Famous quotes by Psychologists

"Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead, I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk!"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"There is such a thing as bad publicity"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him"

Nathaniel Branden, Psychologist

"Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not"

Hans Bender, Psychologist

"When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"Women in general want to be loved for what they are, and men for what they accomplish"

Theodor Reik, Psychologist

"And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness"

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Psychologist

"Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability"

Hans Bender, Psychologist

"That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average"

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Psychologist

"Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression"

Karen Horney, Psychologist

"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance"

Nathaniel Branden, Psychologist

"Fortunately, analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist"

Karen Horney, Psychologist

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