Human behavior Quotes · Page 2

Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.

— Louis Leakey

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

— Albert Einstein

“General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.”

— Jane Austen

I'm obsessed with people, I'm obsessed with human behavior. I just watch people.

— Zoya Akhtar

Stereotyping is taking a universal human behavior and applying it to a specific social group.

— Anonymous

I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.

— Patricia Arquette

There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

— Simon Sinek

Metamorphosis do not happens overnight, but the changes of human behavior in a moment.

— Mak_786

“Any human action that goes against what is ordinary, is deemed as an anomaly.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little…

— Tom Stoppard

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

We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, 'Ooh, we're having a water crisis.' This is…

— Mae Jemison

“... but I couldn't quite believe that sex was the motivating force behind all human behavior, and that I was left out…

— Carlene Bauer

“Billions are spent for neurophysiological research to control human behavior, he reflected. Beauty shops would be cheaper.”

— Lilian Jackson Braun

The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.

— Marianne Williamson

The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

— Dennis Prager

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

— Jane Goodall

I'm interested in human behavior, and what happened in my family life is definitely not a unique story. There are aspects of…

— Charlize Theron

“The Christian ethic is based on an antithesis between what is and what ought to be. We view the world as fallen;…

— R.C. Sproul

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The…

— Jim Harrison

“We’re used to the film versions of psychopaths. The clearly crazies. But most psychopaths are clever. They have to be. They know…

— Louise Penny

“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

“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

“You love somebody. Do you? What is love? You think you have everything, but you don’t have anything. You have to have…

— Greg Sestero

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there…

— Stephen Hawking

“Like begets like," observes Professor Overstreet in Influencing Human Behavior. "If we are interested in our audience, there is a likelihood that…

— Anonymous

“The Sapiens Experiment (A Sonnet) If knowledge is power, Love is superpower. If curiosity is a gift, Compassion is a trove of…

— Abhijit Naskar

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

“After examining the philosophies, the theories, and the practiced methods of influencing human behavior, I was shocked to learn the simplicity of…

— Shad Helmstetter

“For me, all those systematic Bureaucracies of traditional schools jaded me. For me, I still couldn’t understand why we have to have…

— Neda Aria

“Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors. If you take a closer look,…

— Abhijit Naskar

“There is a theory about human behavior called the 10-80-10 principle. I speak of it often when I talk to corporate groups…

— Urban Meyer

“Every morning I wake up to have the same hope, that mankind had survived its own greed, its own desire to self-destruct,…

— Husam Wafaei

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

— John Irving

People who discriminate doesn't understand that they are a stranger to others.

— Jestoni Revealed

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

— George Eliot

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

— John Banville

“Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences.”

— Stephanie M. Sellers

Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.

— Jeff Lindsay

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.

— Milton H. Erickson