Top 1200 Psychological Thrillers Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

"The War on Consciousness" is really all physical manifestations and all those problems are ultimately just a war on your way of thinking. Especially now, when we're involved in the war on terror. Terror is a psychological term. Terrorism is a political term. Terrorist is a sociopolitical term. But terror is a psychological thing.

Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.

The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.

Look realistically at espionage thrillers again. They're not only alive, readers are excited about them.

The management of creativity is more intimate. By that I mean that it deals with an individual's personal, psychological landscape. It deals with the way you create relationships. It deals with creating an atmosphere and environment that support the creative process. As a result, it is a management skill set that is inherently psychological and that encourages desired outcomes rather than demands those outcomes.

I've always really liked murder mysteries and thrillers, and great to be able to be actually part of one.

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

I like thrillers. That's a genre that I'm really taken with. I love Hitchcock, that thriller style. I'm a student of it.

Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump.

There are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first.

We grew up on Scorsese and Coppola and '70s crime thrillers.

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

As a social anthropologist, I naturally accept and even stress the fact that there are major differences, both mental and psychological, which separate the different races of mankind. Indeed, I would be inclined to suggest that however great may be the physical differences between such races as the European and the Negro, the mental and psychological differences are greater still.

Pete Moffat writes crime conspiracy thrillers so beautifully. He goes places other people wouldn't; he is fearless.

What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.

I think it's very interesting for a director that enjoys thrillers and mysteries like I do to have the challenge to do that.

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.

It's interesting how thrillers reflect the times we live in.

Psychosynthesis is a method of psychological development and self realization for those who refuse to remain the slave of their own inner phantasms or of external influences, who refuse to submit passively to the play of psychological forces which is going on within them, and who are determined to become the master of their own lives.

For thrillers, it's especially difficult to carve out a good trailer.

I've done specific work to take care of anxiety. I believe that the psychological side can work for you just as it can against you. The better your command is over the psychological aspect, the better your physical performance. There's no other way.

On a deeper level, I think many stories - especially thrillers - can be a journey to the heart of darkness.

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.

I love thrillers - 'Dead Calm' is one of my favourite movies of all time.

For escape, I love popcorn thrillers that you can read in a weekend, like 'Sharp Objects' and 'The Woman in Cabin 10.'

I love adult thrillers and murder mysteries and everything like that.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things but yeah I can imagine that you can kind of - I think it depends on one's psychological state. I think there are some people who are on the internet and can fall in love and seem to be in a certain psychological state and other people who are - who couldn't quite do that.

There are doubtless all kinds of ways of explaining why people want security, but I do not think we can start with the psychological explanations. Even psychological states like fear or desire for safety are conditioned by social and political forms of intimidation and scare-mongering that intensify those emotions, and even work to persuade people that nothing less than their survival is at stake.

With thrillers, I tend to concentrate on the research and pace more than the characters.

When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore.

No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort 's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

I came to Hollywood and felt myself an outsider, and I was sent all these action thrillers and superhero scripts.

I think fantasy thrillers excite audiences as, inherently, people have a fascination for the unknown and the unexplained.

Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines.

I'm really into kind of a 'Sixth Sense' type of movie - mysteries, thrillers a little bit.

Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this means that we find the psychological facts as it were in the constellations. This originally gave rise to the idea that these factors derive from the stars, whereas they are merely in a relation of synchronicity with them. I admit that this is a very curious fact which throws a peculiar light on the structure of the human mind.

Mass market paperback thrillers are a dime a dozen. The trick is to find something that actually sticks to the ribs.

I really believe that is helping people. I've been talking to oncologists about how we can re-frame and re-think the chemo process, so it becomes a much more spiritual, psychological journey. Where people really could burn away what needs to be burned away. It's happening anyway. Why not frame it in a psychological way where it can serve as a transformation?

I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.

I'm not a horror fans as much as I'm a fan of thrillers.

The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.

I read a lot fewer thrillers than I think people assume I do.

If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.

The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.

After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers.

I like to read all kinds of books ranging from spiritual, philosophical, to best-sellers and crime thrillers.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.

I like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too.

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they all think their sons are innocent. That's simple psychological denial. The reality is too painful to bear, so you just distort it until it's bearable. We all do that to some extent, and it's a common psychological misjudgment that causes terrible problems.

Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup -- of everyone's psychological makeup.

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

Thrillers excite me as an actor and I have always wanted to be a part of one.

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.