Dan Ariely Quotes

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

I like stories with lots of psychology.

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

Traits don't change, states of mind do.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.

Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

We are creatures of story.

I love the ordered mind of history because it takes us out of the chaos, momentarily, and says, "Ah, so this is the story we are engaged in."

Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it - and what other things you don't hear - you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.