Psychology Quotes - Page 8

• Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.

  Boris Sidis

  Psychics, Individual, States

  Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

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• Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Educational, Ignorance, Greatness

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• You can imagine over very long timescales, perhaps far beyond the multi-decade time scale, we might be able to ask very deep questions about why we feel the way we feel about things, or why we think of ourselves in certain ways - questions that have been in the realm of psychology and philosophy but have been very difficult to get a firm mechanistic laws-of-physics grasp on.

  Edward Boyden

  Philosophy, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• For me, psychology and art interact and overlap in so many ways. Psychology is the study of the inner life and creativity comes from the imagination and a response to the environment, as you know. So they're both very similar in that way because it's about one's inner life interacting with the environment and what comes from that.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Art, Creativity, Imagination

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• Now I'm starting to understand what the kind of power is. It has been healing for me, and very therapeutic even today. It's one of the reasons why I went back to school to study psychology and mental health, was to understand why that is.

  Sharon Van Etten

  School, Healing, Today

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.

  Eric Weiner

  Meaningful, Laughter, Happy Life

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.325, Random House

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• A psychology degree doesn't get you very far.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Degrees

  "Jerry Bruckheimer Predicts U.S. Film Will No Longer Dominate Internationally". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.

  Jodie Foster

  Children, Thinking, People

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• I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to the, obviously, the individual.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Dream, Thinking, Individual

  "INCEPTION Press Conference Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Emma Thomas". collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Philosophical, People, Interesting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Littles, Want, Should

  "Marjane Satrapi: Superman is Boring, Batman is Hot, Dictators Are Clueless". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. August 13, 2012.

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• The thing that I really like is psychology. I love the human mind. I love the choices you make based on your experiences and instincts and your development based on such experiences and so I guess that's why I love acting so much.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Choices, Mind, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated. Shame is a great motivator as well as deterrent. Do not underestimate the power of ridicule. This is serious stuff not a laughing matter.

  Ali Sina

  Giving, Laughing, Islam

  Source: myislam.dk

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• The only way to create change in anyone`s psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions - or inaction.

  Tony Robbins

  Way, Belief, Action

  Interview with Dr. Joe Blaes, www.dentaleconomics.com. February 1, 2000.

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• I really like to discover a new culture, a new country, a new rhythm of living. I really, really like that. I think that's the most enriching thing, for my nature, because I like the psychology of people.

  Audrey Tautou

  Country, Thinking, People

  "Profile and Interview: Audrey Tautou". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. 2003.

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• Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.

  William E. Burrows

  Believe, Technology, Agency

  William E. Burrows (2010). “This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age”, p.560, Modern Library

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• I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out of my life wasn't really a priority. But the accident allowed me to apply myself at school. I got great grades. Eventually I got very excited about anthropology and about social sciences and psychology, and I was able to push my photography even further and eventually discovered film and film schools.

  George Lucas

  Photography, School, Ideas

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• I didn't always know I wanted to do music, I got more into music in high school. I always sort of liked the idea of psychology so I thought of being a therapist or someone who helps other people.

  Alex Gaskarth

  School, Helping Others, Ideas

  Source: rocknycliveandrecorded.com

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• My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.

  Ray Bradbury

  Names, Giving, Trying

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.131, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

  William James

  Teacher, Art, Real

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.14, Nuvision Pubns

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• Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

  William James

  Art, Teaching, Art And Science

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.14, Nuvision Pubns

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• You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.

  William James

  Art, Mistake, Teaching

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.14, Nuvision Pubns

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• The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.

  William James

  Art, Mistake, Teaching

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.

  William James

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  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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• In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.

  William James

  Art, Teaching, Curiosity

  William James (1912). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”

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