Psychological Quotes - Page 19

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

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Law, Procedures, Justification

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

  George H. Mead

  Psychology, Phases, Individual

  "Mind, Self, and Society". Book by George Herbert Mead, 1934.

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• In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.

  C. Lloyd Morgan

  Exercise, Animal, Psychology

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• We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.

  Joe Slovo

  White, Important, Overcoming

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• Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Reality, Choices

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.

  Sergey Belavenets

  Moving, Benefits, Chess

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

  Oliver Pell

  Reality, Psychological Disorders, Optimism

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• The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Adventure, Player, Men

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• At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.

  Hermann Hesse

  Player, Games, Two

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• In this war, which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in military science. It seems to me that not the least of these was the development of psychological warfare as a specific and effective weapon.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, War, Development

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• Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Doubt, Warfare

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• According to a recent study, ten percent of 'Star Trek' fans meet the psychological criteria for addiction. Deprived of their favourite show, some Trekkies disply withdrawal symptoms similar to drug addicts. Of course, the real difference is that drug addicts aren't nearly as annoying.

  Jay Leno

  Stars, Real, Differences

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• Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to bear on making sense of their illusions and delusions. What then would the truth have to be, such that such human beings are FIT TO KNOW IT at all, even provisionally or tentatively?

  Kenny Smith

  Fitness, Truth, Practice

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• My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Health, Emotional, Thinking

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• Count your blessings for selfish reasons! Psychological studies show that people who are aware of their blessings and feel grateful for them live longer than non-grateful people, have fewer medical problems such as hypertension, earn more and achieve longer marriages.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Gratitude, Selfish, Grateful

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• Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

  Joanna Trollope

  Names, Differences, Perception

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• Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong.

  Li Ka-shing

  Impact, Numbers, Sound

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• The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in the most efficient way to see to it that they have the fewest dissenting opinions, that they have just those characteristics which are wholly incompatible with being an intellectual. This is a real internal psychological contradiction. People have to suppress the very questions which reading books raises.

  Mario Savio

  Military, Real, Reading

  "The University Has Become a Factory". Interview with Jack Fincher, Life magazine, February 26, 1965.

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• If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don't mess with you much. What that means is you've got nine hours of free time every day to devote to generating psychological stress toward other animals in your troop. So the baboon is a wonderful model for living well enough and long enough to pay the price for all the social-stressor nonsense that they create for each other. They're just like us: They're not getting done in by predators and famines, they're getting done in by each other.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Stress, Mean, Animal

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• Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124).

  Edith Schaeffer

  Spiritual, Emotional, Blood

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like The Exorcist, The Shining, even though they scare the living daylights out of me.

  Emmanuelle Vaugier

  Shining, Scare, Things I Love

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• Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Powerful, Color, Force

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• Make no mistake: Satan’s specialty is psychological warfare. If he can turn us on God (“It’s not fair!”), or turn us on others (“It’s their fault!”), or turn us on ourselves (“I’m so stupid!”), we won’t turn on him. If we keep fighting within ourselves and losing our own inner battles, we’ll never have the strength to stand up and fight our true enemy.

  Beth Moore

  Mistake, Stupid, Fighting

  Beth Moore (2008). “Believing God Day by Day: Growing Your Faith All Year Long”, B&H Publishing Group

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• Niceness is the psychological armor of the people-pleaser.

  Harriet B. Braiker

  People, Armor, Niceness

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

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Motivation, Inspiration, Domestic Violence

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