“In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.” PeopleMindTwoStatesCharacterStoriesActionClearPsychologyMinutesHeroEssentialsState Of MindGravityVagueGeneralizationMain CharactersCenter Of Gravity Author:Anton Chekhov
“Some fundamentalists go so far as to reject psychology as a disciplined study, which is unfortunate and polarizing. By definition, psychology is the study of the soul, theology is the study of God. Generally speaking, systematic theology is a study of all the essential doctrines of faith, and that would include the study of our souls (psychology).” SoulStudyPsychologyEssentialsDefinitionsTheologyDoctrineRejectsUnfortunateSystematicPolarizing Author:Neil T Anderson
“Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.” WorldHumansScienceNaturePsychologyEssentialsPhysicsLocalsBiologyInvestigationBumps Book:Theories and Things Source: Theories and Things
“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.” SometimesPsychologyEssentialsForgottenFeatures Author:P.D. Ouspensky
“In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!” CharacterPsychologyMinutesEssentialsVagueGeneralization Author:Anton Chekhov
“It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and man - which makes American psychology so profoundly disturbing.” MenDifferencesPsychologyEssentialsPsychologicalRatsDisturbingFallacyContentionImplicitPsychiatric Author:Ludwig von Bertalanffy
“There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert.” MenWorldReasonFactsDreamRunningAgeRomancePurposeCoursesForeverPsychologyThis WorldEssentialsOptimismGuiltFinalsGhostMysteriousLandscapeUnconsciousDeniedShallowFoeGothicMaidensRepressedNamelessDogmaticAge Of Reason Author:Leslie Fiedler
“Every winner needs to master three essential components of trading; a sound individual psychology, a logical trading system and good money management. These essentials are like three legs of a stool – remove one and the stool will fall, together with the person who sits on it.” NeedsPersonsTogetherFallThreeIndividualSoundPsychologyMastersEssentialsManagementLegsWinnerRemoveLogicalTradingComponentsMoney ManagementStoolsGood MoneyThree Legs Book:Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management Source: Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management
“Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature.” LiteraturePsychologyWrittenEssentialsEvolutionary Psychology Author:Stanton Peele
“To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential.” MenWantMindHardCharacterNumbersBehindsPsychologyHe ManEssentialsCritical Author:Andre Braugher