Quotes About Psychological

#1. Forgiveness is more than words ... it is a state of being, and if forgiveness is to be anything more than a superficial offering, then, psychological, emotional, and spiritual ground must be cleared in order that the act of forgiveness may be properly rooted, and, therefore, lasting.

Bill Whitehouse

#2. Directing is much more psychological-it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between two and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

Julie Taymor

#3. I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections of what the culture that tells them thinks about various things: men, women, aging, dying - the most basic aspects of being human.

Helen Oyeyemi

#4. Psychological complexity, character development, the killer line to end a scene, villains blotched with virtue, heroic characters speckled with villainy, foreshadow and backflash, artful misdirection.

David Mitchell

#5. There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time ... A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.

Marjorie Holmes

#6. All psychological suffering (or happiness, taken in its usual sense) is a matter of comparison.

Robert A. Johnson

#7. From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

Soseki Natsume

#8. I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

Sophia Bush

#9. For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and would be completely unemployable in any other job - so it's great to be able to channel your psychological anomalies into something productive and creative.

James Marsh

#10. In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that.

Jock Sturges

#11. My work comes out of a deep psychological place, so it's not like I'm Object Man at home. Theoretically, I'm not against objects, but, personally, I'm not comfortable attaching myself to them - I don't seek them out. What you can say about my home is that it's not very ambitious.

Tino Sehgal

#12. Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

Robert Byrd

#13. Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an increased likelihood of cancer, as well as skeletal changes that could prevent them from attaining their full adult height.

Jeffrey Kluger

#14. I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.

Dana Hussein

#15. Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.

Mark McKinnon

#16. To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

Anne Michaels

#17. Keep in mind that in the presence of a real itch, the scratches tend to appear more deliberate whereas scratching done to relieve psychological tension tends to be brief and light. Tension

Jeffrey Powell

#18. [after guard dogs frozen mid-attack] 'How long are the dogs going to stay hanging there like that?' ask Yulia. 'I want to make friends with them. Otherwise, i'll be left with a latent psychological complex that's bound to affect my personality and sexual preferences.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#19. Unconscious people are spiritually stunted, effectively encasing their unique brilliance in a psychological tumor.

Bryant McGill

#20. When the material, psychological and spiritual dimensions are brought into balance, life becomes whole, and this union brings feelings of comfort and security.

Deepak Chopra

#21. Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

Tami Hoag

#22. I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.

Gero Miesenbock

#23. I still considered the world's religions to be mere intellectual ruins, maintained at enormous economic and social cost, but I now understood that important psychological truths could be found in the rubble.

Sam Harris

#24. Rogers believed that we have within ourselves enormous potential for self-understanding and for altering our self-concept and for our behaviour. He believed that this potential can be tapped if a climate of facilitative psychological attitudes can be provided, which person-centred therapy aims to do

Jacqui Stedmon

#25. I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#26. New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.

Maureen Johnson

#27. The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress

Irving Janis

#28. The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make ... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

Larry Clark

#29. We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare
is a struggle for winning people's minds.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#30. We only gain merit and psychological development by accepting ourselves as we are and by being serious enough to live the lives we are entrusted with. Our sins and errors and mistakes are necessary to us, otherwise we are deprived of the most precious incentives to development.

C. G. Jung

#31. Throughout the ages, effective results in war have rarely been attained unless the
approach has had such indirectness as to ensure the opponent's unreadyness to meet it.
The indirectness has usually been physical, and always psychological.

Liddell Hart

#32. It might be a little bit crazy, even. Like, for real crazy. Not just 'oh isn't that charming and endearing' crazy but 'wow that might be a deep-seated psychological issue' crazy.

Lauren Barnholdt

#33. Allopathic doctors used to laugh condescendingly at those who posited that psychological, emotional and spiritual factors were important contributors to the sickness as well as healing of the body.

Marianne Williamson

#34. I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people.

Alistair Cross

#35. Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don't get it from a specific religious doctrine, you'll get it from the kind of films I like to make. A film like The Terminator is consciously meant to give a sense of empowerment to the individual.

James Cameron

#36. Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.

Richard Diebenkorn

#37. It wasn't personal - more of a "been there, done that, got my lifetime supply of psychological trauma" kind of thing.

Joanna Wylde

#38. Though it may afford momentary psychological relief, it is an illusion which physiologically, surely, must not be without danger.

Viktor E. Frankl

#39. The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.

Tim Jackson

#40. True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.

Malcolm X

#41. Prison is a process, a succession of imprisonments. At first it operates only on a physical level, restricting your movement. Later, it extends to the psychological plane, encompassing your very perception. You come to exclude all thoughts, all visions of the free world.

Norman Parker

#42. We always talk about how you have to build a brand from the inside out, not the outside in. Brands are not wrappers. Brands are based on the values of the founders, and then they spread to the people who work for the company, and then that psychological contract is spread to the customer.

Dan Levitan

#43. Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#44. There are dimensions to me that are not just the thinking person, but the person who is much richer, the person who has other emotional experiences, psychological experiences, these experiences also enrich me.

George Coyne

#45. For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up - is that I just love to hide in other characters. I don't like to get up in front of people and talk as Kathy Baker. But as soon as you say 'action,' I'm lost in that character.

Kathy Baker

#46. Breaking away from old psychological memes requires a Herculean effort in many cases. In essence, we are outgrowing a worldview while maintaining a relation-ship of sorts. Transcending an ideology can feel like going through a divorce and having to stay friends because of the kids.

