Best Psychology Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.”

Knows Firsts Film Psychology Week Directors Shooting Headings

“I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.”

“I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.”

People Thinking World Children Ability Psychology Examining Prodigious Life Living

Author:Jodie Foster

“My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.”

Way Firsts Psychology Fields Economics Experiments Undertakings

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology.”

Interest Psychology Physiotherapy

Author:Bob Paisley

“Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Shows Able Three Psychology Changed Products Waste Research Asking Customers Plenty Features Behave Wasting Time

Author:Eric Ries

“Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.”

Men Differences Psychology Men And Women Relate Fascinated Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Karrine Steffans

“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.”

Feels Funny Lying Psychology Crazy Dying Stupid Health Silly Wellness Someday Hospitals Nuts Health And Wellness World Health

Author:Redd Foxx

“It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology, their thought forms, their lingual structures, their history, their present moment, their future ideas, and the quality of their emotions.”

Art Ideas Moments Form Humanity Individual Easy Levels Emotion Quality Psychology Groups Buddhism Behavior Structure Present Moment Examining

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.”

People Thinking Mind Seems Able School Actors Interesting Study Psychology Becoming Doctors Medicine Becoming A Doctor

Author:Rumer Willis

“What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also gain revolutionary spirit, in order to achieve a complete victory. For workers to gain a few cents more a day, a few minutes less a day, and go back to work with the same psychology, the same attitude toward society is to achieve a temporary gain and not a lasting victory.”

“Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.”

Trying Language Study Psychology Statements English Language

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.”

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Book:Man's Search for Meaning

Source: Man's Search for Meaning

“A shoe that fits one person pinches another.”

Persons Psychology Fit Shoes Individuality Libertarian Unconscious Psychologist Memories Dreams Reflections Conscious And Unconscious Old Shoes

Book:Cloaked

Source: Cloaked

“The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways”

Way Love Needs Children Kids Asks Psychology Asking

Author:Russell Barkley

“Opportunities change, strategies change, but people and psychology do not change. If trend-following systems don’t work well, something else will. There’s always money being lost, so someone out there has to win.”

People Ifs Wells Opportunity Winning Lost Psychology Strategy Following Trends

Author:Gil Blake

“I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.”

Thinking Persons Doe Reason Helping Stories Psychology Awareness Buddhism Skills Training Western Patterns Buddhist Personal Life Compatible

Author:Tara Brach

“And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Feels Children Given Ability Creative Psychology Birth Female Urges Linked

Author:Zoe Kazan

“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'”

Men Want Years Doe Soul Able Funny Women Answers Psychology Research Despite Thirty Feminine Psychoanalysis Thirty Years Funny Love Women Want Feminine Beauty Feminine Energy

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”

Facts Spiritual Science Death Desire Religion Fall Psychology Atheism Dying Strength Illusion Atheist Agnostic Psychiatry Atheistic Religion In Society

Book:Major Works

Source: Major Works

“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”

Mind May Fall Sun Psychology Conscious Pool Subconscious Fountain Psychiatrist Psychoanalysis Subconscious Mind Conscious Mind Power Subconscious Mind

Author:Sigmund Freud

“For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.”

Mind Mean Philosophy Psychology Buddhism

Author:Joan Halifax

“We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.”

Has Beens Psychology Praise Pops Mediocrity Jargon Foibles

Author:Kevin DeYoung

“Guilt is the mafia of the mind.”

Mind Psychology Guilt Mafia

Book:Open Heart Therapy

Source: Open Heart Therapy

“I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.”

Used Psychology Theatre Used To Be Cinema

Author:Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.”

States Psychology Century Surveys Appraise

Author:Stanley Smith Stevens

“Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.”

Has Beens Individual Study Psychology Discipline Academic Sociology Sociologists

Author:Richard Wall

“Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'”

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious”

Process Goal Psychology Conscious Ultimate Symbolic Psychotherapy Ultimate Goal

Author:Edward F Edinger

“You always catch the wrong players.”

Sports Psychology Player Sports Psychology

Author:Abe Lemons

“Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.”

Mind Heart Character Action Desire Knowing Psychology Habit Integrity Mindset Good Character Good Habits

Book:Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Source: Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

“Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.”

Whole Government America Psychology Promise Practicals Command Grounded

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as complete a view as is possible anywhere of the way scientific method can be applied to psychological problems. Secondly, it is of immense practical importance, educationally, socially, and in regard to physiology and genetics.”

“I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.”

Thinking Psychology

Author:J. Robbins

“Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.”

Should Psychology Disease Cures

Author:Bertrand Russell

“I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period of a few years, they decided they wanted a nursery school, a play group (to watch over their children while they were studying). So in one of the garages that was near where we were having the classes, we established a play group area and the students volunteered to supervise. That eventually led to building a state-licensed nursery school, which was approved by the California department of social welfare.”

“Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!”

Thinking Humans Religion Culture Psychology Ethics Cosmology Religion And Politics

Book:Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life

Source: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life

“In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .”

Ifs Looks Reason Past Social Causes Results Race Behinds Class Psychology Perspective Economics Prejudice Victim Gender Accidents No Reason Upbringing Cosmology Sociological

Author:James Hillman

“Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.”

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Author:Karl A. Menninger

“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.”

People Thinking Life Humans Persons Life Is Change Human Beings Mistake Psychology Our Lives Progress Right Now Constant Finished Temporary Fleeting Transient Work In Progress

Author:Daniel Gilbert

“People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.”

People Ifs Thinking Psychology Building Athlete Bricks Psychologist Crackers

Author:David James

“There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.”

Humans Art Philosophy Humanity Wish Psychology Mankind Universal Human Life

Author:Beatrice M. Hinkle

“Interesting survey in the current Journal of Abnormal Psychology: New York City has a higher percentage of people you shouldn't make any sudden moves around than any other city in the world.”

People World Humor Funny Moving Interesting Cities Psychology New York Higher Currents New York City Journal Percentages Surveys Abnormal Cities In The World Abnormal Psychology

Book:Late night with David Letterman: the book

Source: Late night with David Letterman: the book

“What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.”

Feelings Women Technology Psychology Combination Our Thoughts Expanding Presumption Thoughts And Feelings

Author:Judith Martin

“Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.”

People Thinking Way Needs Helping Feelings Women Half Psychology Need Help

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“I'm able to lead my life as well as make a film. My wife and my friends and people around me know that I do tend to distance myself a little bit during the making of a film, but I have to, it's a natural part of the process for me because you are indulging in the headspace of somebody else, you are investing in the psychology of somebody else and you are becoming somebody else, and so there isn't enough room for you and that somebody else.”

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Author:Guy Pearce

“The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper, it is an uncannily perceptive exploration of male psychology… Pomeroy is a brave new voice capable of taking us beyond the clichés of war and its aftermath and into the secret heart of every man. This is simply the best novel I’ve read in a long time.”

People Men Trying Heart Long War Voice Secret Novel Psychology Circumstances Normal Capable Long Time Brave Males Deeper Surface Every Man Exploration Stillness Aftermath Best Novel

Author:Andrew X. Pham

“For me, I hope last year was the last when anger, frustration and despair ruled my professional psychology.”

Years Lasts Psychology Despair Frustration Last Year Anger Frustration

Author:Margo Kingston

“Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness”

Ifs Way Giving Mind Feelings Moving Energy Space Psychology Right Way Feeling Bad Potential Energy

Author:Eugene Gendlin

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