“When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological.” BigsStuffEffectsCrimeBrotherPunishmentPsychologicalAnnaCrime And PunishmentBrothers Karamazov Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters.” CertainTurnsMonstersPsychologicalKicksMechanism Author:Neal Stephenson
“Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters. That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad people do bad things, but that good people do bad things. It's distressingly easy for those mechanisms to be triggered, either consciously by demagogues, or naively by people who think they're trying to do the right thing. Which is why I think it's more akin to tic-tac-toe.” PeopleThinkingTryingCertainTurnsEasyEventsMessagesMonstersTrialsPsychologicalRight ThingKicksBad ThingsWitchGood PeopleMechanismToesBad PeopleNazismTicsSalemWitch TrialsSalem Witch TrialsTic Tacs Author:Neal Stephenson
“I think there's often a negative associated with being passionate or geeky about entertainment, but for me, entertainment has always been a greater, psychological escape, so I think it's unfortunate when others don't appreciate the depth of passion entertainment offers.” ThinkingPassionGreaterOffersNegativeAppreciateDepthPassionateEntertainmentPsychologicalUnfortunate Author:Bryan Fuller
“It gives [a man] the incentive to develop his dormant potential so that when he becomes a part of the brotherhood of Islam, and is identified collectively in the brotherhood of Islam with the brothers in Islam, at the same time this also gives him the, it has the psychological effect of giving him the incentive as an individual to develop all of his dormant potential to its fullest extent.” MenGivingIndividualEffectsBrotherIslamPsychologicalBrotherhoodIncentivesDormant Author:Malcolm X
“First I might say that when a person, when a man separates from his wife, at the out start it's a physical separation but it's not a psychological separation. He still thinks of her in, in probably warm terms. And, but after the physical separation has taken, existed for a period of time, it becomes a psychological separation as well as physical. And he can then look at her more objectively. My split or separation from the Black Muslim movement at first was only a physical separation, but my heart was still there and it was impossible for me to, for me to look at it objectively.” ThinkingMenFirstsWellsLooksHeartPersonsStillsMightBlackTermTakenWifeImpossibleMovementMy HeartPeriodsWarmSeparationPsychologicalSplits Author:Malcolm X
“After I made my tour in the Middle, into the Middle-East and Africa and visited Mecca and other places, I think that the separation [ from the Black Muslim movement] became psychological as well as physical, so that I could look at it more objectively and - and separate that which was good from that which was bad.” ThinkingWellsLooksMadeBlackMiddleMovementEastSeparationPsychologicalMiddle EastMecca Author:Malcolm X
“I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.” BelieveProblemI BelievePhilosophicalSolvePsychologicalMigration Author:Malcolm X
“Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give us the spiritual strength and the incentive to strengthen our political and social and economic position right here in America, and to fight for the things that are ours by right here on this continent.” GivingMeanAmericaSpiritualPoliticalFightingSocialCommonEconomicPositionPhilosophicalPsychologicalContinentsIncentivesMigrationRestoringSpiritual Strength Author:Malcolm X
“The religious philosophy that they had adopted, in my opinion, was the only thing and is the only thing that can remove the white from the mind of the white man and the negro from the mind of the negro. I have seen what Islam has done with our people, our people who had this feeling of negro - and it had a psychological effect of putting them in a mental prison.” PeopleMenMindDonePhilosophyFeelingsReligiousWhiteOpinionEffectsPrisonIslamPsychologicalRemoveWhite ManAdoptedReligious Philosophy Author:Malcolm X
“An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.” WayProblemOrderCultureInformationProductsSolvePsychological Author:Howard Gardner
“My hope would be that, as we're moving through the world right now, we're able to get that psychological or emotional peace by seeing very concretely our kids doing better and being more hopeful and having greater opportunities.” WorldWould BeKidsAbleMovingOpportunityGreaterSeeingEmotionalRight NowPsychologicalHopeful Author:Barack Obama
“In [Ralph] Ellison's case, it's more psychological than it is phenomenal, and it's conditioned by anger, animosity, and lack of desire to engage with the black body. There was always simultaneity that had nothing to do with visuality. You can be there and not be there at the same time and be fully visible all the time. That's what really struck me about Ellison .” BodyDesireBlackCasesPsychologicalVisiblePhenomenalAnimosity Author:Kerry James Marshall
“There are doubtless all kinds of ways of explaining why people want security, but I do not think we can start with the psychological explanations. Even psychological states like fear or desire for safety are conditioned by social and political forms of intimidation and scare-mongering that intensify those emotions, and even work to persuade people that nothing less than their survival is at stake.” PeopleThinkingWayWantKindStatesFormPoliticalDesireSocialEmotionSecuritySurvivalSafetyPsychologicalAll KindsExplanationScareStakesExplainingIntimidation Author:Judith Butler
