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“The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.”

Writing Years Hard Lasts Artist Song Successful One Thing Hard Work Ten Paid Psychological I've Learned Roller Coaster Coasters Things I've Learned Successful Artists

Author:Enrique Iglesias

“Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.”

Way Different Stories Fun Can Do Metaphor Ghost Psychological Different Ways Disturbing Ghost Stories

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.”

Hard Term Horror Psychological Damn Damn Good

Author:Dylan McDermott

“If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they all think their sons are innocent. That's simple psychological denial. The reality is too painful to bear, so you just distort it until it's bearable. We all do that to some extent, and it's a common psychological misjudgment that causes terrible problems.”

Ifs Thinking Men Problem Reality Mother Turns Causes Simple Common Television Son Bears Terrible Painful Obvious Criminals Innocent Psychological Denial Turn-on Bearable

Author:Charlie Munger

“Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.”

Firsts Attention Virtue Depends Psychological Cardinals

Book:The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire

Source: The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire

“If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong to society and that he, as a member of society, has the right to dispose of them...that psychological confession reveals the enormity of the extent to which altruism erodes men's capacity to grasp the concept of rights or the value of an individual life.”

Ifs Men Should Values Individual Poor Accepting Rights Members Concepts Capacity Psychological Confession Altruism Premises Erode Individual Life

Author:Ayn Rand

“The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?”

Ifs Humans Lying Lines Activity Psychological Definite Fashionable Human Activity Physiological

Book:The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)

Source: The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)

“What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.”

Huge Psychological Dysfunction

Author:Kathy Lette

“Propaganda tries first of all to create conditioned reflexes in the individual so that certain words, signs, or symbols, even certain persons or facts, provoke unfailing reactions...The important thing is that when the time is ripe, the individual can be thrown into action by the utilization of the psychological levers that have been set up.”

Trying Firsts Persons Has Beens Important Facts Action Certain Individual Important Things Reactions Psychological Symbols Propaganda Thrown Provoking Ripe Reflexes Levers Utilization

Author:Jacques Ellul

“Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological theories that turn churches into relational support groups instead of houses of worship.”

Turns House Church Simple Moral Support Groups Theory Worship Messages Psychological Compromise Clutter Convoluted Support Groups Houses Of Worship

Book:So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There

Source: So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There

“For time not only moves inexorable forward, as the underlying grid to our personal chronicle, but is manipulated by our psychic needs and natures into various images of timelessness and timeliness. Transient moments suddenly expand, visions of infinity intervene, notes and phrases become outlets of fantasy, escape, recollection, or omen. The music travels on two planes, chronological time and psychological time. Both planes are essential and must be abundantly represented.”

“If a psychological Maxwell devises a general theory of mind, he may make it possible for a psychological Einstein to follow with a theory that the mental and the physical are really the same. But this could happen only at the end of a process which began with the recognition that the mental is something completely different from the physical world as we have come to know it through a certain highly successful form of detached objective understanding. Only if the uniqueness of the mental is recognized will concepts and theories be devised especially for the purpose of understanding it.”

Ifs Knows World Mind May Different Ends Happens Form Purpose Certain Process Understanding Successful Theory Concepts Objectives Psychological Recognition Uniqueness Detached Maxwell

Book:The View From Nowhere

Source: The View From Nowhere

“Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke: you have made an enormous commitment to something. You have poured effort and money in. And the more you put in, the more that the whole consistency principle makes you think, "Now it has to work. If I put in just a little more, then it will work."”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.”

School Vision Minutes Harm Psychological Beaten Adjustment

Author:John Cleese

“Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year you are bound to love me. It is a well-known psychological phenomenon.”

Source: Vedanta: Voice of Freedom

“The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances.”

Way Matter Might Social Community Figures Crisis Edges Critical Psychological Substance Description Village Peculiar Social Life

Author:Terence McKenna

“There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot forward. It's called psychological comfort. Look at a picture of the Coney Island boardwalk in 1925. Men were in full-on three-piece suits, hats. They may have only had one suit. But they pressed it. They made it look as good as possible.”

Men Looks Kind May Made Different Three Knowing Pieces Feet Comfort Psychological Suits Made It Islands Hats Different Kinds Boardwalks Coney Island

Author:Tom Ford

“Violence generates more violence; hatred produces more hatred. Peace cannot be conquered. Peace cannot be the result of violence. Peace comes to us only when we dissolve the Ego, when we destroy within us all those psychological factors that produce war.”

War Results Violence Produce Ego Hatred Psychological Factors

Author:Samael Aun Weor

“I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.”

Knows World War Psychological War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Warfare Psychological Warfare

Author:Stefan Heym

“I love the psychological thriller piece of it. Because we are trapped in this isolated environment with a deadly virus, what's really interesting is that everyone's darkness comes out because we've got these life-and-death stakes going on. And then, there're these interesting relationships going on, but we can't quite deal with the relationship right now because we've got something better to do, which is survive.”

Interesting Deals Darkness Environment Pieces Right Now Psychological Life And Death Stakes Isolated Trapped Something Better Viruses Really Interesting Thrillers Psychological Thrillers

Author:Kyra Zagorsky

“For me, the thing that I love about the show is the psychological thriller aspect of it. It's frightening and it's scary, and there are all these things that happen. You have these really dramatic scenes, and then you get in a scene with him and I can't tell you how many times I would start cracking up.”

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Author:Kyra Zagorsky

“I'm more into kind of real stories, psychological movies.”

Kind Real Stories Psychological Real Story

Author:Violante Placido

“I don't watch things like Jeepers Creepers or Final Destination 53 ½. I really like more of the psychological thrillers.”

