Graham Joyce Quotes

I've always been genuinely interested in the spirit world. I've seen things I will never talk about because I'd be a fool to. You can't lay out that world in words.

It's my job to look at other people's humanity and it's my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces, the little idiosyncratic aspects of human beings - it's like a sponge, I take it in.

Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one.

She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,” I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn’t thought he’d be a moviegoer.

You're always running into people's unconscious.

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.

If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.

I guess there were fewer differences between me and social psychologists than between me and other people in general

I've never really been into ghosts or spirits, and I've only had a couple of those kind of experiences.

I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all

I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations.

People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is known as the Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle principle.

Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events.

In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by a bunch of good people, pitted against an evil-producing situation. The question is, does the goodness of the people overwhelm the bad situation, or does the bad situation overwhelm the good people?

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

I think that as human beings, we quite naturally take for granted what is similar among human beings and, then, pay attention to what differentiates us. That makes perfect sense for us as human beings.

People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.

the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

Chat to the ghosts! That's what I do!

I love to kind of people watch; that's part of what I do as an actor and creative person and sort of step back and watch others.

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

Sometimes people's reactions tell more about themselves.

If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.