Best Psychologists Sayings
96 Psychologists quotes by 84 unique authors
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A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.
— Andy Murray
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Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
— Howard Gardner
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Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.
— Susan Cain
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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
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One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women.
— Geoffrey Gray
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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
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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
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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
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Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
— Daniel Kahneman
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Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
— Daniel Kahneman
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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
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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
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My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
— Steven Pinker
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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
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
— A. N. Wilson
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Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.
— Charles Jencks
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I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of…
— Oscar Wilde
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Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.
— Daniel Gilbert
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You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.
— Cassandra Clare
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The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable.…
— H. L. Mencken
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Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't…
— Sidney Poitier
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Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his…
— Jonah Lehrer
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