Best 287 quotes in «psychological quotes» category

A fight is mental, not just physical and psychological warfare is absolutely part of that.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

All problems in mathematics are psychological.

Although I studied, I have never been taught paintingbecause I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.

A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find another kind of work, because it's the only compulsion that will drive you through the psychological nightmares of writing.

A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

A Separation Cosmology produces a Separation Psychology, a psychological viewpoint that says that I am over here and you are over there.

A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.

Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.

Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if youve truly lived through it.

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.

Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.

Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

Everything that we put into our bodies should also be of nature, a part of that cycle of nature. Once you start messing with that - as I said, everything is connected. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.

For me, the thing that I love about the show is the psychological thriller aspect of it. It's frightening and it's scary, and there are all these things that happen. You have these really dramatic scenes, and then you get in a scene with him and I can't tell you how many times I would start cracking up.

Freedom of the will is a psychological fiction.

Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world.

If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.

Green exercise improves psychological health.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.

If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine.

I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.

I have also been invited to talk to psychologists and psychoanalysts and I liked that very much. Because, they are the ones who are bringing a lot of very, you know, problematic ideas about sexuality and gender into psychiatric and psychological settings. And I like having some influence there.

It is very important to learn to weigh up objectively (or assess intuitively) the totality of the competitive and psychological factors.

In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.

I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away

It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.

It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.

Megan could have kissed him. If there weren't a million obstacles, both physical and psychological, in her way, of course.