A Quote by A. E. van Vogt
My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.
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And, partly, I had found that theory-structure was a superpower in helping one get what one wanted. As I had early discovered in school wherein I had excelled without labor, guided by theory, while many others, without mastery of theory failed despite monstrous effort. Better theory I thought had always worked for me and, if now available could make me acquire capital and independence faster and better assist everything I loved.
Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.
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The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.
I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
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