Psychology Quotes - Page 15

• The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs.

  George F. Kennan

  Loss, Self, Judging

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• Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Order, Law, Different

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• When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Break Up, Exercise, Drug Use

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• I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.

  Joan Cusack

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.

  Gustave Le Bon

  People, Sphinx, Crowds

  Gustave Le Bon (2012). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Ideas, Done, Wells

  "Daniel Kahneman: 'We're beautiful devices'" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2011.

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• Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.

  Alva Noe

  Philosophy, Medicine, Mind

  "You Are Not Your Brain: Interview With Alva Noe, Ph.D". Interview with Deepak Chopra on Sirius XM Radio, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2009.

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• Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

  Alva Noe

  Philosophy, Medicine, Perception

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• Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

  James J. Gibson

  Philosophy, Color, Medicine

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• It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.

  Clement Mok

  Art, Philosophy, Unique

  "Everything Reverberates: Thoughts on Design". Book edited by American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1998.

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• Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object control is the basis of one of the five most fundamental metaphors for our inner life. To control objects, we must learn to control our bodies. We learn both forms of control together. Self-control and object control are inseparable experiences from earliest childhood. It is no surprise that we should have as a metaphor-a primary metaphor-Self Control is Object Control.

  George Lakoff

  Philosophy, Self, Should Have

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• Engagement is the conscious inhabitation of your body and mind. Practice is happening when your open awareness is moving with, in and through your embodied activity. Intrinsic to practice is your conscious participation with your life. Engagement is the conduction of your free and open awareness through your activities, whatever they may be.

  Robert McNamara

  Philosophy, Moving, Practice

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• Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Reality, Squares

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• To lose sensibility, to see what one sees,
  As if sight had not its own miraculous thrift,
  To hear only what one hears, one meaning alone,
  As if the paradise of meaning ceased
  To be paradise, it is this to be destitute.

  Wallace Stevens

  Philosophy, Sight, Medicine

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.331, Vintage

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• Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance... everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.

  Amanda Schull

  Mistake, Philosophy, Medicine

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• We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.

  Tara Brach

  Philosophy, Acceptance, Compassion

  "Radical Acceptance of Desire" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2013.

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• All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.

  Pema Chodron

  Philosophy, Character, Medicine

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• The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

  Carl Jung

  Philosophy, Self, Medicine

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• Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Dream, Philosophy, Self

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• Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal domains in our lives. Cardiac, endocrine, and immune functions are improved with mindfulness practices. Empathy, compassion, and interpersonal sensivity seem to be improved. People who come to develop the capacity to pay attention in the present moment without grasping on to their inevitable judgments also develop a deeper sense of well-being and what can be considered a form of mental coherence.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Philosophy, Compassion, Practice

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• Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Medicine, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• But insensate Time is nothing if not cruel and heartless. It corrodes then destroys, so that the man you literally and figuratively looked up to with your chubby face, who scooped you up to cross the street and patted you on the head to laughter, will later look through you from a crooked hospital bed then blindly up at you while wearing makeup in a bargain casket. The people who now surround you generating warmth will disappear leaving only an empty chill; the body you own and the brain it houses will malfunction.

  Sergio De La Pava

  Laughter, Philosophy, Men

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• We have more experience of movement and more capacity for it than of feeling and thought... We know much more about movement than we do about anger, love, envy or even thought. It is relatively easy to learn to recognize the quality of movement than the quality of other factors.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Philosophy, Medicine, Envy

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• Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.

  Jack Kornfield

  Philosophy, Medicine, Waiting

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• There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position.

  Pal Benko

  Play, Trying, Boring

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