38 Psychologists Quotes for You to Enjoy

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless. Jeffrey Kluger

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices. Theodore Dalrymple

Great Mistakes Past Own Our Considering Our Lives Recognize Scant Selected Attention Importance Make Does Versions Psychiatrists Psychologists Us Choices Painful Avoid Resentment Lives Receives Necessity Damage Presents

Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave. Jeffrey Kluger

Respect Cause Will Narcissism Lose Status Admired Fact Since Liked Known Greater Narcissist Than Patients Being Psychologists Crave Social Them Might Fueled Use Therapeutic Actually Lever Need Stressing

As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody. Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T. Angela Duckworth

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. Jared Diamond

History Genocide Evil Minds Those Rapists About Study Understand How Came Same Psychologists Reason Injustices Things

Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt. Gloria Steinem

Women Ego Value Guilt Men Say Favor Writers Exchange Idea Comedians Male Shock May Want Psychologists Places Fantasy Based

Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones. Kay Redfield Jamison

Positive Depression Anger Emotions Anxiety Temperament Vital Morbid More Catalog Leave Clinical Psychologists Reasons Chosen Largely Necessity Dissect

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad. Martin Seligman

Sad Angry You Be Happy Happy Suffering Believe Say Those One Of The Things Mental Mental Illness Opposite Were Continuum Same Anxious Just Ends Psychologists Depressed Used Moment Illness Things

If you're satisfied with your social life, according to psychologists, you tend to be satisfied with life in general. Robin Marantz Henig

Life You Satisfied General Tend According Psychologists Social Your Social Life

I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing. Alan Ball

Great Character Degree Think Way All Writers Sexuality Some Writers Armchair Identity Great Way Another Because Get Personal Psychologists Personal Thing Root Really Fascinating Thing

I would hate to be in high school now. Psychologists talk about the 'imaginary audience' that teens seem to feel they have around them and that makes them think they have to keep up their image all the time. Now with Facebook and MySpace and 24/7 online access, that imaginary audience has become real. Alexandra Robbins

Time Facebook Hate School Become Think Teens High Would High School About Seem Online Myspace Feel Talk Around Makes Access Audience Real Up Psychologists Them Keep Now Image Imaginary

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't. Andy Murray

Sports Sometimes Lot Psychologists Younger Used Helped

Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce. Barry Schwartz

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. Corliss Lamont

Knowledge Philosophers Intuition Does Itself Cannot Psychologists Amount Disregarded

Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present. Daniel Goldstein

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. Daniel Kahneman

People Think Ought About Economists Psychologists Actually Watch

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments. Daniel Kahneman

Aim Statistics Running Stuff Scientists Experiments Psychologists Elaborate Really

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship. David Herbert Donald

Relationship Think Carefully Speed Evidence Tried About Merely Over Over It Lincoln Go Very Did Just Psychologists Agreed Homosexual

You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person. Eric Idle

Love Funny You Together Mother Abandonment Looking Become Think Kid Insane John Attention Make Because Terry His Person Same Psychologists Depressions Us Initially

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world. Gerald Edelman

World Single Every Way See Both Individual Computer Absolutely Development Brain Encounters Psychologists Many Cognitive

I thought psychologists were people who rob, figuratively of course, money from the insecure. But they are not. They are people who are there to help you, and if you find a good psychologist, they will allow you to talk about everything and open up, without the slightest of fears, and that is no easy thing. Gianluigi Buffon

Good You People Money Will Thought Fears Everything Slightest Insecure Easy Find Easy Thing About Allow Open Rob Talk Course Without Were Up Psychologist Psychologists Figuratively Help Who Thing

One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should. Gretchen Rubin

Positive Happiness Culture Key Calm Outer About Given More Point Emphasis Oddly Than Order Psychologists Should Popular Popular Culture Inner

Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties. Jane Ridley

Life Work Today Battle Stage Down Later Recognised Emerged Adolescence Only Fact Adulthood Generational New Got After Happening Psychologists Transitional Century Twenties Early

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists. Jordan Peterson

Me Top Record Percent Puts Psychologists Publication

Psychologists Quotes

No more psychologists quotes