Gudjon Bergmann

#47. Like physical pain, our psychological pain is an indication of something out of equilibrium, some limitation that has been exceeded. And like our physical pain, our psychological pain is not necessarily always bad or even undesirable.

Mark Manson

#48. Caring burns a lot of fuel - psychological and physical, too, if any lifting is involved. The energy tank is soon emptied, and the toll caring takes is well documented. It's called carer burn-out.

Laurie Graham

#49. Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

David Einhorn

#50. A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

Dieter Rams

#51. Religions centered on the worship of a male God create "moods" and "motivations" that keep women in a state of psychological dependence on men and male authority, while at the same legitimating the political and social authority of fathers and sons in the institutions of society.

Carol P. Christ

#52. The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation.

Philippe Perrin

#53. Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.

Joyce Carol Oates

#54. I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

Sara Zarr

#55. You can wear your hair long or wear a beard because you want to show that you are interested in thought, in psychological endeavors rather than appearance.

Emilio Pucci

#56. It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

Albert Einstein

#57. I am convinced if the church went back to the main task of proclaiming the Gospel it would see people being converted to Christ, and it would have a far greater impact on the social, moral, and psychological needs of people than anything else it could possibly do.

Billy Graham

#58. The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?

Leo Tolstoy

#59. Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

Guy Finley

#60. When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.

Kangana Ranaut

#61. Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.

Albert Einstein

#62. (Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth

Jacques Ellul

#63. The principle of positive thinking is simplicity itself. Picture an outcome, dwell on it in your thoughts and feelings, and unseen agencies - whether metaphysical or psychological - will supposedly come to your aid. Seen in this way, the mind is a causative force.

Mitch Horowitz

#64. Partner psychological abuse encompasses nonaccidental verbal or symbolic acts by one partner that result, or have reasonable potential to result, in significant harm to the other partner.

Donald W. Black

#65. A man who lives apart, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.

John Le Carre

#66. Thank you, Dr. Phil, for that fine psychological assessment," I snapped and motioned my chin to Disco. "Why don't you and Oprah here go take a long walk off a short plank and do the world a favor?

J.A. Saare

#67. Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.

David Gemmell

#68. Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it.

Nir Eyal

#69. I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

Brandon Sanderson

#70. While there have been great technological advances in the study of the brain, yielding enormous amounts of data on its physical and psychological characteristics, the old problem of relating mind to brain in a reasonable fashion remains unaccomplished.

Michael Gazzaniga

#71. All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever be able to play again ... and even if I did recover physically, the psychological scars of so traumatic an injury might never heal.

Wilt Chamberlain

#72. While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#73. Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#74. What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation.

Romano Guardini

#75. A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

Steve Almond

#76. I was moving among two groups ... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that ... one might have crossed the ocean.

C.P. Snow

#77. Often, psychological laziness will have you switch your life over to autopilot and fall asleep at the wheel rather than stay awake to what will fulfill your heart's deepest desires and your soul's purpose.

Debbie Ford

#78. I thought of the similarities of complaints
always selfishness, always blindness
and the old psychological truth that what we complain of in others, others will complain of in us.

Alain De Botton

#79. Marital psychological abuse suffered by a parent can never be understood by disrespectful, ungrateful, growing, biased, brainwashed children.

Angelica Hopes

#80. Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit, a small island in which I can stand and say, 'I'm going to sit this one out.'

Keith Olbermann

#81. We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

Robert M. Sapolsky

#82. I have a psychological feeling about things - and if I have something that I need to accomplish and I accomplish it, I let down after that, and that happened to me in golf.

Arnold Palmer

#83. Psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

Jean Baker Miller

#84. Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Terri Apter

#85. The costs of engaging in the black market of religion in China are very high. Once found by the authorities, leaders and believers may suffer psychological abuse, physical torture, monetary fines,

Anonymous

#86. Despite what many modern educators would say, this is not a psychological disturbance brought on by violent television or chemical imbalance. Aggression is part of the masculine design; we are hardwired for it.

John Eldredge

#87. Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.

Ehud Olmert

#88. Richard Grunberger points out in The Twelve-Year Reich, the Jew served a necessary psychological function. "Just as primitive man's concept of God supposed the existence of the Devil, so the German's progressive self-deification during the Third Reich depended upon the demonization of the Jew.

Leonard Gross

#89. When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

Jane Fonda

#90. But the prisoner who had passed into the second stage of his psychological reactions did not avert his eyes any more. By then his feelings were blunted, and he watched unmoved.

Viktor E. Frankl

#91. I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

Barbara Ess

#92. Their anger is not experienced as a psychological reality but is seen through an ideology that distorts black women's lived experiences.

Melissa V. Harris-Perry

#93. There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

Amy Chua

#94. Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.

Tom Vanderbilt

#95. You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic.

Christoph Waltz

#96. DSM definitions do not include personal and contextual factors such as whether the depressive symptoms are an understandable response to loss, a terrible life situation, psychological conflict or personality factors.

Allen Frances

#97. All buildings have a psychological as well as a purely visual effect on the landscape.

Elisabeth Beazley

#98. You marry at the level of your own psychological health.

Sonia Friedman

#99. So, anyway, I think that cultivating positive mental states like kindness and compassion definitely leads to better psychological health and happiness.

Dalai Lama XIV

#100. In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors.

Anurag Kashyap