“I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. [...] The other problem I have is fear of writing. The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] Not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. [...] It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. Especially when it goes on for years. It's much more relaxing actually to work.” ThinkingFeelsWritingYearsHardProblemGoes OnHarderCriminalsHorriblePsychologicalHard TimesConfrontationEvery SecondPsychological Problems Author:Fran Lebowitz
“I'm very interested in buildings that adapt to changes in climatic conditions according to the seasons, buildings capable of responding to our physical and psychological needs in the way that clothing does. We don't turn on the air-conditioning as we walk through the streets in high summer. Instead, we change the character of the clothing by which we are protected. Layering and changeability: this is the key.” WayNeedsDoeCharacterTurnsChangeWalksAirStreetsConditionsBuildingKeysSummerCapableSeasonsArchitecturePsychologicalClothingsProtectedAdaptationTurn-onConditioningRespondingAdaptabilityAir ConditioningPsychological Needs Author:Glenn Murcutt
“A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious.” IfsPersonsFeelingsCuttingInspirePersonalitySpringPsychologicalUnconsciousAweReverencePsychological Health Author:Robert Johnson
“The 3 key components for success are as follows: Psychological Preparedness Physical Conditioning Mental Toughness” KeysPsychologicalComponentsConditioningToughnessPreparednessMental Toughness Author:Chuck Norris
“The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man; it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow.” MenTwoCommunicationMountainMessagesFlowCurrentsProtectionSensesPsychologicalSubtleDispositionExtensionsConnectingRopeWireTransmitTactileNylon Book:The Eiger Sanction: A Novel Source: The Eiger Sanction: A Novel
“I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds of psychological weight that different materials have is pretty interesting to me.” KindDifferentInterestingBuildingMaterialsWeightPsychologicalConstructionCarpenterPlacement Author:Julian Schnabel
“I really believe that is helping people. I've been talking to oncologists about how we can re-frame and re-think the chemo process, so it becomes a much more spiritual, psychological journey. Where people really could burn away what needs to be burned away. It's happening anyway. Why not frame it in a psychological way where it can serve as a transformation?” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsBelieveHelpingSpiritualProcessTalkingJourneyHappeningsTransformationPsychologicalWhy NotBurnedHelping PeopleOncologists Author:Eve Ensler
“I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism."” ThinkingNeedsWritingLittlesPsychologicalRealism Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“I like it when characters are some combination of appealing and maybe flawed or self-interested. I think in terms of scenes, and what I want a scene to achieve, and I think that the psychological realism arises from that.” ThinkingWantSelfCharacterTermAchieveSceneArisePsychologicalCombinationRealismFlawed Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned. He was out with his friends drinking and on medication for depression, and he didn't come out of the water alive. Growing up with sexual abuse and having to be in gangs and dealing with my own trauma; finding the cultural identity when I was 16, and learning those traditional ways saved me from hurting myself.” WayWellsTwoWarAgeYoungMotherFatherParentWaterHurtMy OwnGrowing UpAliveGrowingDyingIdentityMonthsFindingsAbuseDrinkingTraumaSavedTraditionalPsychologicalDrunkDriversGangYoung AgeMedicationTwo MonthsCultural IdentityDrinking With FriendsHurting Myself Author:Adam Beach
“One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to confine the stories you can tell about characters to tropes of bone-headed action and old models of psychological realism. And as readers, too, we have been conditioned to understand characters as - and forgive me for saying it out loud - what the market says they should be. Namely, safe, clean, proper.” ShouldHas BeensCharacterStoriesSeemsActionParticularReaderSafeModelsTraditionForgivingCleanWesternBonesPsychologicalNarrativeLoudConventionsRealismBugsForgive MeTropes Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“In my real life I had to confront the sins of the father, but it's also a symbolic journey - a social, psychological, sexual journey for women and minorities who must pass through patriarchy and the symbolic order in order to claim a self.” RealSelfOrderFatherSocialSinJourneyClaimsReal LifePsychologicalMinoritiesPatriarchySymbolicSins Of The Father Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then asked not to focus on the Taliban but on manipulating senators into giving more funds and troops [to the war].” GivingWarFocusTeamInformationVariousPsychologicalOperationsFundAfghanistanTroopsSenatorsTaliban Author:Michael Hastings
