What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.

We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

I'd always been interested in psychology.

We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.

Everything that gets born dies.

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you you must feel that you can trust them too even when youre in the dark. Even when youre falling.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in.

When you look at it that way you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.

I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.

I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.