Psychological Quotes - Page 4

• Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work. There is only one psychological assertion that I would insist upon. That is: the SELF takes precedence.

  Stanley Elkin

  Religious, Philosophy, Self

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• I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.

  Toby Young

  Father, People, Parent

  "Forever Young". Interview With Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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

  Amrita Sher-Gil

  Makeup, Taught, Resent

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• The so-called transcendental meditation is nothing but a psychological tranquilizer. It is nothing—just a tranquilizer. It helps, but it is good for sleep, not for meditation. You can sleep well, a more calm sleep will be there. It is good, but it is not meditation at all. If you repeat a word constantly it creates a certain boredom, and boredom is good for sleep.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Boredom, Meditation

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• You can train your mental strength just like you train your body. If your body looks fit or ripped, it looks strong, and you can flex your muscles. So, physically, you have a certain strength. Mentally, it's the same thing. You can train your psychological strength.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Strong, Looks, Body

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological factors are often decisive. An adversary who feels inferior is in reality so.

  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

  Strong, Military, War

  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (friherre) (1953). “The Memoirs of Marshal Mannerheim”

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• I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.

  Ennio Morricone

  Animal, Sound, Coyotes

  "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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• Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it

  Tim Brown

  Organization, Effectiveness, Space

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

  Allan Bloom

  Philosopher, Economic, Theoretical

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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

  Leroy Chiao

  Space, Energy, Demand

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• To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, People, Profound

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Reality, Organization

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• A touching and compassionate yet completely professional account of the psychological--indeed spiritual--dimensions of the doctorDpatient relationship that make the difference between fixing and healing.

  Melvin Konner

  Spiritual, Healing, Differences

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• Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Dull, Made

  Ramesh Grover, Jiddu Krishnamurti, David Bohm (2006). “Kalachakra Meditations: Based on the Discussions Between J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm in the Ending of Time”

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• Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mind, Problem, Resolve

  Jiddu Krishnamurti's first public talk in Ojai, California, April 1, 1980.

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Political, Becoming, Reason

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic and political arrangements, psychological and anthro-pological theories, and views of human nature, our future destiny, globalization, and even architectural patterns and sports preferences. We all live in flow states; there is always new wine, always old wineskins. We, indeed, find ourselves pursuing a neverending quest.

  Don Edward Beck

  Sports, Wine, Destiny

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• The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him.

  Peter Drucker

  Spiritual, Men, Needs

  "Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1959.

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• I've been fortunate in that the films I've worked on in the horror genre are themselves not pure horror, and have allowed me to write in a wide variety of styles. Those scores contain elements of fantasy, drama, action, comedy... really all types of scoring, and that gives the horror moments more impact. As for scoring the horror moments, I do like approaching the music from the psychological aspect, scoring to the characters' thoughts, emotions, motivations and such.

  Douglas Pipes

  Motivation, Drama, Writing

  Source: dailydead.com

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• The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.

  Alfred Adler

  Goal, Psychology, Feelings

  From a new translation of "Progress in Individual Psychology" by Alfred Adler, in the AAISF/ATP Archives, 1923.

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• I do sort of believe that in life all manifestations of evil usually come from an emotional place. They come from some kind of emotional heartbreak or some psychological damage. I'm not a psychologist and that's probably for the best but I am interested in it.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Believe, Emotional, Evil

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

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• 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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• I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas.

  Woody Allen

  Ideas, Stories, Comedy

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is a system which can also in some measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human relationships.

  Mervyn Levy

  Emotional, Expression, Satisfaction

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• No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?

  Ethel Smyth

  Artist, Blow, Doubt

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