Best Psychologist Quotes

#1. Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel like actively shifting anything in your life, there is nothing that person can do to change you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#2. Other classic experiments conducted by social psychologist Solomon Asch show how adults readily adopt the opinion of others in simple tasks, such as matching a line to one of a set of other lines

Anonymous

#3. A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.

Jay Leno

#4. Accessing a "professional listener" such as a psychologist or counselor can be useful if the loved one wants to use this form of support.

Timothy Carey

#5. I do sort of believe that in life all manifestations of evil usually come from an emotional place. They come from some kind of emotional heartbreak or some psychological damage. I'm not a psychologist and that's probably for the best but I am interested in it.

Tom Hiddleston

#6. I went to a psychologist friend and said if 500 people claimed to see Jesus after he died, it was just a hallucination. He said hallucinations are an individual event. If 500 people have the same hallucination, that's a bigger miracle than the resurrection.

Lee Strobel

#7. Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...

Asa Don Brown

#8. To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.

Alexei Sayle

#10. I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.

Isabel Allende

#11. The way that people feel changes everything. Feelings are forces. They cause us to time travel. And to leave ourselves, to leave our bodies. I would be that kind of psychologist who says, 'You're absolutely right - there are monsters under the bed.'

Helen Oyeyemi

#12. Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable.

Hilary Kornblith

#13. Though you work like mad to keep parts of you undiscovered, it is horrible to imagine that you will be completely successful. As the psychologist D.W. Winnicott wrote, It is a joy to be hidden, but a disaster not to be found.

Jennifer Michael Hecht

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Malcolm Gladwell

#15. The psychologist Mark Schaller has shown that disgust is part of what he calls the "behavioral immune system" - a set of cognitive modules that are triggered by signs of infection or disease in other people and that make you want to get away from those people.40

Jonathan Haidt

#16. As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'

Tom Vanderbilt

#17. I might have been a psychologist. It interests me.

Richie Sambora

#18. If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.

Karl Kraus

#19. Jimmy Demaret and I had the best sports psychologist in the world. His name was Jack Daniels and he was waiting for us after every round.

Jack Burke Jr.

#20. I grew up thinking the best job in the world would be a Jedi and being a psychologist is the closest thing I could get, so I wanted to be a Jedi and I don't want to be a Sith, so that is what keeps me on the straight and narrow.

John Amaechi

#21. Being a developmental psychologist didn't make me any better at dealing with my own children, no. I muddled through, and, believe me, fretted and worried with the best of them.

Alison Gopnik

#22. We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

Jurgen Klinsmann

#23. The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic.

Bob Newhart

#24. Next up is the fat family psychologist who makes his guests cry (he calls this "breaking through the wall of denial"), and invites them to leave if any of them dare question his methods. Hodges thinks the fat family psychologist might have learned those methods from old KGB training videos.

Stephen King

#25. The psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced six-cent-mihaly) has done

Daniel Kahneman

#26. If I wasn't a singer, I think I'd be studying to be a psychologist.

Rihanna

#27. As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores.

Steven Pinker

#28. Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

David James

#30. A German psychologist says that women talk more than men because they have a bigger vocabulary. But, it evens out because men only listen half the time.

Jay Leno

#31. I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

I. King Jordan

#32. All the world's parenting advice can be distilled to two simple rules: pay attention to what your children are fascinated by, and praise them for their effort. [Paraphrasing Carol Dweck, a psychologist who studies motivation]

Daniel Coyle

#33. The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

John B. Watson

#34. I appreciate the confidence, Your Imperial Psychologist, but we're way beyond that. Cress if over me and ... it's for the best.

Marissa Meyer

#35. My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.

Marvin Sapp

#36. The most significant factor in an individual's ability to remain in good health may be a sense of control over the events of life, one psychologist has remarked.

Alfie Kohn

#37. If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.

Hansie Cronje

#38. I was trying to be a clinical psychologist for years. But I kept getting stuck in comedy.

Amy Hoggart

#39. As the psychologist Carol Gilligan has written, "Women's sense of integrity seems to be entwined with an ethic of care, so that to see themselves as women is to see themselves in a relationship of connection.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#40. Though as a psychologist I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I admit to having been repeatedly flabbergasted by the insouciance, and sometimes relish, with which our ancestors carried out and witnessed unspeakable cruelties.

Steven Pinker

#41. I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist.

Alan Greenspan

#42. I need to give up the OPTION of ever having what I want

Jim Maclaine

#43. You don't need to be a psychologist to manage change, but you need to understand psychological emotions behind changes.

Pearl Zhu

#44. I want to be a psychologist.

Thalia