Psychologist Quotes

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

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.

I’m like a psychologist, I can discover the panther inside a woman and then, boosh! I can give her power!

...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.

Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is something that must be destroyed, dissolved or reduced, but [it is] capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

I'm my own psychologist.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

If the coach is good, I dont think a psychologist is needed.

I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples' lives for the better.

If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.

My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.

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.

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.

After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, “no hablo ingles.”

God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.

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.

It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist.

I'm one of the best-loved psychologists in the United States, but I'm also probably the most hated one.

Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

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)

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women.

You have to be a psychiatrist too, especially in fashion. A psychologist and a psychiatrist together.

Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable.

I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

I have always trusted writers, books, thinkers, psychologists in figuring things out. Maybe because they don't know me, so they are always honest, if that makes sense. Their wisdom and counsel are always unconditional.

I was talking to my friend who's a psychologist, who says a woman's frontal cortex isn't fully developed till 25 and a man's till 28. I was almost 34 when we met; he was 39. So I wouldn't say either of us has wildly changed; I just love him more and more.

'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better