Psychological Problems Quotes:

We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type.

- Maia Szalavitz

topic: Kids, Cages, Problem, Psychological Problems

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.

- Fran Lebowitz

source: "Notorious: Piper Perabo, Daniel Sunjata spill personal details". Interview with Nina Terrero, ew.com. September 19, 2016.

topic: Writing, Hard Times, Want, Psychological Problems

It's always been strange to me that someone can say they're a vampire fan. I'm not a non-fan, but it's such an unusual thing to be a fan of. That's like saying, "I love zombie movies! I just love 'em! They're my favorite!" That's more of a psychological problem than being an actual fan.

- Robert Pattinson

topic: Zombie, Vampire, Fans, Zombie Movie, Psychological Problems

And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.

- Karl Marlantes

source: "'Matterhorn' Author On What It's Like 'To Go To War'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. August 30, 2011.

topic: Military, Stress, Thinking, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Psychological Problems

The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.

- Marilyn vos Savant

topic: Age, Problem, Psychological, Psychological Problems

Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

source: Jiddu Krishnamurti's first public talk in Ojai, California, April 1, 1980.

topic: Mind, Problem, Psychological, Psychological Problems

Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as complete a view as is possible anywhere of the way scientific method can be applied to psychological problems. Secondly, it is of immense practical importance, educationally, socially, and in regard to physiology and genetics.

- Raymond Cattell

topic: Science, Views, Two, Psychological Problems

A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big subjects, big subjects. You can't balk at work like that. As an actor, that's as good as it gets.

- Robert Carlyle

topic: Character, Play, Childhood, Good As It Gets, Psychological Problems

Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself- and to do so takes AN INSATIABLE CURIOSITY ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION

- Uta Hagen

topic: Character, Passion, Play, Psychological Problems

In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards, nasty, twisted, deeply flawed human beings with serious psychological problems. Even them. When I get inside their skin and look out through their eyes, I have to feel a certain - if not sympathy, certainly empathy for them. I have to try to perceive the world as they do, and that creates a certain amount of affection.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Writing, Eye, Order, Psychological Problems

If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He goes out and creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. He's a pretty poor excuse for a Supreme Being.

- Gene Roddenberry

source: Edward A. Gross, Gene Roddenberry, Mark A. Altman (1994). “Great Birds of the Galaxy”, Image Pub of New York

topic: Atheist, Mistake, Insecure, Supreme Being, Very Impressive

If men act upon the teaching of the Word of God, and as proportionately men live according to the teaching and commands of the Bible, so they have in practice a sufficient psychological base. I will find you a man dealing with psychological problems on the basis of the teaching of the Word of God, even if he never heard the word psychology, or does not know what it means.

- Francis Schaeffer

topic: God, Teaching, Mean, Psychological Problems

When you get your self realization or your second birth you become entitled to an awareness by which you can find out the roots of everything. You can find out the roots why people get sick, you can find out why there are incurable diseases, you can find out why there are psychological problems, you can find out why there are moral crisises, you can find out why there are political problems, why there are economic problems.

- Nirmala Srivastava

source: Nirmala Srivastava's speech during the Public Program Day 1 at Audimax University in Vienna, Austria, www.amruta.org. October 12, 1987.

topic: Love, Wisdom, Yoga, Economic Problems, Psychological Problems

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.

- Helen Fisher

topic: Jealous, Insecure, People, Childhood Trauma, Psychological Problems