#psych

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#morality #psychology #reason #intelligence

Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out. ↗

— Rider Strong

#cabin #day #fever #finish #going

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#attention #being #business #conation #describe

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others ↗

— Eric Berne

#experience

What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually - to look in the mirror and not be ashamed - has been very important in not relapsing. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#been #does #emotionally #important #look

Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it. ↗

— Hank Ballard

#everything #good #i #i love #love

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#because #beforehand #conscious #definition #investigate

The researchers found that nearly every change they made was followed by a temporary uptick in performance, even when it involved simply undoing a previous change. They concluded that the increases in worker productivity were not due to better lighting or better pay or longer breaks per se. They were just temporary improvements caused by a change in routine. ↗

— Hal Herzog

#psychology #science #change

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

#becomes #common #common sense #equation #essence

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. ↗

— Tina Brown

#bush #creates #just #makes #mistake