Psychology Quotes - Page 11

psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psychology, and that the rest should be left to other professions.

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.

We know, from ordinary life, that we are not able to direct our attention perfectly steadily and uniformly to one and the same object... At times the attention turns towards the object most intensely, and at times the energy flags.

Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing.

If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

You don't have to be the best at something. You just have to be the most determined.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

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.

You are not happy because you're healthy, you are healthy because you're happy

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

The fields of clinical psychology and psychiatry exist specifically to help the emotionally unstable become more stable and lead happier, healthier lives. Unlike in the eras of Vincent Van Gogh and Abraham Lincoln, there is now professional help available for those who suffer from emotional illness. Treatment may require therapy or even medication, but hope is now available every single day in practically every city in the civilized world.

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.

You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.