Michael Crichton Quotes

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'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

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.

I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

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.

I'm so fascinated with the study of people and why they are the way they are. That's my research and my archaeology, if you will, when I get a role. I'm so excited to attack a part from every angle of what makes a person a person.

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

What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

I just love thinking about what makes people tick

Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.

People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

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

I'm a problem solver. I love people. The more complicated they are, the more I get into them, and I just want to understand what makes them tick.

I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.

Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.

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

Oh, I'm a psychology nerd; I love to learn about why people behave the way they do, how experiences influence us.

That seems to be my superpower - really understanding what motivates people.

I'm actually interested in poor behavior. I'm interested in what drives people to poor behavior.