Psychology Quotes - Page 36

• I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.

  William James

  Science, Helping, Natural

  William James (1983). “Essays in Psychology”, p.270, Harvard University Press

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• Every winner needs to master three essential components of trading; a sound individual psychology, a logical trading system and good money management. These essentials are like three legs of a stool – remove one and the stool will fall, together with the person who sits on it.

  Alexander Elder

  Fall, Together, Sound

  Alexander Elder (1993). “Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• Study the behavior of animals and you will understand human psychology and sociology. Study a flower excited under sunlight, and you will understand how all living things respond to light. The Almighty has provided everything in nature. Observe nature and you will grow. The cures of all illnesses are found in nature in the shapes of the body parts they were created to cure.

  Suzy Kassem

  Flower, Animal, Light

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• One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has room for history, music, psychology, religious thought, mood, occult speculation, character, and events of one's own life. I still feel surprised that such various substances can find shelter and nourishment in a poem. A poem in fact may be a sort of nourishing liquid, such as one uses to keep an amoeba alive. If prepared right, a poem can keep an image or a thought or insights on history or the psyche alive for years, as well as our desires and airy impulses.

  Robert Bly

  Religious, Writing, Character

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• I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Thinking, Funny Things, Ivory

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• Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.

  Aberjhani

  Beauty, Passion, Self

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• But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

  Rachel Dratch

  Drama, Gmos

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• I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Inspiration, Writing, Understanding

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• In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

  Aloe Blacc

  Real, School, Brain

  "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.

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• To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential.

  Andre Braugher

  Character, Men, Numbers

  Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 24, 2006.

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• Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

  Conrad Black

  Doe, Three, Half

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

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• Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Pseudo, Periods

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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• Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

  Chris Cleave

  Fun, Thinking, Stories

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• I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

  Hank Azaria

  School, College, People

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2011.

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• Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.

  Crystal Reed

  College, Mind, Actors

  "Crystal Reed Talks TEEN WOLF, The Psychological Aspect of Season 3b, the Relationship Between Allison and Isaac, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 27, 2014.

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• I want to get back to education. When I was in college I paid attention to child psychology portions of our psychology classes. I watch other people work with babies. And I saw the baby as developing like a computer and it intrigued me in my life. I wanted to do that.

  Steve Wozniak

  Baby, Children, College

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms and unconscious reactions. But it has told us nothing about the reflexes that have built cathedrals, railroads, and fortresses, the instincts that have produced philosophies, poems, and legal systems, the automatisms that have resulted in the growth and decline of empires, the unconscious reactions that are splitting atoms.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Animal, Growth

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• A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Mother, Mean, Frustration

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a love disorder of one sort or another, and each has a story to tell - of love lost or denied, love twisted or betrayed, love perverted or shackled to violence. Broken attachments litter the office floors like pick-up sticks. People appear with frayed seams and spilling pockets.

  Diane Ackerman

  Lost Love, Attachment, People

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.136, Vintage

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• If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Parent, Unhappy

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.

  Agnes Repplier

  Simple, Thinking, Personality

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• Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.

  Rebecca West

  War, Hands, Left Hand

  Rebecca West (1952). “The meaning of treason”

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• The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Book, Mean, Self

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Believe, Thinking, Appreciate

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• Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable. We had behaviorism, Freudian psychology, all of these theories that you learn in psychology. Totally untestable. Now, we can test it, because physics allows us to calculate energy flows in the brain.

  Michio Kaku

  Thinking, Brain, Energy

  "'It's all because of physics': an interview with Michio Kaku". Interview with Matt Fulkerson, www.theshorthorn.com. February 20, 2015.

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