Best 287 quotes in «psychological quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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.

Green exercise improves psychological health.

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

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

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

Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

My philosophy on what makeup is...it's very different from what a woman's is. Makeup came from a very psychological place - of the peacock.

Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position.

Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.

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

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality

Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature.

psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.

Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.

Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.