“The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they were doing information operations and public affairs. They were just helping us spin senators like we normally do."” WayHelpingStoriesInformationAffairPsychologicalOperationsSenatorsDefendersPentagonPublic Affairs Author:Michael Hastings
“But the frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs and propaganda, and essentially say there is no difference between information operations, public affairs and psychological operations. It's all one and the same. They have a new name for that too, it's called Information Engagement.” NamesDifferencesEffortInformationTearsWallAspectAffairPsychologicalPropagandaOperationsEngagementFrighteningPentagonPublic Affairs Author:Michael Hastings
“A new software is being developed so the psychological operations guys and the Pentagon's strategic communications guys - and we don't really know who's running it - but this is all totally out in the open. It's this new program that will allow them to have like ten fake Twitter accounts and ten Facebook accounts so you can pretend.” KnowsRunningGuyCommunicationTenProgramAccountsPsychologicalOperationsFakeSoftwareStrategicPentagon Author:Michael Hastings
“The "biggest" poems I ever made are based on the psychological principal of the "Johari Window:" what the self freely shares with others; what the self hides from others; what others hide from the self; and what is unknown to the self and others.” MadeSelfShareWindowPsychologicalPrincipal Author:Denise Duhamel
“Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.” ImportantFunctionDebtPsychologicalBudgetsBalancedSignalsBalanced Budget Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“What makes Jessica Jones series so unique is that it really is an allegory for many different types of abuse, whether it be sexual abuse, physical abuse, or psychological abuse. That's what makes this such an incredibly bold show.” DifferentShowsTypeUniqueAbuseSeriesPsychologicalAllegoryJessicaPhysical AbuseJessica Jones Author:Rachael Taylor
“There's no psychological barrier anymore that stops a young person or an older person from taking heroin.” PersonsYoungPsychologicalBarriersHeroin Author:Mike DeWine
“Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I was to please this aftermath of the book by knowledge that was more historical and psychological than literary and aesthetical.” PeopleIfsGivingBookWarTalkingSubjectsPleaseResearchHistoricalPsychologicalAftermath Author:Sasa Stanisic
“The key is to remember a sex scene is a scene of dramatic action and psychological development. You need to pay attention to emotion and to a character's self-awareness or lack of self-awareness.” NeedsSelfCharacterActionRememberSexPayEmotionAttentionAwarenessKeysDevelopmentSceneSelf AwarenessPsychologicalPay AttentionDramaticPsychological Development Author:K. M. Soehnlein
“By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that interlacing. And those have personal and psychological expressions in a character. Aside from other issues of writing, psychological characterization is what narrative can do best.” WritingPlayCharacterUseCan DoIssuesExpressionConsequenceDefinitionsDelightPsychologicalNarrativeCharacterizationChronology Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I eat organic as much as possible, cleanse regularly, and love outdoor activities like paddle boarding, hiking, swimming, kickboxing, and yoga. But honestly it's more of a psychological thing for me. If I feel good on the inside, I treat my body with more respect.” IfsFeelsBodyActivityYogaAnd LoveTreatsHonestlyFeel GoodPsychologicalSwimmingHikingI Feel GoodKickboxingOutdoor Activities Author:Ashley Rickards
“In junior high I read a lot of Stephen King, whose Americana approach to writing was often about "the terror next door" and at the same time I was reading a lot of Clive Barker, who was on the other end of the horror pendulum: insidious and disturbingly psychological. I found it fascinating how these two authors came at horror from two totally different perspectives.” WritingTwoDifferentEndsReadingNextFoundDoorsPerspectiveKingsHorrorApproachTerrorPsychologicalFascinatingJuniorsDifferent PerspectiveInsidiousJunior HighPendulumsAmericana Author:Bryan Fuller
“At times, Zen does get into some Buddhist Cosmology. Nishijima Roshi, my main teacher would talk about that and almost every time immediately say that it was only one way of looking at it. Whenever addressing realms of Heaven or Hell, he'd also address that it was just a psychological state.” WayDoeStatesHeavenHellTeacherPsychologicalBuddhistOne WayRealmsAddressesCosmologyHeaven Or Hell Author:Brad Warner
