Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“I am a non-accredited, overly logical psychologist, therapist, mechanic, diplomat, businessman, and Teacher working in an industry that is still defining itself… — Ka Wai Cheung Copy Share Image
We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk,… — Jurgen Klinsmann Copy Share Image
I’m not a scholar or a psychologist, so I don’t really think about why. But I do think about what it means… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
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… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Right now, America doesn't ask us to do anything besides pay taxes. We don't even have to vote. But as psychologists will… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“Of course, I should have known the kids would pop out in the atmosphere of Roberta's office. That's what they do when… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning… — Israel Albert Horowitz Copy Share Image
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."Mark McCormack, Author and sports entrepreneur"Psychologists tell us that money is… — John Baldoni Copy Share Image
I am always impressed by the fact that even the tiniest amount of being listened to, the barest suggestion of the possibility… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In fact, on one occasion, a rather pedantic experimental psychologist was telling him about a long, complicated experiment he had done, incorporating… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
I exercise regularly. I eat moderate amounts of healthy food. I make sure to get plenty of rest. I see my doctor… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon.… — Claude Chabrol Copy Share Image
A group of psychologists say they have discovered twenty-three different body language indicators that show whether or not a person is lying.… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A good doctor, and in a special sense the psychologist, makes it quite deliberately, slightly harder for the patient to recover too… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says...' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, "He and Randy came to my… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Golf is no longer a game of hitting the ball, finding it, and hitting it again. There is wind to be measured,… — Doug Ferguson Copy Share Image
People are, by and large, quite poor at judging correct absolute values but are astute about determining relative values. Psychologists call this… — Michael Mauboussin Copy Share Image
For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Wise, compassionate and accessible, David Benner's The Gift of Being Yourself is truly a gift to the dedicated seeker. The author draws… — Margaret Guenther Copy Share Image
I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that… — Adrian Peterson Copy Share Image
I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of… — I. King Jordan Copy Share Image
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the… — Kurt Busch Copy Share Image
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
As Harvard developmental psychologist Robert Kegan, who has studied Bridgewater, says, in most work places everyone is working two jobs. The first… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
There's something artistic about skating. A psychologist could tell you exactly why that is, but I think there's something much more expressive… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
A friend, who's a psychologist, told me about a patient once: a woman who was well educated, had a good job, a… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image