Quotes About Reverse Psychology

#1. Make today a gift to your future self.

Anonymous

#2. Everything's over, I thought. I felt rested, I'm home, I have lots to do. When I sat up in bed, though, all I did was start to cry like a fool, for no apparent reason.

Roberto Bolano

#3. We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). WE can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail-period!

Carl T. Rowan

#4. Skylar todl you to come here?" I asked dumbly.
"No," Bethany said. "Skylar told me not to come here. Same dif.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#5. t is your own barrier, you set it, and only you can remove it. Remember that. So, do you want to try again or permanently give up?

Nabil N. Jamal

#6. I pay my own bills. I feel my own pain.

Romario

#7. Experimental studies consistently point out that the popular remedy for anger, ventilation, is really worse than useless. In fact, the reverse seems to be true: expressing anger tends to make you even angrier and solidifies an angry attitude.

Judith McKay

#8. Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.

Bobby Flay

#9. A man walks into a library and says, 'I hope you don't have a book on reverse psychology.

Henny Youngman

#10. And maybe no better. There is no government in Mexico. Hell, there's no God in Mexico. Never will be. We are dealing with a people manifestly incapable of governing themselves. And do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

Cormac McCarthy

#11. A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.

Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

#12. In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life.

Mindy Kaling

#13. Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think the opposite of what you believe, and that tricks them into doing something stupid. Works like a charm.

Michael Scott

#14. I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.

L.A. Paul

#15. One semester, I was busted for reverse plagiarism, which basically meant I was too lazy to research a paper for my psychology class so cited false references to support my own theories on deviant behavior.

Jennifer Coburn

#16. It doesn't matter how precious a jewel is,
it will never shine brighter than a
person that is a diamond within.

Keila Doyle

#17. The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of re-education and re-generation that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

Chinua Achebe

#18. I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

River Phoenix

#19. I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.

Holly Marie Combs

#20. Social media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism, one-to-many, to a many-to-many model, rooted in conversations between authors, people and peers.

Brian Solis