Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.
Psychology Quotes (230 Quotes)
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.
I am undecided on my major, but I'm leaning toward psychology, ... I plan on graduating, even if the NBA comes calling. I am going to graduate.
Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure
They view the gasoline thing as temporary, and that's important because it didn't change their overall pace of spending. And that's a different kind of psychology. If it was a permanent increase in gasoline prices, then you would have expected consumers to make a more permanent adjustment downward in their spending and saving rate.
The whole closed-end market is based on psychology, ... There's still a lot of hope among the investors who don't want to sell.
The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
The volatility measures are falling with this snapback and there is a short-term shift in psychology -- there's a lot of bargain-hunting going on out there.
Psychology does not know what good and evil are in themselves it knows them only as judgments about relationships.
Some were greatly offended, some were terribly amused, but mostly they were shocked that he did it knowing we're coming up, ... How do you tell someone, especially a psychologist, who should know better, that he's making people uncomfortable
To an extent, we're all just groping in the dark to make sense of all the news, all the stories, all the data. What are the ripple effects What will the costs be on a cost front, a delivery front and a psychology front
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a ma
Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
There are only a few things like music, entertainment, sports, politics that can stir emotions. It's a psychology. And I think the young fans just want to invest in something that has changed them somehow or in some way. At that age things are very exciting. And if there's something that helps them stay positive, they're going to want to invest their time and energy in whatever it is that guides that emotion. In this case, it's expressed in signs and t-shirts and a lot of enthusiasm.
Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
People who are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful and feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Some psychologists call it a conflict between ego-orientation, or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation... but in all cases, what counts is whether attention is turned away from the task at hand and focused on the self and its future rewards, or whether it is instead trained on the task itself. The latter attitude seems the more fruitful.
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.
Some of the good earnings reports and good guidance are reversing market psychology. In general, we're probably heading for a good earnings season.
Psychologists say and studies show that if you give them the bad news first, that they're HIV positive, they won't hear anything you're saying after that. If you want to tell them about services they can use for help, then you have to make sure you give them all the positive counseling beforehand.
I think to some extent the opportunity to go and take the place of an iconic figure of rock and roll, well, what's the psychology of not wanting to do that You'll see a kid play air guitar in a garage. It's the same thing. It's easy for these people to get teased, and some behave in ways that they invite it. But I don't think it's intrinsically sick or strange. What is colonial Williamsburg but people in historical drag
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving it.
I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.
What works best as a matter of psychology -- shouting or soft speaking with some leverage Well I don't know -- my habit is not to shout.
We've been focused on moving the ball in practice and try to get shots because most of the teams we play make us guard for 25 to 30 seconds. They get us tired, so it's reverse psychology. We want to do the same thing to them.