Pop Psychology Quotes

#1. To discover you purpose in life you must turn to God's Word, not the world's wisdom. You must build your life on eternal truths, not pop psychology, success-motivation, or inspirational stories.

Rick Warren

#2. Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.

Paul Gibbons

#3. Well, I'm not sure what pop psychology is, but I don't like it.

Phil McGraw

#4. Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

Brad Holland

#5. Malcolm Gladwell puts the "pop" in pop psychology, and although revered in lay circles, is roundly dismissed by experts - even by the researchers he makes famous.

Paul Gibbons

#6. Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence.

Matt Walsh

#7. We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.

Kevin DeYoung

#8. Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.

Brennan Manning

#9. We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today.

Paul Gibbons

#10. The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage.

Athol Fugard

#11. The psychological theories that inform day-to-day business practices are comprised mostly of folk-psychology, fads, and myths.

Paul Gibbons

#12. This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and categorical.

Marcel Danesi

#13. Accident is simply unforeseen order.

Novalis

#14. If you just did what you wanted to do, and didn't care what anyone thought, you'd be Autistic.

Seamus McDuff

#15. The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Alexander Alekhine

#16. Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual

David Shenk

#17. Even then I would go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of your dear wan face, at the mere sound of your raucous young voice

Vladimir Nabokov

#18. Don't cling so tenaciously to ties of the flesh; save your constancy and ardour for an adequate cause; forbear to waste them on trite transient objects.

Charlotte Bronte

#19. I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

Julia Sweeney

#20. I think we should have a day off for Father's Day. Dads work very hard. And to be fair, a day off for Mums too, as they work hard. And more bank holidays. They rock.

Peter Andre