“I never really wanted to have a Guru, I was more interested in Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and had a psychological background in college, but he had so much love. To be with him, there was nowhere else to be and nothing else to do. Nothing he taught, philosophy or meditation, are the things I went to India to look for, or was interested in, but he sort of jumped into my heart and then pulled, he pried it open.” LooksHeartPhilosophyWantedMeditationTaughtCollegeMy HeartIndiaBackgroundsPsychologicalBuddhistGuruMuch LoveBuddhist Philosophy Author:Surya Das
“The study of love is an emerging field. Perhaps the leaders in the field are a group called The Institute of HeartMath who have found that we have many physiological, psychological, and social benefits when we're living with greater love, care, and compassion.” CareFoundSocialLove IsCompassionLeaderStudyGreaterGroupsFieldsBenefitsPsychologicalEmergingInstitutePhysiologicalGreater Love Author:Marci Shimoff
“Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this is a simple psychological question, and there are a number of plausible explanations. Indeed this is a topic that is quite extensively discussed outside philosophy, by developmental psychologists and theorists of religion among others, under the heading of 'intuitive dualism'. It is rather shocking that so few of the many philosophers working on 'the explanatory gap' are familiar with this empirical literature.” IfsShouldMindPhilosophyCoursesLiteratureSimpleNumbersBrainIdentityRemainsPhilosopherFamiliarPsychologicalExplanationGapsTopicsShockingIntuitivePsychologistHeadingsPlausibleTheoristsDualismDevelopmental Author:David Papineau
“Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This is part of how one creates a mood, a psychological caul, in fact, around the reader.” SaidImportantFactsReaderMoodPsychologicalEchoesRepetitionAlterationsMotifs Author:Teju Cole
“When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and we arrive at new judgments. These attitudes are brought into relation with many others, including our standing tendencies to think and feel in particular ways, and we try to fit our psychological capacities and responses together.” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingTogetherImaginationEmotionAttitudeParticularFitJudgmentCapacityStandingRelationResponseIncludingVariousTendenciesPsychologicalInstanceListening To MusicLiterary Works Author:Philip Kitcher
“The amalgam of psychological attitudes we form is the synthetic complex. It may fall apart quite quickly as further reflection or further experience bears on it, and we may revert to our former judgments, feelings and tendencies.” MayFeelingsFormFallAttitudeBearsJudgmentReflectionComplexesTendenciesPsychologicalFormerFalling ApartSynthetic Author:Philip Kitcher
“The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the mind works. Those philosophers took a stand on all sorts of questions which nowadays we would classify as questions of psychology, and their views about psychological questions shaped their views about epistemology, as well they should have.” ThinkingShouldMindWellsViewsPsychologyCenturyShould HavePhilosopherPsychologicalEpistemology18th CenturyGreat Philosophers Author:Hilary Kornblith
“In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it deserves. There's a lot of empirical work on the various psychological mechanisms by way of which the first-person point of view is produced, and, when we understand this, I believe, we can stop romanticising and mythologising the first-person perspective.” WayFirstsBelievePersonsI BelieveViewsDealsPerspectiveDeservePhilosopherVariousPoint Of ViewPsychologicalMechanismFirst PersonThis I Believe Author:Hilary Kornblith
“If we are to believe the evidence from clinical trials there are many effective pharmacological and psychological treatments for mental illness. Epidemiological data, on the other hand, says otherwise.” IfsBelieveHandsEvidenceIllnessTrialsMental IllnessPsychologicalDataTreatmentClinicalsClinical Trials Author:Richard Bentall
“My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained in a behaviorist approach to psychology which - whatever its limitations - at least taught me to see human behavior in its social context).” HumansSocialInterestPsychologyTaughtBrotherBehaviorApproachRootsSuicideCommittedPsychologicalLimitationMy BrotherHuman BehaviorAndrewPsychosis Author:Richard Bentall
“At the individual level, if we can identify the psychological mechanisms linking adverse environments to psychosis (and there has been a lot of progress with this despite minimal funding) we should be able to devise more effective interventions for those who are already ill.” IfsShouldHas BeensAbleIndividualLevelsEnvironmentProgressIllPsychologicalDespiteMechanismInterventionFundingAdversePsychosis Author:Richard Bentall
