Psychologist Quotes - Page 9

• We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

  Jared Diamond

  Evil, Mind, Literature

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• We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Sports, Needs, Analysis

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

  Andy Murray

  Sports, Athlete, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Truth, Learning, Knowledge

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.311, Knopf

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• One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women.

  Geoffrey Gray

  Found

  "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.

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• I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Children, Sunday

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• People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

  David James

  Athlete, Thinking, People

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• As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.

  Beverley Nichols

  Women, Grievance, Worst

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• Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not for our exteriors, but for our interiors?

  John Paul Caponigro

  Mirrors, Long, Gestalt

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• Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.

  Harry Hooton

  Men, Order, Ideas

  Harry Hooton (1961). “It is Great to be Alive”

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• If the coach is good, I dont think a psychologist is needed.

  Hansie Cronje

  Thinking, Needed, Coaches

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• How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.

  Matt Ridley

  Sex, Writing, Differences

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• There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain wins over you, according as to whether you can, or cannot, call up that extra ounce of endurance that helps you to break through the circle of yourself and do the hitherto impossible. That extra ounce carries you through 'le dernier quart d' heure.' Psychologist have a name for it, I believe. Christians call it the Grace of God.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Christian, Pain, Believe

  Elizabeth Goudge (1942). “The Castle on the Hill”

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• Wise, compassionate and accessible, David Benner's The Gift of Being Yourself is truly a gift to the dedicated seeker. The author draws on his professional experience as a psychologist and his own lifelong vocation as a Christian. The result is a book that felicitously weaves together the insights of psychology and Christian spirituality.

  Margaret Guenther

  Christian, Wise, Being Yourself

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• You psychologists focus on what is wrong with people; I want to focus on what is right and what could be right.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  People, Focus, Want

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• Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in thoroughly favorable positions, and that this weakness has consistently tarnished his record.

  Hans Kmoch

  Mistake, Weakness, Records

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• Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel like actively shifting anything in your life, there is nothing that person can do to change you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Travel, Years, World

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• The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organizational ability of a Prussian field marshal, the insight into human relations of a Viennese psychologist, the discipline of a man who prints the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, the exquisite sense of timing of an Olympic gymnast, and by the way, a natural instinct and flair for exceptional use of language.

  Leon Uris

  Prayer, Men, Discipline

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• What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence. Economists refer to these as noncognitive skills, psychologists call them personality traits, and the rest of us sometimes think of them as character.

  Paul Tough

  Children, Character, Self Confidence

  Paul Tough (2012). “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg calls "practical intelligence." To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like "knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for for maximum effect.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Morning, Rap, Moving

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• I grew up thinking the best job in the world would be a Jedi and being a psychologist is the closest thing I could get, so I wanted to be a Jedi and I don't want to be a Sith, so that is what keeps me on the straight and narrow.

  John Amaechi

  Jobs, Thinking, Best Job

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Would Be, Normal, Middle

  "Gabourey Sidibe Interview THE BIG C". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 17, 2010.

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• I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.

  Gloria Estefan

  Thinking, Doctors, People

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• People are, by and large, quite poor at judging correct absolute values but are astute about determining relative values. Psychologists call this coherent arbitrariness, which suggests that individuals are coherent when they compare prices on a relative basis but arbitrary when those prices are considered versus fundamental value.

  Michael Mauboussin

  Relative Value, Judging, People

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• I don't think anybody should go through life without a team of psychologists. I have been through times when I'm literally squatting in the living room, having one of those open-throated cries, where you're crying all the way to your butthole. I always believed I would come out of it, though.

  Jim Carrey

  Life, Team, Thinking

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