“I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.” MotivationPsychologyMagicNew YorkPerceptionRootsUniversityProfessorsDreadExistentialThesis Book:An American Dream: A Novel Source: An American Dream: A Novel
“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
“Studying neuro-linguistic programming is what teaches you how to implant and extract thoughts. Mixing psychology, hypnotism and magic somewhat goes into this area called mentalism, which is what I mostly do. It’s magic of the mind.” MindTeachStudyPsychologyMagicAreasProgrammingMixingImplants Author:Keith Barry
“I feel there's so much still to learn about acting. But there is some magic in the capturing of performance and in the process of editing a performance. The psychology of human beings and what's coming through the face... that fascinates me.” FeelsHumansStillsFacesProcessHuman BeingsActingPsychologyMagicPerformancesEditing Author:Ralph Fiennes
“All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.” BelieveReasonResultsBrainPsychologyMagicActivityBehaveNo ReasonBehaviourCognitive Science Author:Steven Pinker
“If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.” IfsArtPurposeWinningConsciousnessClearPsychologyMagicTendenciesBranchesGoddessMindlessIdiocy Author:Starhawk
“It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening. Psychology destroys the mystery, this kind of magic quality. It can be reduced to certain neuroses or certain things, and since it is now named and defined, it's lost its mystery and the potential for a vast, infinite experience.” KnowsKindMeanMightCertainLostQualityPsychologyMagicMysteryHappeningsInfiniteDefinedNeurosis Author:David Lynch
“I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.” PeopleArtWould BeWantedHumanityFeltTermPsychologyMagicStudentsReactionsCoinsMagician Author:Criss Angel
“Over the course of the years, I've learned [that] fashion is a fascinating business about selling magic. It is done on the backs of our optimism and our insecurity. It is as much psychology as commerce. But I've also learned that every day we make split second decisions about people based on their attire and those decisions can have powerful implications - see the story of Trayvon Martin and his hoodie. It's important for us to understand how fashion works and how we connect to it.” PeopleYearsImportantDoneStoriesInspirationCoursesDecisionPowerfulPsychologyMagicFashionOptimismSellingAfrican AmericanI've LearnedFascinatingInsecuritySplitsCommerceImplicationsAttireTrayvon MartinTrayvon Author:Robin Givhan
“Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.” KnowsShouldKidsSchoolPsychologyMagicDesignSociologyDecorators Author:Nate Berkus
“There is no part of one’s beliefs about oneself which cannot be modified by sufficiently powerful psychological techniques. There is nothing about oneself which cannot be taken away or changed. The proper stimuli can, if correctly applied, turn communists into fascists, saints into devils, the meek into heroes, and vice-versa. There is no sovereign sanctuary within ourseles which represents our real nature. There is nobody at home in the internal fortress. Everything we cherish as our ego, everything we believe in, is just what we have cobbled together out of the accident of our birth and subsequent experiences. With drugs, brainwashing, and other techniques of extreme persuasion, we can quite readily make a man a devotee of a different ideology, the patriot of a different country, or the follower of a different religion.” PhilosophyPsychologyMagicChaosMagickChaos MagickChaos MagicPeter J Carroll Author:Peter J. Carroll