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Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic. -- Philip Zimbardo
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. -- Plato
The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior. -- Dennis Prager
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge. -- Philip Zimbardo
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived. -- John Boorman
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
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
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 them puts on display the very worst of human behavior. -- Graydon Carter
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed. -- Amy Waldman
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women. -- Stephen Hawking
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. -- Don Marquis
Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures. -- Sidney Poitier
a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past. -- Orson Scott Card
Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it. -- Yasuhiro Konishi
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. -- John Oliver
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. -- Joan D. Vinge
Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior. -- J. J. Abrams
Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive. -- Jane Goodall
I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me. -- Ellie Goulding
Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. -- Ezra Taft Benson
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior. -- Albert Bandura
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
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
We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior. -- Jerry Springer
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
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training. -- Philip Zimbardo
Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions. -- Tess Gerritsen
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
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. -- Laurence D. Fink
I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior. -- William Friedkin
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
One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists. -- Frans de Waal
Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur. -- Jacque Fresco
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
One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at patterns of human behavior. We used it there to predict when people would try to cheat the system to get money. But you can predict pretty much any behavior with a certain amount of accuracy. -- Max Levchin
I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of a father who plots to have his own son put to death is presented to children as beautiful and as worthy of society's admiration, what types of human behavior can be presented to them as reprehensible? -- Ruth Hurmence Green
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass. -- Jim Harrison
When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information -- Thomas Gilovich
Human behavior is timeless. -- Barbara Tuchman
Human action is purposeful behavior. -- Ludwig von Mises
Stone tools are fossilized human behavior. -- Louis Leakey
you can't use logic on human behavior. -- Jeff Lindsay
The basis of all good human behavior is kindness. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior. -- Douglas McGregor
Jealousy is a general human behavior, Until it's not changed. -- Srishtie
Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries. -- Khaled Hosseini
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. -- Jeffrey Tate
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. -- Claire Danes
As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions. -- Juliet Marillier
Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large. -- Frank Spotnitz
The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation. -- Milton H. Erickson
Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior. -- Naoto Fukasawa
I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going. -- Julia Stiles
All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem. -- Michael Crichton
What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals? -- Douglas Coupland
Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior. -- Ellis Paul Torrance
The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior. -- Stephen Hawking
I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
If you can understand human behavior, it canâ??t hurt you nearly as much. -- Carol Plum-Ucci
All human behavior is either an act of love or a cry for love. -- Stan Dale
Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration. -- Tom Hanks
I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior. -- Robert Ludlum
I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part. -- John Banville
I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior. -- Craig Newmark
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior. -- John Irving
I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work. -- Joseph Fiennes
I'm very interested in animal behavior, and the relationship of human beings to other animal behavior. -- Lynne Tillman
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure. -- Deepak Chopra
My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior. -- A. E. van Vogt
This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior. -- Angelina Jolie
Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me. -- Amy Smart
I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well. -- Scoot McNairy
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. -- Aldous Huxley
Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem! -- Steven Pinker
None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior... -- James Thayer
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. -- Mary McCarthy
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. -- Harry Allen Overstreet
It's always important for me as an actor to reflect human behavior for a sense of reality. -- John Spencer
Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification. -- Morton Irving Seiden
Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. -- Hermann Hesse
I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular. -- Errol Morris
There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it. -- Simon Sinek
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort. -- Andrew Greeley
To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic. -- Albert Ellis
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior. -- Margaret Mead
Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price. -- Michael Joseph Oakeshott
The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior -- Dennis Prager
Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed. -- Anita Brookner
The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions. -- Seth Klarman
To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational. -- William Faulkner
Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being. -- Anthony Biglan
Why I'm interested in filmmaking is because a moving image is very, very powerful when it comes to changing human behavior. -- Ruben Ostlund
Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens! -- Lucille Kallen
The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages. -- Mahmoud Mohammed Taha
The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior. -- Ann Dowd
A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe. -- Richard B. Spence
Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it. -- Stephen A. Diamond
Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study. -- Leonard Nimoy
Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil. -- Dan Simmons
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words. -- Wally Lamb
Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior. -- Tim Robbins
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. -- J. D. Salinger
Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher. -- Christopher McDougall
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
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature. -- Sam Yagan
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life. -- Sigmund Freud
I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy. -- Dane Cook
The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful. -- Brian Tracy
Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance. -- Lewis B. Smedes
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction. -- Robert A. Heinlein
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. -- Fred Woodworth
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 ways. -- William Hardy McNeill
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people. -- Andre Norton
I think The Room is something magnetic, a certain magnetism in The Room that is related to human behavior, and that's why people relate to it -- Tommy Wiseau
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare. -- Jane Goodall
As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. -- Stephen Covey

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