“Every human behavior can be explained by what precedes it, but that does not excuse it,” — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation. — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part. — John Banville Copy Share Image
“two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.” — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior. — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Metamorphosis do not happens overnight, but the changes of human behavior in a moment. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
People who discriminate doesn't understand that they are a stranger to others. — Jestoni Revealed Copy Share Image
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort. — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
“Naskar's Razor: When more than one course of action are possible, most humane course is the correct course of action, even if… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between Homo Sapiens and Human - Homo Sapiens is a meaningless technicality, Human is a lived promise.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It is ok to not be ok. Yes, but it is not ok to feel ok about it, and definitely it is… — Cindrella Copy Share Image
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Aggression in a dog is similar to aggression in a human. We re both scared of what we don't understand, and our… — Andre Gatling Copy Share Image
“Effective communication is shaped by human nature and is subject to the complexities, inconsistencies, and particularities which characterize human behavior. Since communication… — Helio Fred Garcia Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon.… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
“it’s human behavior, human social behavior, and in many cases abnormal human social behavior. And it is indeed a mess, a subject… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
“In the light of what we have recently learned about animal behavior in general, and human behavior in particular, it has become… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“After examining the philosophies, the theories, and the practiced methods of influencing human behavior, I was shocked to learn the simplicity of… — Shad Helmstetter Copy Share Image
I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
When J.J. [Abrams] called Lisa [Joy] and myself, he pitched us this idea of, what if we turn the structure around and… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
“Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The language of mathematics differs from that of everyday life, because it is essentially a rationally planned language. The languages of size… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
“Insight 1: Human decision making serves evolutionary goals. The traditional way of thinking about human behavior is based almost completely on a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Any human action that goes against what is ordinary, is deemed as an anomaly.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder.” — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image