Quotes about Psychology

It's the radio, you see. The radio makes everyone feel the same thing at the same time. Instead of millions of various thoughts, one big psychological fixation. The radio commands our gut response.

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very real.

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological.

Many think that the only way to change your behavior is to first change your feelings.

There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.

Sometimes people behave in certain ways to provoke us to react in certain ways. If we stop reacting in these certain ways, we take all the fun out of it for them.

Males raised and nurtured on mama's 'love' resent the need that they have for women.

Doctors estimate that seventy to eighty percent of their business is non-health-related. People aren't sick, they're self- dramatizing. Sometimes the hardest part of a medical job is keeping a straight face. As Jerry Seinfeld observed of his twenty years of dating: That's a lot of acting fascinated.

Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.

I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. To call what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't understand.