Famous quotes by Psychologists

"It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action"

Stanley Milgram, Psychologist

"Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others, very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin, but inevitably questions emerge during the writing"

Jonathan Kellerman, Psychologist

"Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world"

Jonathan Kellerman, Psychologist

"A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology"

Stanley Smith Stevens, Psychologist

"It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins"

John Money, Psychologist

"Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world"

Naomi Weisstein, Psychologist

"If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad"

Hans Eysenck, Psychologist

"The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella)"

Jonathan Kellerman, Psychologist

"The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job: making stuff up"

Jonathan Kellerman, Psychologist

"That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school, space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right"

Jonathan Kellerman, Psychologist

"That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing"

Jonathan Kellerman, Psychologist

"They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not"

Hans Eysenck, Psychologist

"There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate"

Hans Eysenck, Psychologist

"Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts"

Hans Eysenck, Psychologist

"The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation"

Stanley Smith Stevens, Psychologist

"For a small child, there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play"

Penelope Leach, Psychologist

"The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio"

Jonathan Potter, Psychologist

"In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients"

Hans Eysenck, Psychologist

"I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it"

Hans Eysenck, Psychologist

"When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness: hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life, a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter"

Terri Apter, Psychologist

"Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility"

Terri Apter, Psychologist

"Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly"

Otto Rank, Psychologist

"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others"

Otto Rank, Psychologist

"The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization"

Otto Rank, Psychologist

"The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?"

Otto Rank, Psychologist

"Art is life's dream interpretation"

Otto Rank, Psychologist

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