Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

Wilhelm Wundt

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

Wilhelm Wundt

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

Wilhelm Wundt

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

Wilhelm Wundt

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

Karl A. Menninger

Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.

George Lucas

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

John Irving

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Carly Rae Jepsen

I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.

Regina Spektor

I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.

Steven Pinker

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

Mike Leigh

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

Jeb Bush

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

Barbara Kingsolver

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Brad Pitt

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession...

Ken Livingstone

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.

Tom Bailey

Yes, people's obsession with my Thompson Twins years is very frustrating,

Vladimir Putin

We are working in other areas [like ALROSA] as well, so there are no radical changes to our position. It is not the case when we have to, as we say, make a lot of fuss about it. In other words, we do not have to be obsessed with privatizing immediately and at any cost.

Tyra Banks

I'm obsessed with making women look and feel more beautiful than they ever thought possible.

Emma Watson

I'm not obsessed with books, I'm not obsessed with school and homework, and I'm not obsessed with not getting into trouble.

Gary Clark, Jr.

I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.

Mika

I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

Lea Michele

I am obsessed with Gwyneth Paltrow.

Kreayshawn

I'm obsessed with horrible movies.

Augusten Burroughs

The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.

Cameron Russell

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.