Prototypical Psychology Quotes & Sayings

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days. — Roger Bannister

I was very studious and square in college. — Vera Farmiga

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Great indeed is our need to love — Julia Hartwig

'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society — Trenton Lee Stewart

All my life was awake and astir in my frame ... and he I was not to array myself to meet. — Charlotte Bronte

There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock. — Douglas Brinkley

'City of God' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' are both films that I really like, but they are stylistically the opposite of what I wanted to do. — Cary Fukunaga

And the reason is found in the first lie-the lie which you hold as the truth about God-that God cannot be trusted; that God's love cannot be depended upon; that God's acceptance of you is conditional; that the ultimate outcome is thus in doubt. For if you cannot depend on God's love to always be there, on whose love can you depend? If God retreats and withdraws when you do not perform properly, will not mere mortals also? — Neale Donald Walsch

I would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, it's about the people. — Tim DeChristopher

to that place where no one could hear me but the sand when I walked upon it, where I could write and work, where I could read and sleep, where no one needed me except the shoreline to remark upon its incredible beauty. — Meredith Blevins

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures. — Jimmy Page

Hopefully, young people will see that you can be young and make the sacrifices to follow your dreams. — Tinie Tempah

It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything. — Morton Irving Seiden