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I've studied psychology. I'm fascinated by the human mind, and I love people. -- Berglind Icey
For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind. -- Joan Halifax
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. -- James Mark Baldwin
In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them. -- Charles D. Broad
In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them. -- Charles D. Broad
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics. -- Steven Pinker
Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second. -- Michael Johnson
Studying neuro-linguistic programming is what teaches you how to implant and extract thoughts. Mixing psychology, hypnotism and magic somewhat goes into this area called mentalism, which is what I mostly do. It's magic of the mind. -- Keith Barry
The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved. -- John Desmond Bernal
I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever. -- Sierra McCormick
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
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
I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind - I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things that happened inside people's heads. -- Dan Chaon
I think psychology would be an easy transition and figuring out the human mind somehow. -- Wilmer Valderrama
you can't read Human mind by #Psychology... you can read their mind by talking with them at night.. -- Self_Thought
I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts. -- Dakota Fanning
Within Inspirational Psychology, health doesn't refer to just the state of the body, but also the state of the mind, which affects the body. -- Lee L Jampolsky
Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change in one's life. -- Silver RavenWolf
Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor. -- Crystal Reed
Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to know about the software. -- Patricia Churchland
Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace. -- Brennan Manning
Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open. -- Jack Kornfield

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