Psychological Quotes · Page 15

This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.

— Reks

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy.

— Albert Bandura

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

— David Icke

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

— John Paul Caponigro

Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

— Garry Kasparov

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

— Joni Mitchell

Actually I don't mind the gym when I get there, but I hate the psychological battle I have to go through to…

— Ben Miller

“George lay on his bed, wide awake despite the early hour, imagining over and over Jeffrey’s demise. He didn’t feel guilty. Jeffrey…

— Matt Francis

I can't see any hope but a second front. The psychological effect would be great, even if they could not wade all…

— Bess Truman

Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of…

— Alfie Kohn

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

“Rien dove into her own extinguished eyes, surrounded by two wrinkle stripes , engraved to serve as defense moats, should anyone plot…

— Sivan P.L

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

I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't…

— Wayne Knight

I am continually amazed by the credence given to religious claims in the intellectual community; and, as a human being, i am…

— George H. Smith

A woman by her very nature is maternal -- for every woman, whether ... married or unmarried, is called upon to be…

— Alice von Hildebrand

In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings…

— Jasper Johns

It hit me that an Apache resistance would be a wonderful, you know, it would be a wonderful metaphor for Jewish-American soldiers…

— Quentin Tarantino

Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear…

— Michael Robotham

Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort…

— Edith Schaeffer

The real thing is that you are suffering from your expectations. When they are not fulfilled - and they are never going…

— Rajneesh

“Some masks are worn to hide weakness. Gabriel had worn that kind for years— a lowered gaze, a tired back, a silence…

— Valon G

I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective…

— Ivan Pavlov

Learning to read and write makes little sense if you don't understand what you're reading and writing about. While we may have…

— David Elkind

Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective…

— Jesse Bering

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

“My body Healed quickly. But the wound to my psyche was deep. Wide. First aid, too little, too late, left me hemorrhaging…

— Ellen Hopkins

We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type.

— Maia Szalavitz

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

— Erik Erikson

psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

— Jean Baker Miller

It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.

— Alexander McQueen

“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.

— James Rachels

“The suit gave him youth, strength, and hunger. It never promised he would remain himself.”

— Valon G

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

— Andrew Pyper

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

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

— Anne Michaels

Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.

— Albert Bandura

A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.

— Lorrie Moore