Human Behavior Quotes - Page 9

• you can’t use logic on human behavior.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Use, Logic, Behavior

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.94, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.

  Pauley Perrette

  Character, Acting, Way

  "VO Behind The Scenes: NCIS’s Pauley Perrette Voices Lois Lane". Interview, voicecoaches.com.

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• My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Study, Behavior, Theory

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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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• Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

  Mary McCarthy

  Men, Literature, Apes

  Mary McCarthy (2017). “Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979”, p.414, Library of America

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• There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

  David Letterman

  Courage, Real, Believe

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• In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.

  Robert De Niro

  Real, Trying, Acting

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• Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras, making the journey an enlightened experience. My emphasis has mainly been on affirmative reactions to human behavior and a strong attraction to the beauty in nature.

  Dennis Stock

  Strong, Art, Journey

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• There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

  Simon Sinek

  Two, Inspire, Way

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.19, Penguin

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• It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.

  Josef Albers

  Appreciation, Fashion, Art

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• All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

  Michael Crichton

  Psychology, Problem, Reason

  Michael Crichton (1996). “Michael Crichton: Two Complete Novels”, Wings

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• ... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Girl, Strong, Passion

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• Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

  Naoto Fukasawa

  Design, Experience, Needs

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• Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized we’ve become.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Mean, Law, Justice

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• When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information

  Thomas Gilovich

  People, Mind, May

  Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

  Seth Klarman

  Intelligent, Stories, Investing

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• I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

  William Friedkin

  Wall, Character, Alternatives

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• I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Intelligent, Earth, Examination

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Aliens Might Find Humans Too Stupid To Contact" By Meredith Bennett-Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2013.

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• All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

  John Boorman

  Stories, Legends, Behavior

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• Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?

  Ian Fleming

  Animal, Breathing, Smoking

  Ian Fleming (1992). “Goldfinger”, Chivers North Amer

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• Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

  Andrew Greeley

  Engagement, Behavior, Surveys

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