Human Behavior Quotes - Page 2

• So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Life, Self, People

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Understanding, Use

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• Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, World, Shapes

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.

  Albert Bandura

  Ideas, People, Would Be

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• Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

  Don Marquis

  Witty, Art, Procrastination

  archy and mehitabel (1927) "certain maxims of archy"

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• A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

  Joyce Brothers

  Self, Personality, Persons

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• It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.

  Viola Spolin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.50, Northwestern University Press

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• To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

  Howard Zinn

  Hope, Kindness, Future

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• I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

  Mean, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Looks, Needs, Culture

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1968). “The New Industrial State”

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• As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

  Georgette Heyer

  Temptation, Promise, Wish

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• I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Study, Realizing, Behavior

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me

  Christina Hendricks

  People, Watches, Able

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• The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

  Jeffrey Tate

  Music, Expression, Perfect

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• There are always patterns in everything, there are patterns in books, there are patterns in human behavior, there are patterns in success, there are patterns for everything in life. You just need to pay attention to them.

  Jordan Belfort

  Book, Needs, Attention

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• Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Behavior, Messy, Unpredictable

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.330, A&C Black

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• Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

  B. F. Skinner

  Art, Philosophy, War

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• Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Behavior, Plastic, Social Psychology

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• Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Powerful, Hero, Variables

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• Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Humanity, Monsters, Behavior

  Source: movieweb.com

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• People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

  Thomas Gilovich

  Black And White, People, Temptation

  Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.

  Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

  Love Is, Age, Obstacles

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• We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

  Graydon Carter

  Elephants, Self, Empathy

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• The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Faith, Men, People

  "Born of God". Ezra Taft Benson's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 1985.

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• Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

  Jane Goodall

  Looks, World, Behavior

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