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“Psychologists discovered that there are two routes to achievement: conformity and originality. Conformity means following the crowd down conventional paths and maintaining the status quo. Originality is taking the road less traveled, championing a set of novel ideas that go against the grain but ultimately make things better.”
Source: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
“Psychologists have clinically observed that overly prolonged grief in the bereaved usually signifies a poor relationship with the one who died.”
Source: The Art of Dying
“Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.”
“Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.”
“Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.”
“Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.”
“Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.”
“Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.”
“Psychologists tell us we think 50,000 thoughts a day...between 1,000
and 5,000 thoughts in a single hour. Many of those thoughts are about
ourselves and about our performance, about our lovability, our capability
and our significance. So the key is to control those thoughts, making
certain they're always positive.”
“Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.”
Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series
“Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back and let others do the work. The second is production blocking: only one person can talk or produce an idea at once, while the other group members are forced to sit passively. And the third is evaluation apprehension, meaning the fear of looking stupid in front of one's peers.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“Psychologists would say that the only two important forms of social learning are imitation and teaching, and they will spend time trying to figure out if animals imitate or teach. Sometimes they find they do; sometimes they find they don't. And so that's kind of the level of controversy there. Biologists would include imitation and teaching and a range of other kinds of social learning. So we would call that culture, whereas the psychologist wouldn't.”
“Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were before.”
Source: Science is a sacred cow
“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.”
“Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.”
“Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be! There is no utopic science.”
“Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.”
Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.”
Source: On Asking God Why: And Other Reflections on Trusting God in a Twisted World
“Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.”
Source: The Sopranos: The Classic Quotes: 100 Unforgettable Bits of Wisdom&Humor From Americas Favorite Families
“Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.”
“Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them, leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God.”
Source: Loving God with All Your Mind: Thinking as a Christian in the Postmodern World
“Psychology explains that thoughts arise in
the brain, and emotions from the heart.
Irrespective of where they arise from,
thoughts and emotions are inseparable.
Ancient scriptures say that thoughts create
us. So do emotions. We become what our
emotions are. Managing our emotions is
crucial to transforming our lives.
- HDH Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam, in the book "Living Enlightenment”
Source: Living Enlightenment
“Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.”
“Psychology has falsified love as surrender and altruism, while it is an appropriation or a bestowal following from a super-abundance of personality. Only the most complete persons can love. The depersonalized and objective are the worst lovers.”
Source: The Will to Power
“Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.”
“Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“Psychology is a subject of life, death, and in-betweens.”
“Psychology is a terrible a word.”
Source: The Secret History
“Psychology is a very unsatisfactory science.”
“Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.”
Source: Carnets: 1935-1942
“Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
Source: Carnets: 1935-1942
“Psychology is an invitation out of victimhood, not into it.”
Source: The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
“Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.”
“Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Psychology is gradually taking the place of revelations. Thus, we go to a psychologist to reveal to us the truth about ourselves.”
“Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. Its about education, work, marriage - its even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.”
“Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.”
“Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.”
“Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.”
“Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn.”
Source: Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod
“Psychology is the most important factor in chess.”
“Psychology is the science of mental life”
“Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.”
Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology
“Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.”
“Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.”
“Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.”
Source: The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology
“Psychology: it's sociology for sociopaths.”
Source: Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World
“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.”
“Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov