“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations.” HumansReasonReligionBeliefProcessRealizingPsychologyAtheismEmotionalCriticalPostsMotiveJustifyQuestioningOutlookComfortingSkepticalDefault Author:Steven Novella
“Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.” RealizingPsychologyFoodEatingFundamentalsDepthSexualityNeglectAggressionFood And Eating Author:James Hillman
“The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance; all these are elemental. Batting is rather a study in psychology, a sizing up of a pitcher and catcher and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.” LittlesMatterRealizingAbilityStudyPsychologyCrimePicksImportanceDetailsSwingsImmenseBatsClueObservingDetectivesPitcherStanceElementalsBattingCatchersProper Time Author:Ty Cobb
“Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be.” HappensSportsRealizingAcceptingStepsPsychologyFieldsTomorrowTrainIndifferenceMeant To BeRefinedWhatever HappensSports Psychology Author:Scott Hamilton
“Psychotherapy can help some people, especially people who are neurotic, who are always making problems for themselves. We are like a rider on an elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll go where we want, but if he has other desires, he'll go where he wants. They need to get a better relationship between the rider and the elephant. In part, you get it just from watching yourself stumble around in life, make mistakes, then read a little psychology and stop blaming yourself. Realize that I am flawed. I am complicated. I am divided, and I'm doing the best I can.” PeopleHelpingProblemDesireRealizingMistakePsychologyBlameBusyComplicatedMaking MistakesFlawedNeuroticPsychotherapy Author:Jonathan Haidt
“Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.” GivingFeelingsActionBeliefRealizingLevelsResultsPsychologyPersonalityNeededBehaviourOur ActionsCyberneticsPsycho Cybernetics Author:Maxwell Maltz
“How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realize ourselves, where self-revelation is possible, where interest in and love for soul is paramount.” KnowsLoveInspirationalNeedsKindSoulSelfInterestRealizingKnowingPsychologyRelationshipConnectionsAnd LoveIntimateRevelationsParamountIndividuationStrong RelationshipSelf Revelation Book:The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology Source: The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” LifeInspirationalYearsProblemHappinessSuccessMotherPresidentRealizingAttitudeResponsibilityDestinyPsychologyFateConfidenceDepressionDecidedTwentiesElectionBlameMindsetHard TimesEcologyGrowth MindsetYour DestinyPersonal ResponsibilityPsychologistBe True To YourselfLoving LifeLife HappinessAlways HappyBest YearJust Be HappyJoy HappinessProblems In LifeLife And HappinessAlways Be HappyJust Being YouBlaming OthersOthers HappinessSelf ResponsibilitySuccess Is Not MeasuredLife DestinyResponsibility For Your LifeLife And DestinyDestiny And ChoiceControl Of Your LifeSharing HappinessMy Own HappinessResponsibilities In LifeOutgrowingControl Your DestinyBe Your Own PersonResponsibility To OthersBest Years Of Your LifeBlaming Yourself Author:Albert Ellis
“The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big prospective dividends or gains in income in the remote future; (b) the hope of selling at a profit, and realizing a capital gain in the immediate future; (c) the vogue of reckless promotions, taking advantage of the habituation of the public to great expectations; (d) the development of downright fraud, imposing on a public which had grown credulous and gullible.” BigsRealizingPsychologyDevelopmentExpectationsGainsAdvantageProfitDebtIncomeSellingFraudPhasesPromotionRecklessImposingLureVogueDividendsGreat ExpectationsTaking AdvantageGullibleCapital Gains Author:Irving Fisher
“You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.” KnowsMindPhilosophyBodyRealizingPsychologyAuthorityMedicineSensesSoma Book:Sayings of J. Krishnamurti Source: Sayings of J. Krishnamurti