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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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

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.

Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations in the physical world rather than the psychological one.

The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

The best outcomes that are seen for therapy intervention and for other psychological interventions is where the therapist really connects and the person really feels understood. That matters often even more than the technique.

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

The "biggest" poems I ever made are based on the psychological principal of the "Johari Window:" what the self freely shares with others; what the self hides from others; what others hide from the self; and what is unknown to the self and others.

The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him.

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.

The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.