Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

William James

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

Richard Dawkins

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

Robert Sternberg

I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.

Robert Sternberg

There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

Will Self

I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

Warren Farrell

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

Wilhelm Wundt

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

James Blake

Just to keep me calm, ... I might have been a little too hyper if I was going out there in front of those crowds this week ...

S. Hughes

He is the kind of player that excites crowds and gets people off their seats and cheering, and we hope everyone will come and see him.

Jared Voss

This was a good opener, and the way our schedule is, we should have good crowds all year.

Jim Calhoun

He's going to take on at least nine opponent crowds who are going to brutalize him. He's got to be man enough to stand up to that. He put himself in that situation.

Tim Sanders

There is excitement in the air, ... We're not going to be a big draw like the over-the-mountain schools are. But the crowds have been supportive.

Jeremy Bonderman

I think we're going to have a lot more crowds like this. We've got a great team, and we're going to be in it for a long time.

Vance Havner

A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.

Samuel Johnson

Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!

Ryan Tedder

Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.

Sally Forman

I was interested in stepping out as a woman in philanthropy because I know that there are lots of powerful and generous women in the community and it gives us a common cause, which is schools. We show that we have strength and influence.

Ed Cogswell

I wouldn't say it's common - it really is dependent on a large number of factors,

Diana Oblinger

I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.

Frank Penela

Just spray and just do the common sense things you'd do at this time of the year.

Platen

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Todd Spencer

I suspect that is going to be a pretty common situation for the guys who worked the port.

Wang Guoliang

I think it is common practice. This is something that other countries have done in the past. The US put such a levy in place in 1972.

Joseph Cheng

He is there to promote common interests between the two countries and to try to reduce the 'China threat' image. This is a very serious challenge.

Thomas Piketty

Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.