“The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.” IfsThinkingWantEasyWealthSimplePsychologyImpossiblePersonalityDevelopmentVariousCuresStrifeRoyalVisualizationPresent DayWishful ThinkingDiscordReformersDissolutionDisinterestedIgnobleGullibility Author:Agnes Repplier
“Sex is ... scratching an itch Everything else is something we project on a very simple act. It's the psychology, not the biology, that's complicated.” SexSimplePsychologyProjectsComplicatedBiology Book:Dating For Dummies Source: Dating For Dummies
“When consequentialist theories are developed in terms of an equally shallow psychology of the good - such as a crude form of hedonism - the results can sometimes strike sensible people as revolting and inhuman. People can be reduced to simple repositories of positive or negative sensory states, and their humanity is lost sight of entirely.” PeopleSometimesStatesFormHumanityLostTermSimpleResultsPsychologyTheoryNegativeSightStrikesSensibleShallowCrudeSensoryInhumanHedonism Author:Allen W. Wood
“The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.” MindSexSimplePsychologyGreaterInvolvedComplexes Author:John Desmond Bernal
“There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.” WorldTryingYearsWellsRunningTogetherWinningSimpleRacePsychologyHorseDecadesRacingEvidentSociologySimple ThingsHorse Racing Author:Jane Smiley
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” PeopleWayArtHardArtistSimplePsychologyLife PhilosophyIntellectualSimplifySimple ThingsHard ThingsHard WaySimple Ways Author:Charles Bukowski
“Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.” GivingDoeEarthFunnyScienceCoursesSimplePsychologyMonthsDrugBehaviorSixGive MeExperimentsTortureNonsenseCreedsSix MonthsElectricalDown To EarthAppliancesRecitingBehaviorismNo NonsenseElectrical Appliances Author:W. H. Auden
“I've decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it's the right thing to do.” ThinkingReasonActionSimpleMoralPsychologyPureEthicsDecidedThings To DoRight Thing Author:Charlie Crist
“The healing power of music is vast. Music therapy is in its infancy in Western psychology. If we knew more, we'd be able to do amazing things, and maybe even make permanent changes in the brain's mysterious workings. With a simple song and four chords, you might be able to do something useful, even life-changing. With all the songs you know, you might be a virtual, veritable medicine chest for the right person.” IfsKnowsWritingPersonsMightAbleSongSimpleHealingBrainPsychologyFourMusic IsMedicineWesternMysteriousPermanentTherapyLife ChangingSongwritingChestsChordsAmazing ThingsInfancyRight PersonPower Of MusicMusic TherapyPermanent Change Author:Gary Talley
“Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.” ProblemWisdomFallSimpleMistakePsychologyErrorsSimplicityVersionsExpertsMaking MistakesSophisticatedWe All Make MistakesLayman Author:Amos Tversky
“The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing these glasses, all he could admire was his own reflection.” SimplePsychologyReflectionStandingAimGlassesAdmireStaringBoardsOpponentsOccupationFavouriteKarpov Author:Viktor Korchnoi
“A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.” PeopleFeelsSimplePsychologyWonderfulDiscoveryComplexesPsychiatristPsychoanalysis Author:S. N. Behrman
“In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is free from all the delays of its genetic evolution, an evolution which is consequently explained by simple psychology. The virility of knowledge increases with each conquest of the constructive abstraction.” SimpleKnowledgePsychologyCuttingEvolutionExerciseConceptsFunctionIncreaseBackgroundsDelayAbstractionConquestConstructive Author:Gaston Bachelard
“First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.” LifeSelfCharacterRealityTruthLife QuotesSimplePsychologyIdentityPerspectivePridePersonalityEgoPerceptionCreatingIllusionExperienceSurrenderMeaningCharacteristicsMeaning Of LifeMaskDestroyingCreateSubjectiveLet GoKamandKojouriKamand KojouriDestroyFacadeFirstPsycheJungPossessionsGive InJungian Author:Kamand Kojouri