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Psychological Quotes

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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.
Ibn Khaldun

Authors on Psychological Quotes: Carl Jung Ziggy Marley Jiddu Krishnamurti Sigmund Freud R. D. Laing Steve Martin Eckhart Tolle Ralph Waldo Emerson Alasdair MacIntyre Magnus Carlsen Judith Butler David Einhorn Tucker Max Mark Dvoretsky Peter Gay Wilhelm Wundt Gene Wolfe Ludwig Wittgenstein Chuck Norris Stefan Heym John Paul Caponigro Erving Polster Vivian Gornick Helene Deutsch Anthony Giddens Neal Stephenson Maxwell Maltz Masha Gessen Dylan McDermott Barbara Ess James Boswell Anne Michaels Nathalie Sarraute
2.
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.
B. F. Skinner

A person who has been disciplined is not necessarily less likely to act in a particular manner; at best, he acquires knowledge of how to evade punishment.
3.
Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?
Kevin Gates

'Inhaling is so essential with bodily exertion, then how much more crucial is it with mental exertion?'
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Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero.
Velupillai Prabhakaran

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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.
Dieter Rams

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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.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

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

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

10.
The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.
Tom Platz

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

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

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

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

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

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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.
Robert Byrd

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

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

19.
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.
Ayrton Senna

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

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

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

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Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.
R. D. Laing

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

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Freedom of the will is a psychological fiction.
Louis Berkhof

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

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

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

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

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Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
Allen Tate

31.
I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.
Ti-Grace Atkinson

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

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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.
David Einhorn

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All problems in mathematics are psychological.
Pierre Deligne

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

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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.
Mikhail Tal

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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.
John Cleese

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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.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

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

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

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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.
Larry Clark

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Niceness is the psychological armor of the people-pleaser.
Harriet B. Braiker

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

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

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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.
Robert A. Heinlein

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A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.
James Rachels

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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.
Florence King

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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.
Joe Queenan

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