Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Vaughan

The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.

Allen Tate

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Edmund Burke

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Eckhart Tolle

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

Amy Chua

There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

Anne Michaels

To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

Carl Jung

The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

Carl Jung

Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.

Norman Spinrad

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

Eriq La Salle

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

Mike DeWine

There's no psychological barrier anymore that stops a young person or an older person from taking heroin.

Peter Travers

Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.

Nicky Oppenheimer

Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.

John Stuart Mill

A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.

Ziggy Marley

Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

Werner Erhard

Transformation is the shift of the principle which orients the person’s life, which is ordinarily the principle of gaining satisfaction. Essentially what organizes life for most of us is an attempt to gratify our needs; our psychological needs, our material needs, our personal needs … Individuals transform when there’s a shift in the principle which orients their life from one of gaining satisfaction to one of expressing the satisfaction they’ve already got...

Samuel Beckett

We are all born; some remain so.

Larry Clark

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.

Sigmund Freud

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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.

Steven Pinker

The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience . Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in brain structure and function, including many psychological disorders and, presumably, genius. The study confirms that the brain is a modular system comprising multiple intelligences, mostly nonverbal.

Richard Moss

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.