That’s human nature – the ups and downs.
The longer you remain silent, the longer you don’t turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you’re withholding something. That’s human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that’s a common sense presumption.
It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.
It’s human nature to make the complex manageable and determine things that fit your conclusions. That’s bias.
People want to learn how other people live. It’s just human nature.
Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain.
It’s human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn’t make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you’re doing something extremely small – a locked room-style story.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Half the time, when I first run onstage, I can’t look directly at the audience just because of self-consciousness. It’s human nature. Sometimes you feel like the man, and sometimes you don’t. But sometimes that self-conscious energy is good for the show, it draws people in more.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.
I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
I meet people in my business who have this extraordinary ability to understand human nature in their work, but in real life, they don’t seem to have the first clue.
I must not permit the evil capabilities of human nature to sour my faith in the tremendous good that is possible despite the frailty of that nature.
Being honest to who I am led me to write ‘If Our Love Is Wrong,’ and that allowed me to fully realize the direction I should be heading to – human nature, real emotions, and issues about LGBT.
I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It’s a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
When you’re writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can’t go. You can’t suppose. You can’t imagine. And I think there’s something in human nature that wants to finish the story.
If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
My fascination is not for cinema; it’s for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.
But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.
Wouldn’t it be nice if human nature could learn stuff before we get to the brink? It seems we have to experience it first.
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.
It’s a simple quality of human nature that people prefer to choose to do things rather than be ordered to do them. In fact, as soon as you tell me I have to do something – give a speech, attend a banquet, go to Cannes – I immediately start looking for ways to avoid doing it.
Everywhere you turn, there are lists and statistics. Any business, any sport, any hobby – we will try to categorize who is the best at some component of that endeavor. It’s part human nature and part technology, since we have been conditioned to have access to answers and trivial problems at our fingertips.
Envy is human nature.
