Psychology Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. . . .

  Carl Jung

  Fate, Creative, Joy

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• I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.

  Carl Jung

  Philosophical, Views, Psychics

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.

  Carl Rogers

  Hurt, Clients, Problem

  Carl Ransom Rogers, Howard Kirschenbaum, Valerie Land Henderson (1989). “The Carl Rogers Reader”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations or his psychological health... We must find out what psychology might be if it could free itself from the stultifying effects of limited, pessimistic and stingy preoccupations with human nature.

  Abraham Maslow

  Successful, Men, Negative

  "Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow".

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• Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Tools, Today

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.189, Open Road Media

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• The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them. And one can debate long and profitably on the rule of Nobody, which is what the political form known as bureau-cracy truly is….we have become very much accustomed by modern psychology and sociology, not to speak of modern bureaucracy, to explaining away the responsibility of the doer for his deed in terms of this or that kind of determinism.

  Hannah Arendt

  Responsibility, Men, Essence

  "The Origins of Totalitarianism". Book by Hannah Arendt, progressive.org. 1951.

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• I believe most definitely that one must not only grapple with the problems on the board, one must also make every effort to combat the thoughts and will of the opponent.

  Mikhail Tal

  Believe, Effort, Boards

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• With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.

  Garry Kasparov

  Victory, Coats, Ability To Change

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

  Antonin Scalia

  Rocks, Decorating, Interiors

  Antonin Scalia (2012). “Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice”, p.141, Regnery Publishing

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• Hurdlers are sprinters with a problem. They're not satisfied just to sprint. Anybody can sprint, some not as well as others of course, but anybody can sprint. Not everybody can run hurdles. There's an extra dimension involved. Hurdlers would make a good subject for a thesis in psychology - they are of apersuasion that just needs an extra dimension.

  Denny Moyer

  Motivational, Running, Track

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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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• I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Inspiration, Writing, Understanding

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• In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

  Aloe Blacc

  Real, School, Brain

  "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.

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• To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential.

  Andre Braugher

  Character, Men, Numbers

  Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 24, 2006.

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• Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

  Conrad Black

  Doe, Three, Half

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

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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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