Psychology Quotes - Page 32

• I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it now and I think I'm a better athlete because of that.

  Libby Trickett

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

  Picabo Street

  Sports, Morning, Want

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• Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Sports, Jobs

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• One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average.

  J. Michael Bailey

  Average, Facts, Human Nature

  "Stereotypes of homosexuals". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. August 23, 2002.

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• If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

  Walter Smith

  Success, Sports, Team

  "Walter Smith says a final goodbye to a troubled Rangers" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Sports, Trying, Valleys

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• I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.

  Eric Shanteau

  Sports, Cancer, Perspective

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• The coaching profession doesn't hand you any gifts.

  Randy Carlyle

  Sports, Hockey, Hands

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• Just because you've had one or two of those games, you can't really go back to the next practice and change everything. That's the most important thing in those situations that you don't think too much, you don't try to change too much because then you're going to be in deep trouble, that's what I think. It's all about keep working on what's been successful for you and keep believing what you're doing is the right thing.

  Jonas Gustavsson

  Sports, Believe, Hockey

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• To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

  William James

  Teacher, Educational, Philosophy

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.16, Harvard University Press

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• But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task.

  William James

  Teacher, Philosophy, Spring

  William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Philosophy, Educational, Essence

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• You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Killers, Sometimes

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• Everyone who has been to an Olympics says expect the unexpected. That kind of psychology games does go on, so I'm kind of expecting things to happen but I don't know who from. I think it's kind of silly but I'm prepared for it. I'd probably just laugh it off because it means that they are afraid of racing me, so it's like a huge compliment

  Libby Trickett

  Motivational, Sports, Silly

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• If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Art, Freedom, Hero

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• At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.

  Dervla Murphy

  Country, Years, Two

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.76, The Overlook Press

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• We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.

  Maureen Duffy

  Morning, Knowledge, Humility

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• If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more affected by what I have called the scientistic prejudice, and by specious claims of what science can achieve.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Philosophy, Prejudice, Branches

  Friedrich August von Hayek's Prize Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1974.

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• The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget. spiritual Dimensions of Psychology."

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Hate

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• We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.

  Sigmund Freud

  Girl, Dark, Boys

  The Question of Lay Analysis pt. 4 (1926)

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• The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

  Plato

  Wish, Firsts, Ethics

  Plato (2012). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But realism, being a view about the status of such normative theories, insists that the truth of any firstorder normative standard is not a function of what anyone happens to think of it.

  Russ Shafer-Landau

  Thinking, Views, Order

  Russ Shafer-Landau (2003). “Moral Realism: A Defence”, p.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Pseudo, Periods

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

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• Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

  Chris Cleave

  Fun, Thinking, Stories

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