James Carville Quotes

You have your ideology and I have mine.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.

It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political, and moral beliefs that control our actions.

I'm very interested in the human mind, what's going on in there.

I still ponder what gets in people's minds and souls, why they do the things they do.

The way you think influences the way you feel, and the way you feel determines how you act.

I'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.

I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind - I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things that happened inside people's heads.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.

The mind is the effect, not the cause.

I've always loved science, as far back as I can remember. I was very, very curious about how everything worked: the world, the physical universe, chemistry, law. So it was only natural to be curious about how our mind works.

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.

For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.