Psychology Quotes - Page 16

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.

Le mot 'psychologie'est un de ceux qu'aucun auteur d'aujourd'hui ne peut entendre prononcer a' son sujet sans baisser les yeux et rougir. The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.

Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.

It is very important to learn to weigh up objectively (or assess intuitively) the totality of the competitive and psychological factors.

Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.

He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

Psychotherapy can help some people, especially people who are neurotic, who are always making problems for themselves. We are like a rider on an elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll go where we want, but if he has other desires, he'll go where he wants. They need to get a better relationship between the rider and the elephant. In part, you get it just from watching yourself stumble around in life, make mistakes, then read a little psychology and stop blaming yourself. Realize that I am flawed. I am complicated. I am divided, and I'm doing the best I can.

Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a serious study of how story affects the human mind. Results repeatedly show that our attitudes, fears, hopes, and values are strongly influenced by story. In fact, fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than writing that is specifically designed to persuade through argument and evidence.

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French cooking does not use seaweed or raw fish, so neoclassical models do not make assumptions derived from psychology, anthropology, or sociology. I disagree with any rules that limit the nature of the ingredients in economic models.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

Stand-up comedy is a science. Every comedian is a psychology major, naturally.

Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as I can, it's my way of understanding the world around me and staying constantly engaged with it, the more carefully and patiently I look at what interests me in the world the more faithfully and honestly I can document it. It is only through intense, subtly nuanced observation that we develop an understanding of the psychology of the subject.

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats

The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine