Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools,… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
“The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
When a player keeps a calm demeanor on the court, it's easier for his ability to shine. The best response to an… — Walt Frazier Copy Share Image
It's best to not confuse optimism with hope. Optimism is a psychological attitude toward life. Hope goes further. It is an anchor… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I often pose questions to myself and want the answers. The questions may be psychological or emotional. Or they may involve botany… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's always been strange to me that someone can say they're a vampire fan. I'm not a non-fan, but it's such an… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
The sort of resilient personality who can bounce back quickly after a major setback, does so largely because they quickly generate positive… — Nick Baylis Copy Share Image
“The enemy was close. Despite my fear, I was somehow having fun. Being chased and killed by villains was a thrilling vision.… — Tatsuhiko Takimoto Copy Share Image
The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most sophisticated and highly evolved system is that originated by Joseph Scogna. I was impressed by the profound insights into… — Rudolph Ballentine Copy Share Image
Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I believe that to some degree there are situational and psychological laws of cause-and-effect, but I don't believe there's some Über-soul who… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty,… — C. Lloyd Morgan Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large… — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
The "biggest" poems I ever made are based on the psychological principal of the "Johari Window:" what the self freely shares with… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary,… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
The psychological pain--and the ethical shame--of American poverty are made greater by the fact that this country possesses the wealth and the… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
I think I'm becoming a psychologist in explaining the Republican Party. It's the only way you can explain 'em. It's psychological. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image