Psychology Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Thinking, People

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• Interesting survey in the current Journal of Abnormal Psychology: New York
  City has a higher percentage of people you shouldn't make any sudden moves
  around than any other city in the world.

  David Letterman

  Funny, New York, Moving

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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• When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the name; they buy what they call the "good-will"- that is, they buy you. And they proceed to change your whole psychology - everything that you believe about life. You might object to it, if you knew; but they do their work so subtly that you never guess what is happening to you!

  Upton Sinclair

  Believe, Media, Names

  Upton Sinclair (1928). “The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism”, p.246, University of Illinois Press

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• The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

  Edward Thorndike

  Character, Animal, Study

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.26, Routledge

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• The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Self, Development, Matter

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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• The object is evident in the name of the discipline. Similarly, theology (theologia) is the study of God. The object of theology is not the church's teaching or the experience of pious souls. It is not a subset of ethics, religious studies, cultural anthropology, or psychology. God is the object of this discipline.

  Michael Horton

  Religious, Teaching, Names

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• Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

  Roz Savage

  Ocean, Important, Technique

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• Over the course of the years, I've learned [that] fashion is a fascinating business about selling magic. It is done on the backs of our optimism and our insecurity. It is as much psychology as commerce. But I've also learned that every day we make split second decisions about people based on their attire and those decisions can have powerful implications - see the story of Trayvon Martin and his hoodie. It's important for us to understand how fashion works and how we connect to it.

  Robin Givhan

  Fashion, Powerful, Inspiration

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• For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a serious strategist – on the premises of Russian history. Understanding US values and psychology are not his strong suits. Nor has understanding Russian history and psychology been a strong point among US policymakers.’

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Strong, Understanding, Russian History

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• The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions.

  Steven Pinker

  Numbers, Tasks, Add

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.517, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Nonsense, Psychologist

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.234, Penguin

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• Let us not have a computer psychology that makes us think we know it all. All answers on computers - but no surprises. The challenge of love. God reveals himself through surprises.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Challenges, Answers

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• The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big prospective dividends or gains in income in the remote future; (b) the hope of selling at a profit, and realizing a capital gain in the immediate future; (c) the vogue of reckless promotions, taking advantage of the habituation of the public to great expectations; (d) the development of downright fraud, imposing on a public which had grown credulous and gullible.

  Irving Fisher

  Expectations, Income, Development

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• Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

  Albert Camus

  Ideology, Humans, Contrary

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.116, Vintage

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• In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

  Jean Piaget

  Epistemology, Developmental, Absolutes

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• I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.

  Martin Seligman

  Trying, Faces, Smiley

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• Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

  Betty Friedan

  Inspirational, Men, Self

  Betty Friedan (1998). “The Second Stage: With a New Introduction”, p.82, Harvard University Press

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• The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Vocabulary, Names, Alchemist

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• Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the "things" they like and need and feel impelled to acquire. But our societal and political arrangements are just as much manipulations of game-pieces and rules as is any Atari or Sega product. The subliminal psychology that drives people to become addicted to games, not to be able to see over the edges of their labyrinths, is transferable to any field whatsoever.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Reality, Thinking

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• History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

  Hippolyte Taine

  History, Problem, Mechanic

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• Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis

  Chris Hedges

  Eugenics, Nazi, States

  Chris Hedges (2014). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.117, Nation Books

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• I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

  Alan Greenspan

  Issues, Interesting, Gold

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• Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

  Karl Abraham

  Children, Opposites, Yield

  Karl Abraham (1968). “Selected Papers, with an Introductory Memoir by Ernest Jones”

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• Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul.

  Jean Houston

  Journey, Practice, Soul

  Jean Houston (1987). “The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology”, Tarcher

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