Watches Finals Psychological Destination Thrillers Final Destination Psychological Thrillers Creepers

Author:Alexandra Breckenridge

“The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.”

Dies Citizens Doctors Treats Constitution Psychological Unhealthy

Author:Plato

“Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.”

Whole Spirit Principles Psychology Depends Revenge Psychological Traits

Book:Nietzsche and Philosophy

Source: Nietzsche and Philosophy

“[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.”

People World Motivation Novel Influence Economic Periods Psychological Comment Allusion

Author:Orson Welles

“You must have the confidence to override people with more credentials than you whose cognition is impaired by incentive-caused bias or some similar psychological force that is obviously present. But there are also cases where you have to recognize that you have no wisdom to add - and that your best course is to trust some expert.”

People Courses Force Cases Add Psychological Experts Bias Incentives Cognition Credentials

Author:Charlie Munger

“I can't see any hope but a second front. The psychological effect would be great, even if they could not wade all the way to Berlin in 15 to 20 minutes.”

Ifs Way I Can Would Be Minutes Effects Fronts Psychological Berlin Wade

Author:Bess Truman

“The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him.”

Doe Citizens Vote Psychological Candidates

Author:Joe McGinniss

“The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.”

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Author:Andre Bazin

“Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.”

Ifs Said Subjects Effects Pure Photography Absolutes Mirrors Starting Psychological Principal Portraits Starting Point Absolute Truth

Author:August Sander

“I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I am now coming to think that they are decisively "personal," arising from the defects and ambitions of those who have the power to influence the currents of nations.”

Thinking War Used Nations Causes Influence Economic Ambition Currents Psychological Defects Causes Of War

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“...I started photographing myself, and found that I could see portions of myself that I had never seen before. Since I face just my face in the mirror, I know pretty much what it's like. When I see a side-view I'm not used to it, and find it peculiar... So, photographing myself and discovering unknown territories of my surface self causes an interesting psychological confrontation.”

Knows Self Faces Used Found Causes Sides Interesting Views Mirrors Surface Psychological Territory Peculiar Portions Discovering Confrontation

Author:Lucas Samaras

“The pictures are of a psychological culture, a Jungian culture, if you will. It emanates from my own psyche... It's a hard place to get to, honestly. It has taken me many years to get to that place and to define it visually.”

Ifs Years Hard Culture My Own Taken Honestly Psychological Emanate

Author:Roger Ballen

“The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.”

Needs Psychological Psychological Needs

Author:Larry Clark

“I think when you're photographing - when anybody's photographing another person in a private situation, it's a kind of a seduction but it's not always a sexual seduction... I feel like when Jack [Welpott] was doing it, it was a sexual seduction and when I was doing it, it was more of a psychological seduction in order to get them to cooperate with me... Not because I wanted them to spread their legs or... be, you know, Wanna sleep with me? , or whatever.”

Thinking Knows Feels Kind Persons Wanted Order Sleep Situation Legs Spread Psychological Be You Seduction

Author:Judy Dater

“I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.”

Trying Real Reality Seems Photograph Psychological Subjective

Author:Barbara Ess

“I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which mostly miss the living spirit behind the forms).”

Form Spirit Behinds Missing Building Psychological Manifestation Poetic Historian Architect Viewpoints

Book:Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer

Source: Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer

“I started to concentrate more upon how the viewer looks at photographs... I would insert my own text or my own specific reading of the image to give the viewer something they might not interpret or surmise, due to their educated way of looking at images, and reading them for their emotional, psychological, and/or sociological values. So I would start to interject these things that the photograph would not speak of and that I felt needed to be revealed, but that couldn't be revealed from just looking at an image.”

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Author:Lorna Simpson

“Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest.”

Needs Mind Religious Support Weak Psychological Dependent Priests Instruction Primitive Magician

Author:Carl Jung

“I think what art is always doing is making us see the world so differently, and I don't mean just colors and light, but re-thinking relationships, spatial relationships, psychological relationships ... those who gravitate to the art world actually want to be puzzled.”

Thinking World Want Mean Art Light Color Art Is Psychological Art World Puzzled Spatial

Author:Roselee Goldberg

“Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.”

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Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.”

People Art Ideas Psychology Mystery Stupid Understood Experiments Psychological Branches Aesthetics

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only after your own good, not the good of others and that's extremely harmful.”

People Effects Psychological Conception

Author:Noam Chomsky

“When you're playing the devil, you're playing the ultimate evil. There are no boundaries. In doing a film in the horror genre or a psychological thriller, you're really pushed as an actress, you're pushed way outside of your comfort zone. Emotionally, mentally, and physically. That's when things really get fun.”

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Author:Ashley Bell

“I think a lot of psychological healing tends to work on that basis. We go into the unconscious to find what's holding you back, so to speak, and I think there is an unconscious body image that may be responsible for the unhealing that's taking place.”

Thinking May Body Speak Healing Bases Responsible Psychological Unconscious Body Image Being Responsible

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just deal with spaceships and aliens all the time, because we've done that. Our science fiction is more psychological.”

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Author:John Barrowman

“Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given at Cardiff University last year. Astrology is not mere superstition but contains some psychological facts (like theosophy) which are of considerable importance. Astrology has actually nothing to do with the stars but is the 5000-year-old psychology of antiquity and the Middle Ages.”

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Author:Carl Jung

“The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military. . . . The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.”

Ifs May War States Political Fighting Process Military Islam Believer Doctrine Psychological Permanent Creeds Warfare Jihad Universalism

Author:Majid Khadduri

“Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.”

Conditions Fishes Psychological Faster Contracts License Stink

Author:Robert A. Heinlein