas Gustavsson

  Sports, Believe, Hockey

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• To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

  William James

  Teacher, Educational, Philosophy

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.16, Harvard University Press

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• But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task.

  William James

  Teacher, Philosophy, Spring

  William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Philosophy, Educational, Essence

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• You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Killers, Sometimes

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• Everyone who has been to an Olympics says expect the unexpected. That kind of psychology games does go on, so I'm kind of expecting things to happen but I don't know who from. I think it's kind of silly but I'm prepared for it. I'd probably just laugh it off because it means that they are afraid of racing me, so it's like a huge compliment

  Libby Trickett

  Motivational, Sports, Silly

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• If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Art, Freedom, Hero

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• At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• I have a mind like a steel trap. Stuff gets in there and WHAM! it never gets back out again.

  Bill Austin

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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• Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it

  Judit Polgar

  Play, Chess, Computer

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• If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw

  Jeremy Silman

  Suffering, Opponents, Chess

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• You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one

  Mikhail Tal

  Dark, Opponents, Chess

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• Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Player, Chess, Characteristics

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

  Richard Fenton

  Moving, Men, Pockets

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• He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.

  Eric Rucker Eddison

  Kings, Powerful, Fear

  Eric Rücker Eddison (1952). “The worm Ouroboros: a romance”, Del Rey

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• The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ideals, Impediments, Thyself

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.145, Univ of California Press

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• We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

  William Hazlitt

  Order, Acting, Actors

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.43

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• Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

  Loren Eiseley

  Believe, Choices, Childhood

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.17, Library of America

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• No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

  Horace

  Art, Men, Preparation

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• You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

  Doris Egan

  God, Religious, House

  "House / House vs. God". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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