“There are many kinds of adult adversities that can provoke severe psychological distress, including debt and unemployment, dysfunctional marital relationships and occupational stress. The reality is that the social causes of mental ill-health are all around us.” KindRealitySocialCausesAdultsStressAdversityIncludingIllDebtPsychologicalProvokingDistressSevereUnemploymentIll Health Author:Richard Bentall
“If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.” IfsMaySchoolSpiritualPurposeCultureWaitingTechnologyFourApproachTraditionMethodWesternEverydayTechniquePsychologicalPeacefulWarriorThemePurpose Of LifeEveryday LifeEasternAbove And BeyondPeaceful Warrior Author:Dan Millman
“Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."” PeopleJobsHalfSticksPsychologicalCountingLedges Author:Questlove
“I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.” ThinkingWayBreakHappenedDegreesEnglandSouthFinalsPsychologicalOccasionsBritainGreat BritainNew England Author:Charles R. Morris
“The goal of dream study is to increase one's contact with and access to the abilities of their subconscious mind. I became interested in dreams as an avenue to increase my knowledge of the subconscious mind, and increase my psychological and emotional effectiveness. I have been recording my dreams since I was seventeen.” MindHas BeensDreamGoalAbilityStudyEmotionalIncreaseAccessContactPsychologicalSubconsciousAvenuesEffectivenessSeventeenSubconscious Mind Author:Charles McPhee
“There are other people that think that dreams actually do serve a purpose. But what that purpose is, we're not really sure. So some people believe that it actually does have some psychological representation of what's going on in the day, but there's no need to sit and really analyze it.” PeopleThinkingNeedsBelieveDoeDreamPurposePsychologicalRepresentation Author:Shelby Harris
“Now there's some night terrors that happen in adults. And if it starts as an adult and you've never had them before, then there might be other things that are happening; it might be anxiety, depression, stress. And that's when you might have more of a thorough psychological evaluation.” IfsMightHappensNightAnxietyHappeningsAdultsStressTerrorPsychologicalThoroughEvaluationNight TerrorsAnxiety Depression Author:Shelby Harris
“If your decision-making is improved on the ground, certainly you'll be less likely to make the kind of errors that will linger with you the rest of your life and lead to regret, remorse, and a whole cascade of psychological dysfunction.” IfsKindWholeDecisionRegretErrorsPsychologicalDecision MakingRemorseRest Of Your LifeDysfunctionCascade Author:Amishi Jha
“It hit me that an Apache resistance would be a wonderful, you know, it would be a wonderful metaphor for Jewish-American soldiers to be using behind enemy lines against the Nazis because the Apache Indians... were able to fight off for decades both the Spaniards and the Mexicans and the U.S. Cavalry for years because of their - they were great guerrilla fighters. They were great resistance fighters. And one of their ways of winning battles was psychological battles.” KnowsWayYearsWould BeAbleFightingWinningLinesBehindsEnemyWonderfulBattleSoldierMetaphorDecadesResistancePsychologicalFighterNaziAmerican SoldierGuerrillasSpaniardsCavalry Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Apache have the strongest nation in the world behind them. So we're going to inflict pain where our European aunts and uncles had to endure it. And so the fact that you could actually get Nazis scared of a band of Jews, that's - again, that's a gigantic psychological thing.” WorldFactsPainNationsBehindsBandEndureScaredJewPsychologicalStrongestNaziUnclesAuntAunts And Uncles Author:Quentin Tarantino
“You'll get this kind of psychological relationship to the imagery of the music, but that idea is translated to iPhone apps. It's translated to the small, you know, kind of icons on your computer. You name it.” KnowsKindIdeasNamesComputerPsychologicalImageryIconsIphoneAppsApps For Iphone Author:DJ Spooky
“So yeah, how do I think of my environment and what happens with sound art? I love to play with the idea of elusive and intangible things. That could be psychological. It could be perceptual. It could be just the way your ears help you just navigate around.” ThinkingWayArtIdeasPlayHelpingHappensSoundEnvironmentEarsYeahPsychologicalElusiveNavigateIntangible Author:DJ Spooky
“Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.” MaySelfCausesGriefEnemyDoubtNiceDutyIllWarmPsychologicalSicknessRelaxCowardiceRefugeBlanketSlothTemptingIll Health Author:Patanjali