“We have a saying that a stranger's soul is like a black box. Which is why I would not want to analyze [Vladimir] Putin's psychological motivations.” WantSoulMotivationBlackBoxesStrangerPsychologicalPutinBlack Boxes Author:Garry Kasparov
“I think California is playing a game of brinkmanship that's very dangerous. Why is it 50 or 60 years ago we had the capacity to lay down the physical, psychological, cultural, public infrastructure of a global mega-state, and today we are on the verge of being Honduras?” ThinkingYearsStatesTodayGamesDangerousCapacityYears AgoLaysPsychologicalCaliforniaInfrastructureVergeMegaHonduras Author:Kevin Starr
“None of Ho Chi Minh's colleagues was as dedicated to the use of political struggle, psychological warfare, and diplomatic means as he was.” MeanUsePoliticalStrugglePsychologicalDedicatedWarfareColleaguesDiplomaticPolitical StrugglePsychological Warfare Author:William J. Duiker
“I would hazard the statement that in the broad sense [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas had triumphed, since the communist victory in Vietnam was a consequence of political, diplomatic, and psychological factors more than military ones. That is a tribute to the ideas that he introduced in his life and thought.” IdeasPoliticalMilitaryVictoryConsequenceStatementsPsychologicalFactorsBroadsCommunistVietnamTributeHazardsDiplomatic Author:William J. Duiker
“When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. Directing is much more psychological - it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.” PeopleTryingIdeasMightFilmActorsMy OwnDirectorsAskingBillionsPsychologicalOrganizedGreat Idea Author:Julie Taymor
“Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.” TryingBehaviorCreatingTerrorismTerroristPsychologicalUncertaintyManipulationDivisionWarfareManipulatePsychological WarfareCreating Fear Author:Patrick J. Kennedy
“I brought something back from those experiences [with drugs] which made me softer, open to other ideas. And I've learned from listening to other people talk about their experiences, from listening to Bill Hicks or reading Terrence McKenna or Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary. But there's always some dumb cop out there who says "We don't need another legal drug and there's psychological addiction and blah blah blah."” PeopleNeedsMadeIdeasReadingListeningDrugBillsAddictionPsychologicalDumbI've LearnedCopBlahListening To OthersHuxleyHicks Author:Joe Rogan
“I've always been attracted to the idea of ghosts being memories frozen in time, that a psychological haunting can be just as terrifying as a supernatural one.” IdeasMemoriesGhostPsychologicalFrozenHauntingBeing MeFrozen In Time Author:Ed Gass-Donnelly
“I was raised a right-wing Republican and was about eighteen when I had to admit to myself that in regards to the great domestic crucible of the day, civil rights and racial justice, conservatives were on the wrong side historically and morally, and that it took too much intellectual and psychological jujitsu to pretend otherwise. I didn't want to pretend anymore; I wanted to be on the right side.” WantWantedSidesJusticeToo MuchRightsRepublicanIntellectualRegardWingsRaisedPsychologicalCivil RightsRight WingEighteenRacial JusticeCrucible Author:Steve Erickson
“I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.” ThinkingKindStillsSportsBlackStruggleRemainsInvestmentMetaphorAthletePsychologicalTriumphFlagsFlair Author:George Elliott Clarke
“In my experience, the psychological aspect of femininity tends to be more receptive and apathetic and delicate. I think that because the feminine is a bit quieter, we live in a masculine-dominated society. It is the front-forward force that runs the world. And that's not the fault of men by any means, that's just the way the world works.” ThinkingMenWorldWayMeanRunningForceBitsFrontsAspectFaultsPsychologicalFeminineDelicateFemininityMasculineReceptiveApathetic Author:Laura Marling
“For me, I'm constantly writing stuff that is what I'm dealing with on a personal, psychological level. And I think that I bring that to whatever I'm doing, whether it's being an actor or a writer or whatever it is I'm doing. I think you can't help but do that.” ThinkingWritingHelpingActorsStuffLevelsPsychological Author:Amber Benson
“I think the personal and psychological aspects of war remain the same. War is about killing and dying. A man or woman stands at the post and there is a very real possibility of dying in the next five minutes. Whether he dies or not depends partly on him and partly on luck, and yet he must continue to function.” ThinkingMenWarRealDiesNextFiveMinutesDyingPossibilityDependsAspectFunctionLuckKillingPsychologicalPostsFive Minutes Author:George Friedman
“Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if human nature were very different? There are mathematical models of large groups working together that lead to conflict on a reliable basis. So there's a whole other view of war that is not psychological at all.” IfsHumansDifferentWarWholeTogetherInterestViewsGroupsHuman NatureConflictModelsBasesComplexesPsychologicalMathematicalInevitableOutcomesWorking TogetherCompetingLarge GroupsMathematical Models Author:Jaron Lanier
