Human Behavior Quotes

159 quotes by 139 authors

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part. — John Banville
Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. — Ezra Taft Benson
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… — Josef Albers
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat… — Graydon Carter
I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can apply this to anything, And… — Chris Hadfield
I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work. — Joseph Fiennes
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words. — Wally Lamb
The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the… — E. O. Wilson
Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In… — Charley Reese
The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising… — William Hardy McNeill
The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions. — Seth Klarman
Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior. — Naoto Fukasawa
I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always… — Christina Hendricks
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… — Christopher Meloni
In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing. — Pauley Perrette
Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice… — D. Todd Christofferson
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. — Jeffrey Tate
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior. — Albert Bandura
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them… — Albert Bandura
My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior. — A. E. van Vogt

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