Quotes with psychology

  • Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
  • A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.
  • I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

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  • Albert Ellis I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Idleness is the parent of psychology.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Susan Sontag A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Ben Horowitz By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Edward Blishen Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.
    Edward Blishen
    English author and broadcaster (1920 - 1996)
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  • Billy Zane For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
    Billy Zane
     
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  • Bobby Flay Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bee Wilson If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Cass Sunstein In psychology and behavioral economics, people have shown that if you just describe options in a certain way, or make some features of a situation salient, you can get people to do and even see what you want. You don't have to be a Jedi to manipulate people's attention.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Boris Sidis Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.
    Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Our psychology is... a science of mere phenomena without any metaphysical implications. Treats all metaphysical claims and assertions as mental phenomena, and regards them as statements about the mind and its structure.
    Source: Psychology and Religion: West and East (1958)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Brad Holland Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Boris Sidis Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.
    Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Boris Sidis Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.
    Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Maxwell Maltz Realizing that our actions, feelings and behavior are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Camille Paglia Sedgwick has managed to convert pedestrian critical skills and little discernible knowledge in history, philosophy, psychology, art or even pre-modern literature into a lucrative academic career.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Agnes E. Meyer The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.
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  • Boris Sidis The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.
    Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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