Best 287 quotes in «psychological quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Green exercise improves psychological health.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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