“I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior than the delighted exercise of my rather malicious sense of humor - especially vis-a-vis the horrifying everyday environment we have produced for ourselves. These mall-scapes, burb-scapes, urban wildernesses, starchitect stunts, and other toxic contexts for our daily lives express about every human vice, stupidity, and blunder that it is possible for a society to make. It all leads, really, to a psychological place where only comedy or despair make sense.” HumansEnvironmentComedyExerciseDespairBehaviorElementsEverydayVicesDenyStupidityPsychologicalReformMake SenseWildernessDaily LifeSense Of HumorToxicUrbanHuman BehaviorAttemptingDelightedMallsBlundersMaliciousScapes Author:James Howard Kunstler
“The productive sender is the outer world, the external reality including our own body. The receiver is our deep self, the conscious ego, which then transforms the outer stimuli into a psychological experience.” WorldSelfBodyRealityEgoConsciousIncludingPsychologicalProductiveStimulusReceiverOuter Worlds Author:Albert Hofmann
“When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the English language, which has a rather limited vocabulary when it comes to psychological descriptions, not to speak of spiritual descriptions. We're good mythically - the English language is superb for myth. But we're not very good for psychology or spirituality.” SoulWholeSpiritualSpiritSpiritualitySpeakLanguageWaterIssuesPsychologyVery GoodMythPsychologicalDistinctionDescriptionVocabularyEnglish LanguageSuperbMurky Water Author:Jean Houston
“What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story of Jesus, or the story of the great peacemaker who helped create the Iroquois Confederacy in the 15th century. I then use these tales as templates upon which to weave psychological and spiritual exercises which allow us to open ourselves up to the larger venue of a story.” StoriesUseSpiritualJesusCenturyExerciseTalesPsychologicalVenuesPeacemakerOdysseyIroquois Author:Jean Houston
“Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.” PeopleFactsLife IsLiteratureSpacePersonalityHappeningsRelationResponsePsychologicalMaskObscureDiscounts Author:Karan Mahajan
“I'm not interested in, and not capable of, direct politics. What I can do - I try to figure out the underlying principles. I'm interested in the psychological forces that divide Indian people as a nation.” PeopleTryingI CanForceNationsCan DoPrinciplesFiguresCapableDirectPsychologicalIndianDividesNot Interested Author:Sarnath Banerjee
“To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters for me is how human and interesting they are. I happen to be drawn to characters who operate under intense internal pressure, which often comes from some deep psychological conflict.” HumansLittlesMatterCharacterHappensInterestingConflictPressureIntensePsychologicalWickedInternals Author:James Lasdun
“The color red is symbolic of passion and action, so this Vajrayogini, as she's called, comes with a mantra and she comes with these various weapons and accouterments that are all symbolic of the kind of activity that this principle, as it were, this psychological principle, does or activates in the world. And there's text and mantra as well.” WorldWellsKindDoeActionPassionPrinciplesColorActivityWeaponsRedVariousPsychologicalSymbolicMantrasActivateColor Red Author:Anne Waldman
“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. They have a new name for that too, it's called Information Engagement. What I hope people take away from this is that it's a window into a larger phenomenon. After a decade of Iraq war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.” PeopleTryingWarRunningEffortOpinionTearsWallWindowAffairPsychologicalPropagandaPhenomenonFrighteningManipulateIraq War Author:Michael Hastings
“Politics becomes a part of a writer's working life. The writer's protagonists are born in the context of the feelings that this atmosphere evokes. How can writers separate themselves from these feelings and create protagonists that come from Mars? Even writers who only write about psychological or internal issues or about love are writing under their prevailing atmosphere, and their writings will take on the hue of the time, place, and mood of their environment.” WritingFeelingsEnvironmentMoodPsychologicalAtmosphere Author:Simin Behbahani
“Women are looking out for other women and their children. There are some great nannies, and there are some horrible nannies. And I don't blame individual women for wanting to keep an eye on it. I blame the government for not having subsidized high-quality day care. Should it be on a woman no matter how rich she is to be a one-woman show where she finds the nanny, interviews the nanny, does a psychological evaluation of the nanny, supervises the nanny? It's criminal how little America cares about child care, which is to me the pressing issue of our nation.” ChildrenEyeCareIndividualRichBlameHorriblePsychological Author:Wednesday Martin
“Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret states of anxiety, excitement, or depression in terms of physiological factors involving levels of serotonin, adrenalin, or blood sugar. To say that the characterization of thinking has a normative function that is irreducible to neurophysiological processing is not to say that our extant classification of the forms of thinking is incorrigible.” ThinkingTermAnxietyEverydayPsychologicalExcitementManiaCharacterizationPsychoanalytic Author:Ray Brassier
“I have been exposed to a great deal of the issues surrounding PTSD, but what I have learned that is most relevant to my work on Mercy Street is that this illness is timeless. We didn't have a diagnosis for PTSD in the Civil War like we do today, but those men and women definitely suffered from similar psychological wounds as our men and women in uniform do today.” MenWarTodayMen And WomenMercyIllnessWoundsPsychologicalCivil WarRelevantI Have LearnedTimeless Author:Bryce Pinkham
“Weakness is worse than cancer, I think. It's a kind of psychological or spiritual cancer. And if you have a goal in your life, you'll get psychological immunity. Psychological immunity is a kind of optimism, just like spring.” ThinkingKindSpiritualGoalSpringWeaknessOptimismCancerPsychological Author:Osama Alomar
“Now, you'll hear people call here on my show claiming they used to be lib and they've changed their minds. That happens, but it happens naturally. It's not because I've focused on trying to persuade people. I think while it's a noble objective to try to help people to see things the right way, this is a different psychological collection of human beings, and they are walled off from anything that's not them.” PeopleThinkingTryingMindDifferentHelpingChangedFocusedPsychological Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Learning to read and write makes little sense if you don't understand what you're reading and writing about. While we may have forgotten, most of our early learning came not from being explicitly taught but from experiencing. Kids aren't born knowing hard and soft, sweet and sour, red and green. When the child experiences those things, s/he transforms them into psychological understandings. When kids play with other kids, they learn about others and about themselves. Learning the basics of our physical and social reality is what early childhood is all about.” WritingChildrenRealityKidsReadingUnderstandingChildhoodSweetForgottenPsychologicalReading And WritingEarly ChildhoodLearning To Read Author:David Elkind
“If you read Donald Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," you know that he likes to create leverage, he likes to have psychological advantage, he likes to be on the offense. He believes in what he calls truthful hyperbole.” BelieveArtBookPsychologicalTruthfulOffenseHyperbole Author:Wendy Sherman
“Donald Trump thinks all press is good press. And I think he believes that he's putting everybody on a psychological disadvantage.” ThinkingBelievePsychological Author:Wendy Sherman
“There is more and more data that the biological molecules of aging are more under the influence of psychological factors than the chronological age that we usually associate with. Of course there are other things that influence our aging process, including how we perceive time. If you're constantly running out of time, then your biological clock speeds up, and you do run out of time with a heart attack or something like that. The quality of our self-esteem determines how we age. Our perception of our bodies as fields of energy or fields of matter influence how our body ages.” HeartRunningAgeEnergyQualityInfluencePerceptionAgingDetermineSpeedPsychologicalClockPerceiveHeart Attack Author:Deepak Chopra
“Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical style, and so forth, they all present different challenges. Some can be musically very challenging, some can be psychologically more challenging. There is always something that requires a pretty specific amount of energy and attention.” DifferentEnergyChallengesAttentionStylePerspectiveUniqueHistoricalMusicalPsychological Author:Thomas Hampson
“If a therapist is feeling insecure in therapy, a lot of therapists will try to sort of push that aside to try to do the therapy. Instead, we would ask people to get with that feeling of insecurity, because after all, the client is being asked to do the same thing. It has a kind of a quality of two human beings in the same situation, really, working through these psychological processes. And yeah, you hired me; I'm working for you as a therapist. But I'm not up here and you're down there. And what you're struggling with, at other times and with other areas I'm struggling with.” PeopleTryingKindFeelingsQualitySituationStrugglePsychologicalTherapyInsecurityInsecureFeeling Insecure Author:Steven C. Hayes
“Processes of avoiding the world within in order to try to regulate your behavior, or becoming entangled in your thoughts interfering with your ability to take advantage of what's around you, or losing contact with your values for fear that you'll know more about the places where you hurt - those kinds of processes are just normal psychological processes. And if you take the mode of mind that works great in 95 percent of your life and apply it within, it then implodes. It starts creating barriers, and that's true at work, it's true in our culture, true in our politics.” WorldTryingMindKindValuesCultureHurtAbilityBehaviorLosingPsychologicalBarriersInterfereAvoiding Author:Steven C. Hayes