Human Behavior Quotes

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.

Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.

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.

What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.

Human behavior is timeless.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

All human behavior is either an act of love or a cry for love.

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 so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature

It's always important for me as an actor to reflect human behavior for a sense of reality.

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.

I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

In Genesis, it is stated God walked on Earth. He was there on the level. After watching human behavior, he ascended having had enough of us and decided to watch over us instead.

I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

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

What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

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.

None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.

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

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.

I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always a study of human behavior because if we just demonize it, it becomes unreal.

To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

I'm just attracted to human behavior and how people sometimes never would interact with one another or be in each other's sphere of awareness.

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.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

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

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.

Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.

In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.

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.