Ruth Rendell Quotes

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

I've studied human psychology my whole life.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

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

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing.

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.

I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

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

I studied psychology in school, and I learned how to understand people's feelings, how to get along with people and relate to people.

I Iike listening to people talking. I'm really interested in people's lives and what makes us work, what makes us weak, at times, and things that can make us stronger.

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

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

If you don't understand people, you don't understand business.