As an introvert, it’s my right to live my life without being limited by some dictionary definition that says I’m a shy, reticent person all the time. I can be confident, outgoing, and aggressive if I want. Admitting that I’m an introvert has given me the freedom to exhibit introverted behavior

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Doctors are especially skilled at a few things. Prescribing medications? Absolutely. Performing surgery? For sure. Nutrition and weight loss? No, definitely not.

Myroslava Drozhko

When we lift weights regularly, we provide a mechanical loading stimulus to the muscle fibers of the high-threshold motor units every week. When we stop lifting weights, these muscle fibers stop receiving the regular stimulus that they need, and they begin to atrophy.

Chris Beardsley

As an introvert, it’s my right to live my life without being limited by some dictionary definition that says I’m a shy, reticent person all the time. I can be confident, outgoing, and aggressive if I want.

Nate Dern

By nature I'm sort of an introvert.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm not an introvert. I'm media shy.

Steven A. Cohen

When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

Laurie Helgoe

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

George H. Mead

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

Mordechai Vanunu

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

Edward Thorndike

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.

Jean Piaget

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

Keith Henson

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

James Carville

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

Philip Zimbardo

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

Samuel Alexander

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.

Brad Holland

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.

Edward Thorndike

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.

David Chalmers

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.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

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.

Billy Zane

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.

Edward Sapir

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

Simon Newcomb

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.

Christian Lous Lange

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

Thomas Szasz

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.

David Chalmers

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.

Albert Ellis

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

George H. Mead

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Theodor Adorno

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.

Claire Danes

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.

Holly Marie Combs

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

Karen Horney

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

Edward Thorndike

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

Jacques Yves Cousteau

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

Stanislav Grof

When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.

Lindsey Buckingham

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

James J. Gibson

I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.

Henry Reed

The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.

Wilhelm Wundt

I loved psychology and I loved history.

Joely Fisher

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

James M. Baldwin

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Robert Anton Wilson

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

Basil Bunting

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

Wilhelm Wundt

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.

Joely Fisher

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

David Horowitz

This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.

Kenny Loggins

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

James M. Baldwin

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

Morrie Schwartz