Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ariel Gore

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

Claude C. Hopkins

Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring

Thomas Nagel

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

Phil McGraw

Well, I'm not sure what pop psychology is, but I don't like it.

Mignon McLaughlin

Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.

Marvin Minsky

Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and psychology. He's redefining and reforming the role of the philosopher.

Michael Crichton

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

Bill Vaughan

When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .

Bertrand Russell

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

Mark Richt

I didn't know I got criticism.

Eric Herzik

Politicians will tell you that their spouses get more upset with the criticisms than they do. That is what is going on here.

John Cain

I get real upset when I hear criticism about Ron.

Eugene Delacroix

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

George Santayana

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

George Saintsbury

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.

Denis Medeiros

My only criticism is that there is too much weight loss in the first two weeks. When it goes into the other phases of the diet, it is OK.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

Michael Ballack

The 2-0 defeat by Slovakia saw the players come in for criticism and the young players need to learn how to handle it,

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.