Psychology Quotes - Page 4

Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms and unconscious reactions. But it has told us nothing about the reflexes that have built cathedrals, railroads, and fortresses, the instincts that have produced philosophies, poems, and legal systems, the automatisms that have resulted in the growth and decline of empires, the unconscious reactions that are splitting atoms.

Blame is the cowards way out.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology.

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not need to be actually gathered together in a public meeting or in a street riot, to be subject to the influences of mass psychology. Because man is by nature gregarious he feels himself to be member of a herd, even when he is alone in his room with the curtains drawn.

Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets.

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and psychology. He's redefining and reforming the role of the philosopher.

Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being

I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style.

The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

There is no such thing as a successful defense.

Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too much. Thus a slight disadvantage is very frequently seen to convert into a good, solid advantage.

I like to make them squirm.