Behavioural Psychology Quotes

#1. The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.

Niall Ferguson

#2. Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.

Socrates

#3. I don't want tea, I want justice!

Ally Carter

#4. People may chuckle appreciatively at a male turkey that tries to mate with a poor rendition of a female's [suspended] head, but if you then point out that many a human male regularly gets aroused after looking at two-dimensional representations of a nude woman, they don't see the connection.

Robert Wright

#5. He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

Vance Havner

#7. Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.

Evan Davis

#8. People tend to over react on situations to have a bigger and better story to tell, thus receiving more attention.

Johan Coetzer

#9. Nobody wants trouble,' said Chandni. 'Trouble just find us.

Philip Reeve

#10. He can't keep it in his pants for a few months?" "He's twenty-two and full-blooded Italian," Romeo reminded Clay, thinking it was obvious. "No, he can't.

Kele Moon

#11. This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

Dante Alighieri

#12. I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money.

Melissa Auf Der Maur

#13. Never apologize for what you feel. It's like being sorry for being real.

Lil' Wayne

#14. Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#15. She told herself that life is short. This didn't mean that nothing mattered, only that when strange things happened there was often no turning back.

Luke Davies

#16. Emotions of every color create the rich work of art that is life.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#17. Sex, yes; sexism, no.

Ira Levin

#18. Make your upper limit, no limit.

Ron Kaufman