Plato Quotes

The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make - and that has to always be plot driven.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.

I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.

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

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

When you start to think about the drives that humans have, I think sometimes we find we are simpler than we thought and more easily manipulated.

I still ponder what gets in people's minds and souls, why they do the things they do.

The way you think influences the way you feel, and the way you feel determines how you act.

I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do.

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

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

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.

There's no map to human behaviour.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?