psychological observation Quotes

In the dream, sheltered from the noise, the subject expressed a judgment much more on the mark than that manifested in wakefulness.

A part of being an actor is I people watch. I like to observe their behaviour, watch their reactions on the street and see how they talk to each other, and that's impossible when they are looking back at you. I used to enjoy taking the train and watching people in their own minds, struggling with themselves.

It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated with prosperity, and that joy and grief produce the same effects. For whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight they fight from ambition, which is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

Some girls have crazy eyes. You can spot that!

I think any good standup or actor is part philosopher, part psychologist and sociologist, because you're constantly recreating behaviors.

I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!