Psychological Quotes

Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?

Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero.

A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.

It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.

If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

Although I studied, I have never been taught paintingbecause I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

The 3 key components for success are as follows: Psychological Preparedness Physical Conditioning Mental Toughness

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

Freedom of the will is a psychological fiction.

A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.

The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

A fight is mental, not just physical and psychological warfare is absolutely part of that.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.

You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

All problems in mathematics are psychological.

Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position.

When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.

Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one individual we can decide whether he is "mass" or not. The mass is all that which sets no value on itself good or ill based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everybody," and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.

The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Niceness is the psychological armor of the people-pleaser.

Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics.

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.

I have made it a habit not to speculate over the psychological state of our elected leaders.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.