Famous quotes by Psychologists

"Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves"

Theodor Reik, Psychologist

"Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality"

Theodor Reik, Psychologist

"The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods"

Theodor Reik, Psychologist

"In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women"

Theodor Reik, Psychologist

"One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find, in even very young children, a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults"

Melanie Klein, Psychologist

"Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste"

Daniel Starch, Psychologist

"The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print"

Daniel Starch, Psychologist

"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them"

James Dobson, Psychologist

"A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work"

Karl Abraham, Psychologist

"The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me"

Jonathan Potter, Psychologist

"Well, it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision"

John Money, Psychologist

"It makes it very exciting, don't you think, to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?"

John Money, Psychologist

"My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership"

James Dobson, Psychologist

"God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election"

James Dobson, Psychologist

"Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give, the more you get, and the more you get, the more you feel like giving"

Penelope Leach, Psychologist

"These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way"

Jonathan Kellerman, Psychologist

"It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout"

Jonathan Kellerman, Psychologist

"In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave"

Naomi Weisstein, Psychologist

"Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price"

Jonathan Potter, Psychologist

"In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure"

Hans Eysenck, Psychologist

"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death"

Erik H. Erikson, Psychologist

"Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact, the family brings up baby by being brought up by him"

Erik H. Erikson, Psychologist

"Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress"

Daniel Starch, Psychologist

"One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit"

James Dobson, Psychologist

"Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect"

Jonathan Kellerman, Psychologist

"We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive"

Jonathan Kellerman, Psychologist

"I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need"

Jonathan Kellerman, Psychologist

"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority"

Stanley Milgram, Psychologist

"Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built"

James Dobson, Psychologist

"The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used"

Stanley Smith Stevens, Psychologist

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