#psych

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome. ↗

— Gary Numan

#causing #child #grammar #grammar school #happiest

The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#churches #emotional #government #intervene #kind

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#being #boxing #devastating #feeling #hit

My brother is nine years older than I am. He's a psychology professor, I'm an actor, and so we look at life in two different ways. We thought it would be interesting to come together and take our unique perspectives and share them with everybody else. ↗

— Matt Czuchry

#am #brother #come #different #different ways

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#attempt #bold #considered #desperate #generally

I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth. ↗

— Tatjana Patitz

#get #got #i #into #liked

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#about #any #away #create #crisis

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#back #biologists #centuries #going #human

It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides. ↗

— Ricky Ponting

#comfortably #few #good #leave #marks

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

#civilization #come #creativity #foundation #her