Anatoly Dobrynin Quotes

I love observing people.

I'm interested in character and people and motivations and things like that.

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.

And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

I'm just totally fascinated by people.

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me.

Men are awesome, but they're pretty easy to figure out; women are way more complicated, and way more interesting.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

To the extent that we have a better understanding of the brain, we will have a richer appreciation of ourselves, of our fellow men and of society and, in fact, of the whole world and its problems.

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

At any rate, your contempt for your fellow human beings does not prevent you ... from trying to win their respect.

I used to make my living by understanding people. And the way I learned to understand them was by observing them. I would sit in a train station or a bus station or a restaurant. And I would watch people. I would watch how they related to one another. I would try to get some insight into them and make them as predictable as I could in my mind.

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

When we describe human relations, we usually make them better than they are: gentle, peaceful, and so forth, whereas in reality, they are often competitive.

I'm someone who likes to explore the complexities in people.

I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do.

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