Human Behaviour Quotes - Page 2

• I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

  Gary Becker

  Understanding, Behaviour, Economics

  Gary Stanley Becker, Ramón Febrero, Pedro Schwartz (1995). “The essence of Becker”, Hoover Inst Pr

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• Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.

  Amartya Sen

  Challenges, Inspire, Attention

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• Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

  Jorge Garcia

  Reality, People, Mixing

  "Jorge Garcia, the one-man Greek chorus who helped explain Lost" by Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour

  Laura Dern

  Behaviour, Courageous, Humans

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• The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the problems of delivering and assimilating new technology into the workplace, we must look to the way humans act and react. In the last 20 years, US industry has invested more than $1 trillion in technology, but has realised little improvement in the efficiency of its knowledge workers ­ and virtually none in their effectiveness. If we could solve the problems of the assimilation of new technology, the potential would be enormous.

  John Seely Brown

  Successful, Technology, Effectiveness

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• If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Past, Perspective, Evil

  "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

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• Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Moving, Always Trying, People

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• There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

  Neil Peart

  Fighting, Ideas, People

  "Q and A with Neil Peart of Rush". Interview with Mike Doherty, www.macleans.ca. August 13, 2012.

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• There's no map to human behaviour.

  Bjork

  Behaviour, Maps, Humans

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