Quotes About Understanding Human Behavior

#1. The typical approach to understanding human behavior has always been to look for the average behavior or outcome.

Shawn Achor

#2. A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside people's minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting their patterns down so I know how to create the illusion that I get inside their brain.

Criss Angel

#3. To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.

Herbert A. Simon

#4. I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

Jim Morrison

#5. The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as wide a range of human behavior with some sense of understanding of that behavior or some clue to it.

Grace Zabriskie

#6. Literature recounts history, explores knowledge, narrates universal themes of human existence, actives human conscience, enhances understanding of human motives, and explicates the nuances of human behavior.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#7. He sucked in a deep breath, his eyes travelling back and forth between mine as he swiped his thumb across my bottom lip. His voice was husky when he spoke, The way you come is fucking devastating.

L. H. Cosway

#8. Hospitality is a word used to describe a human behavior that has the potential to bring about real-understanding among people who do not share a common faith or culture.

Martin E. Marty

#9. If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#10. When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.

Kevin Costner

#11. It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.

Josh Hartnett

#12. Will Human Nature destroy Nature and Humans?

Drats

#13. If we return to the roots of planning we see at its heart a desire to understand human behaviour and provide a robust model for influencing it. Rather than dismantling strategy into endless experimentation, we need a new way of understanding the world, a modern philosophy.

Faris Yakob

#14. Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.

Jane Goodall

#15. 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

#16. The voice is a second face.

Michael Gerard Bauer

#17. I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis.

Sarah Parcak

#18. The conviction grows in me that we shall discover laws of personality and behavior which are as significant for human progress or human understanding as the law of gravity or the laws of thermodynamics.

Carl R. Rogers

#19. Look, I need something-"
"Evidently."
"Don't get all British on me," I snapped as his accent went clipped. That usually precipitated a hissy fit, but I was already having one and we didn't get to do that at the same time.

Karen Chance

#20. Well, I guess I picked wrong then. Jesse doesn't like girls.

Holly Hood

#21. On production floors and in corporate offices, sociological verbiage has replaced a basic understanding of human behavior.

W. Edwards Deming

#22. One of the biggest lessons I learned from nearly dying of cancer is the importance of loving myself unconditionally. In fact, learning to love and accept myself unconditionally is what healed me and brought me back from the brink of death.

Anita Moorjani

#23. Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.

Bob Dylan