Quotes by Psychology You always catch the wrong players. Abe Lemons psychology player sports The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations or his psychological health... We must find out what psychology might be if it could free itself from the stultifying effects of limited, pessimistic and stingy preoccupations with human nature. Abraham Maslow psychology successful men The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy Abraham Maslow psychology yield philosophy What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily. Abraham Maslow psychology normal average If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have. Abraham Zaleznik psychology anxiety entrepreneur We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia. Adam Phillips psychology understanding mother I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash. Agatha Christie rely-upon psychology experts The moment we make up our minds that we are going on with this determination to exalt God overall, we step out of the worldís parade... We acquire a new viewpoint; a new and different psychology will be formed within us; a new power will begin to surprise us by its upsurgings and its outgoings. Aiden Wilson Tozer psychology determination mind This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll. Al Arbour psychology sports firsts The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed. Alain LeRoy Locke psychology generations spirit I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology. Alan Greenspan psychology issues interesting Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article. Alasdair MacIntyre utterance psychology ethics Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change. Albert Bandura psychology mean people Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth. Albert Camus psychology logic forever Every ideology is contrary to human psychology. Albert Camus psychology humans ideology Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. Albert Camus psychology action thinking Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought. Albert Einstein psychology soul two I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me. Albert Einstein psychology hate wise Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Albert Goldbarth rainbow psychology night Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises. Albert Memmi psychology racism hands 1234567891011»