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There's only a casual relationship between human behavior and logic. — Philip Houston

Costs rationalize decisions. — Kirk Mahoney

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

Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences. — Stephanie M. Sellers

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. — Harry Allen Overstreet

What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe — Thomas Gilovich

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

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior. — Maxwell Maltz

We all are actors. The moment we step out of our comfort zones, the moment we are interacting with another, the actor in us comes alive. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

What sets our species apart is not just what men will do to other men, but how tirelessly they justify it. — William Dietrich

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life. — Sigmund Freud

Human behavior is timeless. — Barbara Tuchman

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior. — Douglas McGregor

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

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic. — Philip G. Zimbardo

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior. — Tim Robbins

People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it. — Abhijit Naskar

Humans can be as good as they can be bad. Because goodness and evil both are biological traits of the mind. — Abhijit Naskar

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

Sometimes you control your demons and sometimes it controls you. — J. Limbu

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday — Don Marquis

This is an encounter between the human and the non-human, it is something like a behavior of the world. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

The human mind is capable of rationalizing any behavior. — Michael Bunker

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

The more fundamentalist a person, the more immoral and inhuman he is. — Abhijit Naskar

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

Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood. — Abhijit Naskar

If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex. — Abhijit Naskar

I believe the most useful knowledge about human behavior is based on people's lived experiences. — Brene Brown

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed. — Anita Brookner

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

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality. — Joyce Brothers

The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love. — Marianne Williamson

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

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

Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts. — Chuck Palahniuk

Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little laugh. It's like a reflex. — Tom Stoppard

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior. — A.E. Van Vogt

A lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past. — Orson Scott Card

Economists and psychologists get confused when they are asked 'out of syllabus' questions by life! — Saurabh Sharma

Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What had been a perceived threat, a lien in a sense on future human behavior, was quickly reduced to a historical curiosity. — Arthur C. Clarke

On production floors and in corporate offices, sociological verbiage has replaced a basic understanding of human behavior. — W. Edwards Deming

Human behavior is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable. — Patrick White

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

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life. — Robert De Niro

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

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

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

The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either. — Tiffany Madison

Pain explains a great deal of human conduct, but the fear of pain even more. — Neil Abramson

The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe. — Valerie Tarico

For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe this?", but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, "Must I believe this? — Thomas Gilovich

Human mind & news Media work on the same principle: Unsatisfied with the past; worried about future; ignorant about the present moment. — Saurabh Sharma

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

Thought training and behavior shaping! These methods are not for the human realm! Ach, we're not animal trainers!" "Yes, — Irvin D. Yalom

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

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

Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher. — Christopher McDougall

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages. — Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

Love and Divinity are both gifts from Nature, fraught with the highest bliss. — Abhijit Naskar

Individual human experience is not the overriding control factor in human behavior. The cellular social pattern dominates. — Frank Herbert

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake. — Corinne Maier

If you do not consider the man before you to be human, there are few restraints of conscience on your behavior towards him. — Paul Auster

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil. — Dan Simmons

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. — Dane Cook

The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior. — Sam Harris

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

General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be. — Jane Austen

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior. — J.J. Abrams

Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it. — Yasuhiro Konishi

I want to study human... madness... cruelty... agression... anger... craziness... and other features... I want to find how far can they get! — Deyth Banger

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. — John Oliver

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort. — Andrew Greeley

Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway. — Anne Heche

There is nothing so unsure as the plans we make that rely on the sensible behavior of another human being. — Steven Saylor

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior. — Joyce Carol Oates

What is a truth and what is a lie? Is truth the mutually accepted part of a lie, or is lie a mutually denied part of truth? — Saurabh Sharma

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

The typical approach to understanding human behavior has always been to look for the average behavior or outcome. — Shawn Achor

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

If you can understand human behavior, it can't hurt you nearly as much. — Carol Plum-Ucci

complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder. — Jon Ronson

Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior. — Naoto Fukasawa

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

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

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

It's not that people are mean to each other; it's just that they haven't forgotten the times when being selfless brought them loneliness & pain. — Saurabh Sharma

Human action is purposeful behavior. — Ludwig Von Mises

Tricked by desire, mastered by love, rescued by beloved!
What else you want to know about humans? — Saurabh Sharma

One of the best ways to change human behavior is to gather people with similar problems together. — Anonymous

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. — Stephen R. Covey

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior. — Jerry Springer

A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe. — Richard B. Spence

Every human behavior can be explained by what precedes it, but that does not excuse it, — Gavin De Becker

I never listen to what a person says. I look at what a person does because what they do tells me who they really are. — Patty Houser

My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious. — Amy Bloom

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

But writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior. — John Irving

A Woman who let out a Sigh Outside a Mansion, should Never ask her Husband Why He Works Late — Vineet Raj Kapoor