Human Behavior Quotes

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
Johnny Depp

Human, Strange, Behavior

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato

Knowledge, Human, Desire

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
Maxwell Maltz

Change, Human, Self

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
David Letterman

Good, Courage, Human

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

Human, Rather, Behavior

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
Wally Lamb

Human, Words, Attention

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.
Dennis Prager

Human, Single, Left

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.
Dennis Prager

Good, Evil, Human

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

Human, Behavior, Complex

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

Human, Attention, Quite

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

Powerful, Human, Behavior

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

Nature, Human, Dark

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

Life, Change, Work

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.
Jane Goodall

History, War, Human

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

Human, Around, Behavior

A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.
Will Wright

Human, Within, Behavior

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.
J. J. Abrams

Human, Beginning, Behavior

I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what you should do and shouldn't do. This is what's exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we're actually acting them out in front of cameras.
Ron Perlman

Human, Philosophy, Different

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
Josef Albers

Art, Science, Today

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.
Philip Zimbardo

Human, Behavior, Plastic

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, Human

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
Scarlett Johansson

Funny, History, Movies

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.
Robert De Niro

Life, Human, Real

A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside people's minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting their patterns down so I know how to create the illusion that I get inside their brain.
Criss Angel

Human, Brain, Down

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
Mary McCarthy

Human, Whole, Makes

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

Time, Human, Same

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.
Andrew Greeley

Human, Everyone, Makes

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.
Jonathan Miller

Time, Human, Trying

In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans.
Jane D. Hull

Best, Human, Single

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.
David E. Kelley

Best, Human, Law

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