#psych

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#deceit #deception #fable #fake #false

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#as far as #changes #deal #except #far

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#condition #depression #exhaustion #fact #happening

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

— James Carville

#important #psychology

Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology. ↗

— Evan Davis

#called #cusp #economics #hot #human

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#director #exactly #film #first #heading

From the time I was 16 and I had my own checking account, you'd think most young women would run out and buy clothes. No, I ran out and got myself a psychiatrist! ↗

— Genie Francis

#buy #checking #clothes #got #had

Death whispers your name to me. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#death #death-and-dying #psychic #psychic-powers #sci-fi

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists. ↗

— Andy Murray

#lot #psychologists #sports #use

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

#acting #commonplace #crowd #each #far