Best 287 quotes in «psychological quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

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.

The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

There's not a whole lot of similarity between the two societies, Russian and American. There are similarities behind psychological forces. One thing we can learn is that things can change pretty fast. And this idea that we know who we are and that things can only get so bad in this country - that's wrong.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense - there's a kind of soul-murder going on.

This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself!

Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.