Human Behavior Quotes - Page 8

• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  Wally Lamb

  Attention, Stories, Hardship

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• The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior-like the deepest capacities for emotional respone which drive and guide it-is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Emotional, Long

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• The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.

  William Hardy McNeill

  Wisdom, Islamic, Example

  "Keeping Together in Time". Book by William Hardy McNeill, Ch. 4: Religious Ceremonies, 1995.

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• I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature

  Christopher Meloni

  Dark, Thinking, Issues

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• It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  May, Influence, Environment

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• I studied law before I became a filmmaker, and I actually have a great belief in the justice system and the rule of law. I think it's the thing that separates us from animals. I really believe in the rule of law because it's an attempt to bring rational accountability to human behavior, which has a great capability of becoming irrational.

  Nick Broomfield

  Believe, Thinking, Animal

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall determine them. The first educational question will not be 'what knowledge is of the most worth?' but 'what kinds of human beings do we wish to produce?' The possibilities virtually defy our imagination.

  John Goodlad

  Educational, Mean, Issues

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• I don't find the same things funny that many other people seem to find funny. I don't really respond to sex jokes and things like that, and some of my friends look at me and go, "Come on, Nic, that was my best joke. Why aren't you laughing?" I go, "I really don't know why I'm not laughing. I'm sort of out of sync with it." So I'd have to find something that was really about weird human behavior for me to laugh.

  Nicolas Cage

  Sex, People, Laughing

  "Knowing" Press conference, collider.com. March 18, 2009.

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• Somehow we have been taught to believe that the experiences of girls and women are not important in the study and understanding ofhuman behavior. If we know men, then we know all of humankind. These prevalent cultural attitudes totally deny the uniqueness of the female experience, limiting the development of girls and women and depriving a needy world of the gifts, talents, and resources our daughters have to offer.

  Jeanne Elium

  Girl, Daughter, Attitude

  Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.54, Celestial Arts

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• Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Discipline, Investing

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• A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking somebody in the eye, shaking hands and being friendly under duress.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Party, Eye, Hands

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• Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as a guiding principle both in social theory and as a basis for human behavior. Such a development when it occurs will alter the course of human history.

  Warder Clyde Allee

  Acceptance, Guiding Principles, Important

  "Cooperation among Animals with Human Implications". Book by Warder Clyde Allee, p. 213, 1951.

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• The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Kindness, Behavior, Bases

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful.

  Brian Tracy

  Powerful, Stronger, Path

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Sep 23, 2012

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• It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving, or that the survival of the societies we know depends upon filling a simple set of prescriptions. It is all too complex and dynamic, whether it involves managing greenhouse gases or Nile snails... The future condition of the globe's interlocking natural and social systems depends more on human behavior than on the further investigation of natural processes, however desirable that may be.

  Gilbert F. White

  Simple, Survival, Environmental

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• I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

  Kevin Gates

  Grief, Bipolar, Study

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• Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Mean, Ideas

  "War Photographer". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.

  Dane Cook

  Book, Years, Twelve

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• War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

  Jane Goodall

  War, Records, Firsts

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• Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.

  J. D. Salinger

  Confused, Firsts, Behavior

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even single-mindedly, motivated to feel happy.

  Daniel Gilbert

  People, Behavior, Motivated

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.33, Vintage

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• I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

  Errol Morris

  Behavior, Ability, Skeptical

  "The Anti-Post-Modern Post-Modernist". Lecture by Errol Morris, errolmorris.com.

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• Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.

  Louis Leakey

  Tools, Stones, Behavior

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• On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of human behavior can be described and even predicted in terms of objectively verifiable and quantifiable data seems to us to have been established.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Data, Principles, Sides

  Anatol Rapoport, Albert M. Chammah (1965). “Prisoner's Dilemma: A Study in Conflict and Cooperation”, p.5, University of Michigan Press

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• Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

  Roy H. Williams

  Book, Today, Behavior

  Roy H. Williams (2012). “The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires”, p.12, BookBaby

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