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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. You have to look at a higher level of organization. -- Steven Pinker
Psychologist: "This, ah, is a new sort of, ah, psychopathology that we're only now beginning to, ah, understand. These, ah, super-serial killers have no, ah, 'type' but, ah, rather consider everyone to be their 'type.'"Gramma: "Did you hear that? Your daddy's a superhero! -- Barry Lyga
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. -- Sigmund Freud
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. -- Anton Chekhov
A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you. -- Harold Ramis
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated. -- A. N. Wilson
The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches. -- Daniel Kahneman
When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated focus," although I've yet to find out what term historians should use). -- Paulo Coelho
So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation, and the little we write about it has been written better by poets and novelists. -- Harry Harlow
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 role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play. -- Malcolm Gladwell
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 is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move away from me. ... And now when I tell people what I do, they move toward me. -- Martin Seligman
I went to a psychologist friend and said if 500 people claimed to see Jesus after he died, it was just a hallucination. He said hallucinations are an individual event. If 500 people have the same hallucination, that's a bigger miracle than the resurrection. -- Lee Strobel
I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists, the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beautiful for myself and for others. That's why I'm here. -- Uta Pippig
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 by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other. -- Candace Pert
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 rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices. -- Theodore Dalrymple
I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist. -- Christopher Walken
I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist. -- Alan Greenspan
As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory. -- Andrew Weil
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
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives. -- John Eldredge
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world. -- Malcolm Gladwell
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
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist. -- Lytton Strachey
A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one. -- Hillary Clinton
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 the inner life of everyone we knew. -- Annie Baker
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. -- Ivan Turgenev
Though as a psychologist I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I admit to having been repeatedly flabbergasted by the insouciance, and sometimes relish, with which our ancestors carried out and witnessed unspeakable cruelties. -- Steven Pinker
People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings. -- Daniel Kahneman
My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine. -- Zach Braff
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college. -- Philip Zimbardo
The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories. -- Richard Dawkins
The way that people feel changes everything. Feelings are forces. They cause us to time travel. And to leave ourselves, to leave our bodies. I would be that kind of psychologist who says, 'You're absolutely right - there are monsters under the bed.' -- Helen Oyeyemi
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 at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome. -- Gary Numan
Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves. -- Amy Chua
My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife's life? -- Jonathan Haidt
Having kids has proven to be this amazing - for me, this amazing source of ideas of anecdotes, of examples, I can test my own kids without human subject permission, so they pilot - I pilot my ideas on them. And so it is a tremendous advantage to have kids if you're going to be a developmental psychologist. -- Paul Bloom
All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid of my temper, get rid of my temper.' And there was only one guy who just said, 'I don't think this is related to, uh, issues. I think there has got to be something wrong.' -- Harvey Weinstein
I'm my own psychologist. -- Ziggy Marley
Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity. -- Pamela Stephenson
...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If the coach is good, I dont think a psychologist is needed. -- Hansie Cronje
If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed. -- Hansie Cronje
It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist. -- Thomas Lansing Masson
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples' lives for the better. -- T. J. Miller
Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections. -- Patricia MacLachlan
My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology. -- Marvin Sapp
The city gives even to children a sophisticated look that baffles the casual psychologist. -- Honoré Willsie Morrow
I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist. -- Gloria Estefan
If I wasn't a singer, I think I'd be studying to be a psychologist. -- Rihanna
My dad's a surfer-psychologist, and my mother's an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism. -- Vinessa Shaw
You have to be a psychiatrist too, especially in fashion. A psychologist and a psychiatrist together. -- Carolina Herrera
The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul. -- Aristotle
My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off. -- Meg Cabot
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. -- Karl Kraus
God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing. -- Thomas Keating
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I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature. -- Jonathan Kellerman
I'm like a psychologist, I can discover the panther inside a woman and then, boosh! I can give her power! -- Giuseppe Zanotti
It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth. -- Bertie Carvel
Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth. -- Bertie Carvel
Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes. -- Thomas J. Scheff
Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies. -- Clint Eastwood
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
My mom is the type of mom who wonders why I haven't used my psychology degree to become a successful clinical psychologist. -- Autre Ne Veut
I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities. -- Roger Goodell
No matter what Hitler said, he spoke with a fine feeling for the particular circle which he addressed. ... He was a great psychologist. -- Wilhelm Keitel
I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on. -- Tom Hardy
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
I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma. -- Chath Piersath
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
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
To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Accessing a "professional listener" such as a psychologist or counselor can be useful if the loved one wants to use this form of support. -- Timothy Carey
As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores. -- Steven Pinker
I've never, ever had any therapy. Some might say I need it, but I've never seen a shrink or a psychologist or anything like that. -- Criss Angel
As a psychologist, I can tell you that there are people who look very good in a group, but they're very different in a one-on-one situation. -- Henry Cloud
Jimmy Demaret and I had the best sports psychologist in the world. His name was Jack Daniels and he was waiting for us after every round. -- Jack Burke, Jr.
The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist. -- William James
The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid. -- John Dolan
A German psychologist says that women talk more than men because they have a bigger vocabulary. But, it evens out because men only listen half the time. -- Jay Leno
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 every day.' -- Tom Vanderbilt
I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99) -- Karen Joy Fowler
I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem. Anybody that has extreme highs and extreme lows is bipolar to any psychologist and that's not necessarily the truth. -- Kevin Gates
It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet." -- Jess Lair
Being a developmental psychologist didn't make me any better at dealing with my own children, no. I muddled through, and, believe me, fretted and worried with the best of them. -- Alison Gopnik
The Lord is a good psychologist: he knows the way our minds run. Turmoil can be the Lord's way of tapping us on the shoulder and saying, 'Don't forget me.' -- Eknath Easwaran
When I went to college I knew what I wanted to study, and what career I wanted to pursue. I wanted to study psychology in order to become a clinical psychologist. -- Jay L. Garfield
A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you. -- Jay Leno
My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate. -- Aaron Koblin
I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus. -- Alexei Sayle
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 are or what they think you should be. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
From my perspective as a depth psychologist, I see that those who have a connection with story are in better shape and have better prognosis than those to whom story must be introduced. -- James Hillman
I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop. -- Shelley Berman
Ego depletion comes from American psychologist Roy Baumeister, who believes that enduring something stressful exhausts our capacity for willpower to the extent that we give in to our temptations that we would rather avoid. -- Bruce Hood
A well-known psychologist once said, 'When a child reaches his third birthday, his parents will have given him half of all that they will ever be able to give him in the way of education. -- Corrie Ten Boom
I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me. -- Gloria Estefan
I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world -- Kathleen Turner
I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world. -- Kathleen Turner
I wanted to be a psychologist. You know, I thought that's what I'd be doing and it just goes to show you that, if you tell God your plans, He will laugh in your face. -- Gabourey Sidibe

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