Psychogenic Quotes

#1. Sometimes the news so shocks the mind that the brain suffers an electrical short. This phenomenon is known as a "psychogenic" syndrome, a severe version of the swoon some experience after hearing bad news.

Paul Kalanithi

#2. A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.

Charles Jencks

#3. No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.

E. O. Wilson

#4. As long as you can find a place to develop as an all-round player, then you're doing great.

Peter Uihlein

#5. I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

Helen Garner

#6. It occurred to him now that people are defined much more by their association with death than by what they do in life.

Karan Mahajan

#7. Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.

Janet Street-Porter

#8. I've always had my ear peeled for interesting music. As a student, I regularly spent time hunting for interesting repertoire, looking through music bins, buying stacks and stacks of CDs, and discovering rarely played pieces by composers.

Anne Akiko Meyers

#9. You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.

Robert Fulghum

#10. Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail.

Elsa Barker

#11. A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

Charles Spurgeon

#12. Passion Is the Currency of Happiness

Jesse Tevelow

#13. Understanding a person's hunger and responding to it is one of the most potent tools you'll ever discover for getting through to anyone you meet in business or your personal life.

Mark Goulston