Psychology Quotes - Page 9

The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself.

All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.

The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance; all these are elemental. Batting is rather a study in psychology, a sizing up of a pitcher and catcher and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.

I think investment psychology is by far the more important element, followed by risk control, with the least important consideration being the question of where you buy and sell.

If I want to know how we learn and remember and represent the world, I will go to psychology and neuroscience. If I want to know where values come from, I will go to evolutionary biology and neuroscience and psychology, just as Aristotle and Hume would have, were they alive.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

Realise that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them.

The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2) the Christianity of accommodation to modernism, egalitarianism, niceness, naturalism, pop psychology, secular humanism, relativism, subjectivism, individualism, "Enlightenment" rationalism or postmodern irrationalism. New converts to the first Christianity are constantly amazed and scandalized by finding many of their clergy to be in love with the second and in fear of the first.

Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position.

Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable. We had behaviorism, Freudian psychology, all of these theories that you learn in psychology. Totally untestable. Now, we can test it, because physics allows us to calculate energy flows in the brain.

Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.

Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

I like stories with lots of psychology.

The only way to create change in anyone`s psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions - or inaction.

Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.