Human Behavior Quotes - Page 6

• Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is correct about 80% of the time.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Self, Important, Fundamentals

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• If you are referring to the characters of The Room, each character has a different personality which you can see very clearly on the screen. If you are referring to the actors, they give me different emotions, personality which represents human behavior.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Character, Giving, Personality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I'm interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is kind of a political thing, I admit that. But it's what I'm interested in, and it's how I believe human behavior is legible.

  Dana Spiotta

  Believe, Writing, Character

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. Just to answer the question why does not say I'm validating behavior. I'm just saying, if we're going to be a student of human behavior, be a true student.

  Wendell Pierce

  Mad, Trying, Abhorrent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

  Scoot McNairy

  Thinking, Acting, Tunes

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

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• The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of you once learned as gospel from your mistaken professors of yore. Your mistaken professors were too much influenced by "rational man" models of human behavior from economics and too little by "foolish man" models from psychology and real-world experience.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Men, Foolish Man

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• I'm interested in human behavior, and what happened in my family life is definitely not a unique story. There are aspects of that I'm sure you can see through the work. But I'm just looking for something that touches me.

  Charlize Theron

  Unique, Stories, Life Is

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I love to be on board. I think anything that resonates with history, as does The Jungle Book and Watership Down, reflects patterns of behavior, power struggles, deprivation, migration, survival, joy, love, betrayal, and all of these things. It's tragic that children are encouraged to ignore history. We ignore history and any literature that is historically based in history. Even though both of those films involved animals, of course they reflect human behavior.

  Ben Kingsley

  Betrayal, Children, Struggle

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.

  Stephen Colbert

  Different, Politician, Behavior

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Advertising is not intended to brainwash you and make you go out and buy something; that's a real simple-minded way of criticizing it. I think advertising is just designed to make you familiar with this thing, so when you go to the store... Humans like to choose things that are familiar to them; it's just normal human behavior. So I think that when you go to the store, if your brain has been hit enough times with a certain product name, you're more likely, when you're thinking, "Which tennis shoe should I buy?," to say, "Ummm... Nike."

  Mark Hosler

  Nike, Real, Simple

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm interested in history because it's a discipline that requires a lot of effort from the imagination. You need to put in a lot of imaginative effort to figure out how people lived in an era that is not yours. And in that understanding of people from a different era, I feel, is an important gateway into humanity. Because you understand human behavior. In order to understand humanity, history is important.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Order, Discipline, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that we have basically nothing in the field of human behavior. Maybe that is just a condition of temporary ignorance. But it may be that we are simply not intellectually equipped to develop such a theory.

  Noam Chomsky

  Ignorance, Thinking, May

  Source: chomsky.info

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• In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But then major sort of problems actually they're due to a lack of moral principle.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Mind, Principles

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• One thing that I learned that helped me deal with human behavior is confrontation, and I'm not that great with confrontation at all. But once I started to be O.K. with that, the better everybody's life got.

  Kenny Chesney

  Behavior, Confrontation, Deals

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• When J.J. [Abrams] called Lisa [Joy] and myself, he pitched us this idea of, what if we turn the structure around and started with the hosts. For us, that gave us a way to play with everything that we're interested in, all at once. It's the ultimate playground for us because we deal with questions about artificial intelligence, which is something I've long been fascinated by, but also human intelligence, or the lack thereof, human behavior, and interactive, immersive storytelling.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Play, Ideas, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I'm an actor, and I think that there are a lot of dangerous misconceptions about mental illness in our society, and I would like to be a part of remedying that - particularly the stigma that surrounds so many mental illnesses.

  Laura Benanti

  Thinking, Actors, Our Society

  "Laura Benanti used to tell kids she was an Indian princess". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. February 22, 2016.

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• None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.

  James Thayer

  Sage, Behavior, China

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• My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained in a behaviorist approach to psychology which - whatever its limitations - at least taught me to see human behavior in its social context).

  Richard Bentall

  Suicide, Brother, Psychosis

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I'm just attracted to human behavior and how people sometimes never would interact with one another or be in each other's sphere of awareness.

  Da'Vine Joy Randolph

  People, Spheres, Sometimes

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Thinking, Medicine, Stories

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• ... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Differences, Variation, Facts

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

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• The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter of being coy, or withholding information. It's allowing for multiple possibilities, recognizing the complexity of human behavior, and making the world of a piece of fiction as marvelously confounding as the world we live in.

  Peter Turchi

  Writing, Keys, Fiction

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• Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Selfish, Evil, Behavior

  "Crime and Punishment". www.nytimes.com. September 19, 1999.

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• The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

  Margaret Mead

  Thinking, Normal, Behavior

  Redbook magazine, 1975.

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• In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Thinking, Feelings

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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