Brigham Young Quotes

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time.

I've always been curious in why different people believe the things they do and do the things they do - in the different ways that people live.

I think what Obama does more than his amazing speaking ability is he's able to connect with voters. And it's that hope that he brings out in American citizens that we are all hungry for, that people get excited about Sen. Obama.

People respond to vision, not need.

...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.

People readily believe what they want to believe.

People who think that they are being 'exploited' should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: 'Good riddance?'

I am more interested in what moves people, than how they move.

I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

People are motivated by fear, but they are not inspired by it. Everything that inspires us comes from love.

I think a lot of people feel like they still have something to prove, because when you get in and you're chasing success, you always feel like you have something to prove. But at this point, I feel like an underdog, and I actually like being in that position.

People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.

I think subconsciously or selfishly I knew that I was supposed to do something. It was like a thumping or a throbbing saying, "Yes, this what you've been waiting for." But you're a little dim to those spiritual thoughts when you're dumb like me. So I did have to get a little bit of a kick. I played it for a bunch of people and I think their reactions were warm and deep enough that they gave me the courage to get [the record] out there.

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.

I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unless it's absolutely terrifying to me.

It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

I think The Room is something magnetic, a certain magnetism in The Room that is related to human behavior, and that's why people relate to it.

My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

I think it's never mono-causal why you fall in love with something that you want to do.

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?