#psych

I think if you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#business #cause #crazy #else #greater

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#agreed #carefully #did #evidence #go

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#anyone #comfort #console #contrary #destiny

When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information ↗

— Thomas Gilovich

#human-behavior #logic #mind #psychology #life

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged. ↗

— Thomas Gilovich

#logic #mind #psychology #attitude

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#attainable #helps #measure #probability #psychology

You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside. ↗

— Cheryl Tiegs

#age #aside #biological #chronological #i

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#go #grew #psychiatrist #up #weak

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception. ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#been #benevolence #both #difference #enormous

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone. ↗

— Charlie Trotter

#already #else #finally #i #okay