4,465 Quotes About Psychology

Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.

Trying to pump up your motivation to stick with a hard habit is like trying to force water through a bent hose. You can do it, but it requires a lot of effort and increases the tension in your life. Meanwhile, making your habits simple and easy is like removing the bend in the hose. Rather than trying to overcome the friction in your life, you reduce it.

Had she, like a good therapist, helped me reach back in time to turn the dial on the locked safe of who I am? I had spent many hours with counsellors trying to remember, or to guess, or to chance upon or to deduce, the combination that would make it click and the door swing open.

We can already see how algorithms competing to maximize our attention have the capacity to not only transform cultures but redefine the experience of existence. Algorithmically reinforced “engagement” lies at the heart of our outrage politics, call-out culture, selfie-induced vanity, tech addiction, and eroding mental well-being. Targeted users are soaked in content to keep them clicking.

It’s more like ... she has grown too big and feels trapped in her own skin.

The underlying ideology within social media is not to enhance choice or agency, but rather to narrow, filter, and reduce choice to benefit creators and advertisers. Social media herds the citizenry into surveilled spaces where the architects can track and classify them and use this understanding to influence their behavior. If democracy and capitalism are based on accessible information and free choice, what we are witnessing is their subversion from the inside.

... Truth or reality is avoided when is painful. We can revise our maps only when we have the discipline to overcome pain...

...Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs...

...What does a life of total dedication to the truth mean? It means first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it, but simultaneously examine the examiner...