Psychological Quotations

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.

I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

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

Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

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

You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside.

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.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

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

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

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

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.

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.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

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

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

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.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

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

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

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear so obvious.

Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.

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

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

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

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.

Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor ...

To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.

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

Well my motto was "Never Monologue a Clegane", because Beric Dondarrion and Thoros were messing around with The Hound and Beric essentially got killed, even though he got to come back, and then the monologue is just a foolish thing to do. But it's also psychological state of mind, he can't get over his sister.

The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.

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

To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.

It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.

Much of the left's hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding, producing logical contradictions that would be impossible to sustain were it not for the central element faith plays in the left's new religion. The basic tenet of their faith is this: Maybe they were wrong on facts and policies, but they are good and conservatives are evil. You almost want to give it to them. It's all they have left.

the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings.

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

I am very concerned about the environment and psychological health of this beautiful planet.

You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

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

The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.

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

It goes back to the if identity becomes your achievement, what do you do, this is what happens? And I do think it leads to psychological disorders. You have to start doing things and stop thinking about yourself.

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

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

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one individual we can decide whether he is "mass" or not. The mass is all that which sets no value on itself good or ill based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everybody," and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else.

A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.

When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don't get it from a specific religious doctrine, you'll get it from the kind of films I like to make. A film like The Terminator is consciously meant to give a sense of empowerment to the individual.

What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

Getting control of stuff makes people feel like they have more control over their lives - maybe irrationally, but it's one of these psychological truths.

There's no psychological barrier anymore that stops a young person or an older person from taking heroin.

Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only after your own good, not the good of others and that's extremely harmful.

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.

Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.

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

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.

A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

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

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

And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

I really enjoy the experience of playing humans. The psychological game is so much more important.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you had identified ­ neither the physical nor the psychological form of "me". That form goes. It dissolves and who you are beyond form emerges through the opening where that form was. One could almost say that every form of life obscures God.

People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.

Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.

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

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.

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

The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves.

I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution.

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

The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.