Human Behavior Quotes - Page 7

• That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Religious, Training, Moral

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• I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

  Craig Newmark

  Want, Normal, Moments

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• I think The Room is something magnetic, a certain magnetism in The Room that is related to human behavior, and that's why people relate to it.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Thinking, People, Rooms

  "The Room's producer/writer/director/lead actor/short-range tuxedo footballer Tommy Wiseau". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 26, 2009.

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• If we studied human beings which can include human genes, human blood samples, and human behavior, then you can leave the animals out of the labs and you can leave them off your plate.

  Neal Barnard

  Animal, Blood, Labs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

  George Carlin

  Kids, Thoughtful, Wife

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• Why I'm interested in filmmaking is because a moving image is very, very powerful when it comes to changing human behavior.

  Ruben Ostlund

  Powerful, Moving, Behavior

  Source: collider.com

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• Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Desire, Economics, Behavior

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• Economics has increasingly become the science of human behavior in general, and it's all the more unlikely to think that it can possibly be value-free - and, in fact, it isn't. Economics rests on un-argued assumptions that need to be examined.

  Michael Sandel

  Thinking, Assumption, Behavior

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.

  Tom Hanks

  Mirrors, Examination, Celebration

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• I don't think there's one right way to do anything. There's no one best way to be a woman. There's no best way to be a mentor. I'm just trying to be me and be authentic and live my truth and be as inclusive and interested in other human beings as possible. I'm an actor by training, which means that I study human beings and human behavior. That's what I try to do and what I love to do.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Mean, Thinking, Training

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms and unconscious reactions. But it has told us nothing about the reflexes that have built cathedrals, railroads, and fortresses, the instincts that have produced philosophies, poems, and legal systems, the automatisms that have resulted in the growth and decline of empires, the unconscious reactions that are splitting atoms.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Animal, Psychology

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• It's always important for me as an actor to reflect human behavior for a sense of reality.

  John Spencer

  Reality, Important, Actors

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• [Kurt] Vonnegut once said, if you ever want to know who somebody is... Like you look at Richard Nixon, or Adolf Hitler, or Ralph Nader, or anybody who seems like a difficult person to understand, and is therefore not part of the pattern of human behavior. Think about who they were in high school, and they will explain themselves to you. So we got a hold of, like, 50 high-school yearbooks, including my mom's from 1925 or something, and we discovered that they're all the same.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mom, School, Yearbook

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Thinking, Capacity To Love

  Redbook Magazine, 1975.

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• Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.

  Baker Brownell

  Art, Communication, Mean

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• We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Spiritual, Play, World

  "Buzz Aldrin: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 25, 2012.

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• You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even if we abolish war, we shall not abolish hate and greed. So might it have been argued about slave emancipation, that slavery was but one aspect of human disgustingness, and that to abolish it would not end the barbarity that causes it. But did the abolitionists therefore waste their breath? And do we waste ours now in protesting against war?

  Rose Macaulay

  Hate, War, Greed

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• I guess what I get excited about when I'm thinking about projects is that toothy, complex area of goodness and badness and the gray areas of human behavior and existence.

  Liz Garbus

  Thinking, Excited, Behavior

  "Being Nina Simone". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 25, 2015.

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• To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help. But when the incentive level is very high, it can command too much attention and thereby distract the person’s mind with thoughts about the reward. This can create stress and ultimately reduce the level of performance.

  Dan Ariely

  Stress, People, Mind

  Dr. Dan Ariely (2010). “The Upside of Irrationality (Enhanced Edition): The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

  E. M. Forster

  Suicide, Lying, Feelings

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.275, 谷月社

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• but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

  John Irving

  Behavior, Ruthless, Humans

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  May, Influence, Environment

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• I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature

  Christopher Meloni

  Dark, Thinking, Issues

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• Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Angel, Nuts, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

  John Banville

  Ideas, Behavior, Exciting

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