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Psychology Quotes
"Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry."
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"The more emotional you are in a situation, the more memories you'll have of that situation in the long run."
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"Instead of letting our emotions run amok, we can use our minds as tools to build or create realities that serve us better."
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"No two human beings are alike; it's a question of identity. And what is identity? The cognitive system arisin' from the aggregate memories of that individual's past experiences. The layman's word for this is the mind. Not two human beings have the same mind. At the same time, human beings have almost no grasp of their own cognitive systems. I don't, you don't, nobody does. All we know-or think we know-is but a fraction of the whole cake. A mere tip of the icing."
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"Your brain with all its parts, exists to keep you safe, but your mind, with all your memories and intuition, exists to help you soar."
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"The spirit of pessimism inside of her was purely organic."
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"The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself."
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"For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire."
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"Never get involved with people who are likely to envy you at the end of the day. People like that will actually lurk in the bushes, play your mind, and pounce on you when you are at our most vulnerable state. Envy is the root of all evil, in all men and women, everywhere. They're not going to leave your side, but for reasons that you wouldn't like!"
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"There's the good girl leading a charmed life who secretly covets to be the rare and elusive femme fatale and the femme fatale who yearns to be good and then there is their nemesis - men who dream and desire both."
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"People don't believe what you tell them.They rarely believe what you show them.They often believe what their friends tell them.They always believe what they tell themselves."
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"Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image."
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"Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain."
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"You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself."
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"Variability has potential to create confusion."
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"I am not absent-minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
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"We hurt ourselves much more than anyone can hurt us just by believing the stupid thoughts we get sometimes."
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"For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said."
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"Until now psychologists only factored in emotional and physical gratification while studying subjects, but believe me I'm coining a new term: VIRTUAL GRATIFICATION, which will become a new form of craving in near future. Watch On!"
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"Together with the patient, a therapist looks at the nature of the pain. Often, the therapist can uncover causes of suffering that stem from the way the patient looks at things, the beliefs he holds about himself, his culture, and the world. The therapist examines these viewpoints and beliefs with the patient, and together they help free him from the kind of prison he has been in. But the patient's efforts are crucial. A teacher has to give birth to the teacher within his student, and a psychotherapist has to give birth to the psychotherapist within his patient. The patient's "internal psychotherapist can then work full-time in a very effective way."
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"Pride helps us, and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts-not to hurt others."
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"People reject what they do not understand because it makes them feel small. They would rather believe in some other reality, even if it is only an illusion, so long as it makes them feel bigger."
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"A staggering amount of people blame their lives for their miseries, but little do they know that one's repeated interpretations of one's life create one's constant feelings."
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"It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does."
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"No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology."
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"The greatest enemy to fear is truth."
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"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it."
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"The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis."
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"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."
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"We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are."
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"There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography."
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"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."
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"Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation."
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"You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun."
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"People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt... They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear."
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"Cultivate confidence, and eradicate the need to control."
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"Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph."
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"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings."
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"Transition and change - guaranteed to cause anxiety. That anxiety shows itself in physical and behavioral ways, but also with thoughts (sometimes really crazy ones). This is the (primitive/automatic) brain's way of keeping us safe from the danger of change. We end up getting so involved with the feeling and thoughts of anxiety, we get distracted from the "danger". If we trust the anxiety then our primitive brain has succeeded in "protecting" us from the danger. I suggest not believing, trusting, or taking direction from the anxiety and continue your pursuits forward. Then, you will be amazed at your ability to attract and reveal your true capabilities, your light, your magic."
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"He just wanted to see what a girl who was crazy enough to kill herself looked like."
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"People don't act the way they do because of me. They just act out their own projection of reality, and so do I."
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"Everything has taken on a strange, distant quality - the sounds of running and shouting outside get warped and weird like they're being filtered through water, and Alex looks miles away. I start to think I might be dreaming, or about to pass."
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"It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right."
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"The longer you blame the mirror, the longer you throw away the power to change what it is reflecting."
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"The accumulation of beliefs, knowledge and experiences contribute to our level of success and progress in life, however they also introduce the reality that we are all prejudiced. If not well managed, our personal prejudices can become the mental prison we lock ourselves inside or we use to shut others out. You need to deal with this likely impediment to a success-driven lifestyle."
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"To know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits."
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"The "Boxes are the walls in your mind."
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"Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary."
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"I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites."
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"Behaviours and habits are therefore the end result of the entire value chain and cannot be changed in a sustainable manner by scratching the surface - you have to dig deeper. This is why jail time, threats and sanctions without appropriate rehabilitation programs will not change a person unless they embark on a personal journey/program to initiate the process of change from the inner core " how the programs in their brain are wired to influence their beliefs."
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