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I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about… — Annie Baker
Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree. — Susan Cain
The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they… — H. L. Mencken
One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women. — Geoffrey Gray
I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on… — Erma Bombeck
People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete. — David James
What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually… — Alfie Kohn
As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance. — Beverley Nichols
Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not… — John Paul Caponigro
As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell… — Tom Vanderbilt
No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. — Sigmund Freud
I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing. — Francis Ford Coppola
Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great… — Theodore Dalrymple
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments. — Daniel Kahneman
Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But… — Jeffrey Kluger
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever -… — Jeffrey Kluger
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. — Karl Kraus
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
I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year… — Gary Numan
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. — Steven Pinker
One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself. — Steven Pinker
Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate… — Steven Pinker
The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis.… — Steven Pinker

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