Divock Origi Quotes

I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react differently.

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.

We've progressed well beyond the four humors in the two thousand-odd years since Hippocrates, but we still haven't satisfied the urge to discover ways of sorting people into personalities and types and, in so doing, predict how they might act in specific situations.

Oh, I'm a psychology nerd; I love to learn about why people behave the way they do, how experiences influence us.

From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.

The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

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.

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.

I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after a while that mental processes come from the brain, and in order to understand them, you need to be a biologist of the brain.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me.

I've studied human psychology my whole life.

Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable. We had behaviorism, Freudian psychology, all of these theories that you learn in psychology. Totally untestable. Now, we can test it, because physics allows us to calculate energy flows in the brain.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

I think there's times where I'm introverted, and there's times where I'm extroverted.

I studied psychology in school, and I learned how to understand people's feelings, how to get along with people and relate to people.

I'm good at reading people. If I wasn't an actor, I would be a psychologist.