Psychological Quotes - Page 12

• I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says...' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We are particular students of human nature - not every actor is, of course, but that's what fascinates me about being an actor.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Actors, Want, Students

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.

  Alain de Botton

  Reality, Optimism, Lines

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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

  Janusz Korczak

  Teacher, Educational, Heart

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• Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."

  Questlove

  Jobs, People, Sticks

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Boom Bang a Bang was a huge part of me, maybe a part that I didnt relish, and there might be psychological reasons for that - I was a child being made to do things I didnt want to do. I was perhaps an elitist, a bit of a snob.

  Lulu

  Children, Want, Might

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• 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.

  Vivian Gornick

  Ongoing, World, Scientist

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.28, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from linguistic to experimental or psychological philosophy. In order to know that we are not in the linguistic maze, we need to determine, according to Berkeley, whether the things we are talking about exist; hence we need to look for the relevant perceptions. For him, this usually means retiring into himself and trying to imagine whether x exists, having formed the best definition possible of x.

  David Berman

  Philosophy, Moving, Mean

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• 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.

  Larry Clark

  Psychological Needs, Needs

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• The tension between the call to the desert and to the market place arises not from the greater presence of God in one or the other but from our varying psychological needs to apprehend him in different ways.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Psychological Needs, Different, Desert

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• Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Reality, Choices

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.

  Alistair Brownlee

  Thinking, Effort, Trying

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence -has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.

  Marianne Williamson

  Grief, Heart, Loss

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• Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

  Judith Viorst

  Effort, Body, Desperate

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully posited 'reality' ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.

  William James

  Reality, Ideas, Giving

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.74, 谷月社

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• Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Memories, Writing, Ghost

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• Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

  Tami Hoag

  Family, Mind, Bacteria

  Tami Hoag (2003). “Ashes to Ashes: A Novel”, p.71, Bantam

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• Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in its turn, needs to know the physiological aspects of sensory function, in order rightly to appreciate the psychological.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Order, Appreciate, Psychology

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Self, Soul

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1961). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”

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• psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Psychology, Growth, Facts

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• Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Clear Head, Squash

  "Prosectors demand jail for Becker". www.cnn.com. October 23, 2002.

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• Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

  Graydon Carter

  Long, Water, Brain

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• 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.

  Otto Rank

  Future, Creativity, Civilization

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• Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our psychological, ethical and spiritual needs...We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us.

  Mike Hulme

  Spiritual, Ideas, Energy

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• Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the family. It involves a psychological adaptation of family life to military or industrial methods, supervision of family life, and training family life for military or industrial service. Technique can leave nothing untouched in a civilization. Everything is its concern. Technique, which is destroying all other civilizations, is more than a simple mechanism: it's a whole civilization in itself.

  Jacques Ellul

  Military, Army, Technology

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• The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress

  Irving Janis

  Powerful, Stress, Responsibility

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