Psychological Quotes · Page 18

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of…

— George Santayana

Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems…

— Chris Prentiss

“In order to survive her tumultuous childhood, Mary created another Fat Mary, a companion and consoler, who took away her hurts, fears,…

— Maria Nhambu

The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To…

— Donald Knuth

Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters. That to me…

— Neal Stephenson

All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're…

— Philip Sington

The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so,…

— Anonymous

The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical…

— Tullian Tchividjian

If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong…

— Ayn Rand

Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical,…

— Michael Lerner

the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it,…

— David Foster Wallace

I think everyone should read The Girl on The Train, especially if they loved Gone Girl. It's about Rachel, a girl who…

— Kyle

Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day.…

— Marcus Buckingham

I am very concerned about the environment and psychological health of this beautiful planet.

— Cornel Wilde

For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and…

— James Marsh

I have searched everywhere to find an answer to my question, 'Is there enlightenment?' but have never questioned the search itself. Because…

— U.G. Krishnamurti

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want…

— Noam Chomsky

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The 'Brain Opera' is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in…

— Tod Machover

“How many faces a woman has?;Supreme Being divided by zero.”

— Waqas Bin Ehsan

I really enjoyed my degree, for me it was the best course you can do. To be able to study the brain…

— Freddie Stroma

Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

After I made my tour in the Middle, into the Middle-East and Africa and visited Mecca and other places, I think that…

— Malcolm X

What makes Jessica Jones series so unique is that it really is an allegory for many different types of abuse, whether it…

— Rachael Taylor

Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive…

— Jean Shinoda Bolen