“I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving it” KnowsStillsI CanAbleUsedPsychologyImagineLeavingPursueUsed To BeEndearing Author:Lindsey Shaw
“With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and that needs to be first-person. In the children's books, I feel I need some distance. I don't want to be the nine-year-old at the center of the story. I need to have some type of narrative voice.” WantNeedsFeelsYearsFirstsChildrenPersonsI CanBookCharacterStoriesVoicePsychologyTypeAdultsDistanceNineNarrativeFirst PersonDeep InsideNine YearsChildren's BooksNarrative Voice Author:John Boyne
“By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.” PeopleI CanBrainPsychologyMagicElementsProgrammingHacksCombiningHypnosis Author:Keith Barry
“I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.” IfsWayWellsI CanBookTurnsTermCan DoClearPsychologySawsHonestListsHonestlySubstanceIngredientsEditorsWarningReversePublishersDisturbedAssessmentPoisonousPharmacyReverse Psychology Author:Daniel Handler
“I like developing characters who I find to have interesting psychology. Like politics and sex, but I'm really looking at bigger social problems that interest me, and that I can obsess over for a while.” I CanCharacterProblemSocialSexInterestInterestingPsychologyBiggerDevelopingSocial Problems Author:Mora Stephens
“Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.” MenI CanReasonPsychologyMembersInsultLabour Author:Neville Chamberlain
“My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga.” I CanSpeakPsychologyDegreesYogaDepthPops Author:Gary Kraftsow
“I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.” PeopleKnowsI CanBookWinningPartyClearPsychologyDrinkRespectArgumentDignityBeerOpponentsInvitesTopicsFunny InspirationalSteersContentionDaveGreat RespectWinning An Argument Author:Dave Barry
“I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.” I CanDreamMy OwnFictionPsychologyHumorousWittySarcasticMetaphysicsBiographies Author:Mae West
“It's always something that's going to be a part of me. It's the reason why I work so hard each and every day. It's the reason I come to work dedicated to become the best that I can be. Nothing's going to come easy in life, and I've learned a lot of lessons, some the hard way, and I think just the things that I've been through have helped mold me into the person I am and what (is in) my future and that's continuing to do things the right way.” ThinkingWayPersonsI CanHardReasonEasySportsPsychologyLessonsCommitmentReason WhyI've LearnedDedicatedContinuingRight WayMoldMy FutureAmerican FootballHard WaySports Psychology Author:Michael Vick
“I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.” LongI CanHardReasonBigsSportsEffortPsychologyHard WorkCommitmentHandleDedicationBig ThingsSports Psychology Author:Rory McIlroy
“Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it” I CanPlayPsychologyComputerPercentChessThirtyFortyPlaying Chess Author:Judit Polgar
“There are some indications of how the character should behave based on the script, and then as actor makes it his or her own. I got to know one of the writers, Chris Terrio, and we were able to discuss things at length and figure out who this person is to create a real psychology behind what is, perhaps, in a comic book, a less than totally modern psychology. I can only say I've been asked to play an interesting role. A complicated, challenging person.” KnowsShouldPersonsI CanBookRealPlayCharacterAbleActorsChallengesInterestingBehindsRolesPsychologyModernFiguresScriptsComplicatedComicBehaveLengthComic BookIndicationModern Psychology Author:Jesse Eisenberg
“I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.” IfsTryingKindDoeI CanSometimesMatterLyingNamesMy OwnPsychologyMinutesFiguresPrintReverseCommodityPersonal ThingsDoes It MatterReverse Psychology Author:River Phoenix
“I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism....Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche.” WorldYearsI CanBodyNightUniverseHeavenWonderMillionsPsychologyThis WorldDevelopmentDepthMediumsFixedHeightAbundanceAweOrganismsPsychicsSpatial Author:Carl Jung
“I'm conscious of race whenever I'm writing, just as I'm conscious of class, religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up the human experience. I don't think I can do a good job if I'm not paying attention to what's meaningful to people, and in American culture, there isn't anything that informs human interaction more than the idea of race.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingHumansI CanIdeasJobsCultureCan DoRaceAttentionClassPsychologyConsciousMeaningfulPay AttentionInteractionGood JobHuman ExperienceAmerican Culture Author:Dwayne McDuffie