Psychological Quotes - Page 6

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.

I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

I don't watch things like Jeepers Creepers or Final Destination 53 ½. I really like more of the psychological thrillers.

There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.

Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.

Donald Trump thinks all press is good press. And I think he believes that he's putting everybody on a psychological disadvantage.

You should not take the content of your intuitive response as evidence until you have submitted your psychological reaction to what I call cognitive psychotherapy. You should do what you can to learn as much as possible about the origin of your reaction.

Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.

This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself!

We are all born; some remain so.

People with what we call mental illness can indeed serve well, and people who have no discernible mental illness - and that may be true of Trump - may not be able to serve, may be quite unfit. So it isn't always the question of a psychiatric diagnosis. It's really a question of what psychological and other traits render one unfit or dangerous.

Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man.

What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.

The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only after your own good, not the good of others and that's extremely harmful.

Singing is something you can do for a lifetime, and studies prove it is good for mental, physical, social and psychological health.

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

There's no psychological barrier anymore that stops a young person or an older person from taking heroin.

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if youve truly lived through it.

I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.