Psychology Quotes

I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

~ Michelle Wie

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

~ James Mark Baldwin

I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

~ Nargis Fakhri

One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'

~ K. A. Applegate

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

~ Steven Pinker

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

~ Gordon W. Allport

I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

~ George Lucas

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

~ Anthony Browne

Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.

~ Noah Baumbach

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

~ Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.

~ Lincoln Steffens

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

~ Lee Westwood

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

~ Basil Bunting