Human Behavior Quotes

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  Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

  Plato

  Plato, Desire, Three

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• Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.

  Joel Osteen

  Judging, People, Understanding

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• Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Behavior, Pleasure

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “Power, Freedom, and Grace: Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness”, p.118, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Hurt, Behavior, Humans

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2002). “What Happened to Lani Garver”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

  Dale Carnegie

  Men, People, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

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• The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Motivation, Important, Behavior

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• We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

  Bryan White

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

  Jacque Fresco

  Hate, Learning, Hatred

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• The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune. The fact that we can make disastrous decisions even as we foresee their consequences is the great, unsolved mystery of human behavior. When you hold your fate in your hands, why would you ever make a fist?

  Daniel Gilbert

  Fate, Hands, Decision

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• The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self Esteem, Keys, Behavior Change

  MAXWELL MALTZ, M.D.,F.I.C.S. (1960). “PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS”

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• Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

  Jacque Fresco

  Nature, Hate, Learning

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• What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe

  Thomas Gilovich

  Believe, Thinking

  Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Relationship, Spiritual

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• Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.

  Hubert Reeves

  God, Nature, Men

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• A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

  Albert Bandura

  Doe, Action, Behavior

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship

  Timothy Keller

  Behavior Change, Worship, Behavior

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• A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

  Joyce Brothers

  Positive, Inspiring, Strong

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang (p. 43), 2006.

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• I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.

  Ed Gass-Donnelly

  Two, People, Way

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Interesting, Humans

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.56, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, People, Choices

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• The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

  Dennis Prager

  Behavior, Explanation, Humans

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  Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Education, Wisdom

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.132, Ballantine Books

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• Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

  Albert Einstein

  Strength, Struggle, Animal

  Joseph Eger, Albert Einstein (2005). “Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change”, Tarcher

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• Human behavior is timeless.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Behavior, Timeless, Humans

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.100, Random House

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• All human behavior is either an act of love
  or a cry for love.

  Stan Dale

  Cry, Behavior, Acts Of Love

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