Human Behavior Quotes - Page 5

• Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Time, Powerful, Past

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• Love is a way of seeing and a way of being that honors God in everyone we meet. And it changes us in the most fundamental way. All we need to do is welcome the challenge of our relationships, training our eyes to look beyond human behavior to the Presence within. When we seek to live love, we discover through our interactions with others the divinity within ourselves.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Love, Eye, Interaction With Others

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• I have found in my experience that expediency, whether it is practical or not, is an unreliable guide for behavior. Human behavior must be guided by a higher principle. Practicality has its place but only within a framework of values, which all men of good will share.

  King Hussein I

  Men, Principles, Behavior

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• Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it.

  Nir Eyal

  Motivation, Two, Ease

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.9, Penguin

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• It's interesting that people who can perpetrate cons have talked themselves into believing that they're not doing anything bad. That they tell themselves that there is nothing wrong with what they're doing is the crazy thing about human behavior.

  Craig Zobel

  Crazy, Believe, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In Genesis, it is stated God walked on Earth. He was there on the level. After watching human behavior, he ascended having had enough of us and decided to watch over us instead.

  Bill Cosby

  Watches, Levels, Earth

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

  Amy Smart

  Acting, Study, Behavior

  Interview with Sabbott, www.ign.com. August 26, 2001.

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• Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human behavior and treat politics as if it were a pale imitation of the market, democracy will, indeed, make no sense.

  Paul Starr

  School, Rights, Choices

  "The Meaning Of Privatization". Yale Law & Policy Review, Volume 6, 1988.

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• The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Behavior, Contradiction, Humans

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• The vexing thing about human behavior is that when we say we know we should do something, we really and truly do know it. It's hard to be 50 lbs. overweight or smoke a pack a day or feel miserable every moment you spend at work and not understand in a deep and primal way that change is in order - and that in some cases it could even save your life.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Order, Way, Miserable

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• I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Love Life, Loving Life, Behavior

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• I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

  Ellie Goulding

  Attention, Pay, Behavior

  "Artist to Know: Ellie Goulding". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 6, 2011.

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• I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can apply this to anything, And figure out a way to reprogram yourself, to change your primal fear.

  Chris Hadfield

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Former ISS Commander Talks About Being Blind in Space" by Jon M. Chang, abcnews.go.com. March 18, 2014.

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• To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Long, Limits

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• I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

  Claire Danes

  Reading, Thinking, Empathy

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• Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

  Sidney Poitier

  Behavior, Despise, Humans

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• Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Positive, Truth, Special

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• I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

  Julia Stiles

  Analyzing, Behavior, Humans

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• A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.

  Michael Crichton

  Religious, Origin Of Life, Other Worlds

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• (There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their communities,...art that offers an alternative, that demonstrates human behavior that can become a model for creativity, cooperation, freedom and playfulness, and...art that in itself provides glimpses of a larger consciousness or reflects upon the inexplicable.

  Meredith Monk

  Art, Creativity, People

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• I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.

  Scoot McNairy

  Hands, Long, People

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2014.

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• To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Men, Hollywood

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• I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists in human behavior; if it exists out there then it can exist on the stage. I really try to go to a lot of concerts. A lot of live events. I just try to keep my ears really, really open.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Thinking, Trying, Events

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

  Douglas McGregor

  Goal, Behavior, Should

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• I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always a study of human behavior because if we just demonize it, it becomes unreal.

  Wendell Pierce

  Study, Behavior, Accepting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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