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Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.
Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.
My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.
I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
If you want the human psyche, how we deal with humans in these situations, WWII is a very tangled place to go.
I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That's why I want to act.
Being a good actor is sort of understanding the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us perfect.
Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
I'm really interested in how people face existential crises and either overcome them or don't, and in how the human psyche responds.
I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.
I think that there's something really powerful about the sun and its effect on the human psyche. I lived in a place with no windows for twelve years.
The human psyche creates structure. We all go through our lives like, 'Oh! And then I moved here.' We're pattern-seeking, structure-producing machines.
Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.
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.
I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That's why I want to act.
I've always been a huge fan of thrillers like David Fincher's 'Se7en.' I am fascinated by the disturbing, dark underbelly of life. I find such films deeply engrossing. They delve deep into the human psyche, and that's a place worth exploring.
The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.
I reject the idea of work-life balance. The phrase is a bald-faced lie, designed to hang over the human psyche like the Sword of Damocles, because balance presumes an even distribution of weight, of value. But anyone who has ever lived understands that no set of tips or tricks can create a lifestyle equilibrium.
Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like 'If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.'
Intimidation is an unusual animal: it's a lot about body language and understanding the human psyche. Knowing that usually a direct stare will crush most human souls, and that's just the basic gist of it... The soul-crushing stare, the fatherly disappointment, mixed with a little bit of hate and rage - you're on your way.
When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders, and others succumb to their more base and primal selves and basically transform into savages. It's really a fascinating character study in the exploration of the human psyche.
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.