Psychology Quotes - Page 21

I like newspaper stories that are incomplete, that give me room to imagine the rest. It's no good to me reading about something that's all neatly solved and wrapped up. That's why so many of my stories revolve around human psychology, around why someone commits a certain crime, or series of crimes. I don't profess to know the answers but I like to explore the possibilities.

I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

It's like you came to a controversy and a ball game breaks out.

Playing for Billy Martin is like being married to him. Right now, we're all sleeping on the couch.

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

Earl gave me his version of what happened and asked me not to suspend the umpires.

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

We set the table, but no one ate.

Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there.

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?

The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous variety and richness of overt human conduct, witness to the radical difference between the inside and the outside of the human body.

I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.

Play him, fine him, and play him again.

My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga.

Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.

A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction. I have to evacuate all psychology, to be less a protagonist and more a presence.

I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental' moral philosophy and moral psychology. As a result, we understand better why moral formulas are experienced as ineluctable commands, even if there is no commander and even if the notion of an inescapable obligation is just superstition. So moral philosophy has made huge progress.