Psychological Quotes

Psychological Quote of the day

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.

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

Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?

...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero.

Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really...motivated by psychological disturbance.

Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

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

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.

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

When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that.

Most horror films fail to scare me. I think 'The Ring' plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.

I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

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

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.

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

This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

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

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

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

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

Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our lives have meaning.

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.

Our situation is more psychological than people will admit. Black kids kill Black kids for the same reason cops do. They see no value.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

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

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

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

Although I studied, I have never been taught paintingbecause I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.

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

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

The 3 key components for success are as follows: Psychological Preparedness Physical Conditioning Mental Toughness

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

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