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“I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.”

Used Psychology Theatre Used To Be Cinema

Author:Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.”

People Thinking Way Used Certain Knowing Psychology Ties

Author:Molly Quinn

“What I used to respect was not really aristocracy, but a set of personal qualities which aristocracy then developed better than any other system . . . a set of qualities, however, whose merit lay only in a psychology of non-calculative, non-competitive disinterestedness, truthfulness, courage, and generosity fostered by good education, minimum economic stress, and assumed position, AND JUST AS ACHIEVABLE THROUGH SOCIALISM AS THROUGH ARISTOCRACY.”

Used Quality Psychology Economic Position Stress Lays Socialism Generosity Merit Hats Minimum Aristocracy Truthfulness Good Education Personal Qualities

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“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”

Knows Stills I Can Able Used Psychology Imagine Leaving Pursue Used To Be Endearing

Author:Lindsey Shaw

“He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.”

Used Psychology Used To Be Miserable Miserable Life

Author:David Frost

“Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.”

People Hands Age Used Hate Evil Force Sex Psychology Century Limits Release Tyrants Mechanism Forbidden Breeding Scapegoat Sadism Cathartic

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“People used to trust their doctor. They went to an expert. Now people have new ideas and are thinking for themselves. That's a very important change in our collective psychology.”

People Thinking Important Ideas Used Psychology Doctors Experts Collectives New Ideas

Author:James Hillman

“Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular acts was hardly his concern. The psychology of his day was hedonistic and he worked in that framework and passed it on to Mill, but it is clear as day that Mill was not a hedonist in the sense in which we use that term today, though he used the language of pleasure and pain to express his views.”

“If your own strong ego clashes with other strong egos, you not going to get anywhere. I studied psychology and learned about the many parts of us that we need to integrate so we don't walk around feeling disconnected: personality, soul, ego. If you do feel disconnected, you need to ask which part is feeling that way. Your ego is there to boost you up, if recognized and used correctly.”

Ifs Way Needs Feels Soul Feelings Used Asks Strong Walks Psychology Personality Ego Clash Integrating Boost Disconnected

Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos

“The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the purpose of my story, she should have it with her. I sat on my dad's bed and flipped through page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black-and-white photo which if it were used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful.”

Source: A Complicated Kindness: A Novel

“I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.”

Thinking Want Littles Ideas Used Names Psychology Saws Internet Husband Lists Enthusiasm My Husband Scare Reverse Printed Dave Reverse Psychology

Author:Holly Marie Combs

“Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.”

Humans Used Psychology Rewards Satisfaction Betrayal Fuel Regimes Mistress

Author:Anna Funder

“I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.”

Years Two Used Sleep Break Psychology Two Years Nerves Brainwash

Author:Mordechai Vanunu