Top 1200 Human Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Tastes and behavior are important in economics. Nobody denies that. But the question is: How much of behavior is irrational, and how much of the irrational behavior really affects prices? It turns out that's very difficult to answer.

Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior-like the deepest capacities for emotional respone which drive and guide it-is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact.

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.

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

They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

I'm definitely an observer of human behavior. I always have been.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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

Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.

Most human beings, there's a spectrum of bad behavior.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

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

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.

I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.

but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

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

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

Entitlement is just the grossest kind of human behavior.

I love looking at machines that mimic human behavior.

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

Once you realize there's less logic in human institutions than you once thought, you see the narrative potential in just about everything around you. Sometimes, in fact, it seems as if the human world runs on inefficiency and erratic behavior.

When our embassy is attacked in Benghazi by terrorists and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Russia invades Ukraine and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Syria crosses the red line and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Iran launches tests of ballistic missiles and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When North Korea attacks Sony Pictures and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. In other words, Mrs. Clinton, you cannot lead from behind. We must respond when we are attacked or provoked.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

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

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

Anger management (which is a part of both public displays of rage and spouse abuse) is about changing a person's internal reactions to events (how they see their behavior) by changing the support environment for the behavior (making them see the behavior is wrong).

As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.

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

Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as a guiding principle both in social theory and as a basis for human behavior. Such a development when it occurs will alter the course of human history.

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

When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is their mental conditioning, their patterns of behavior and so on. And then, there is a deeper level to every human being that transcends all of that. I can only sense that in another human being and relate to another human being on that deeper level if I have gone deep enough within myself.

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

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

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

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

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

If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

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

The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!

Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

Most efforts to approximate normal human behavior in software tend to be creepy or annoying.

Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.

If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation. Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated and must not be condemned by genetic speculation.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all human culture as we know it. But the separation of the teacher's role from the role of all adults who inducted the young into the habitual behavior of the group, was a comparatively late invention. Furthermore, when we do find explicit and defined teaching, in primitive societies we find it tied in with a sense of the rareness or the precariousness of some human tradition.