Nuno Bettencourt Quotes

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.

I'm definitely an observer of human behavior. I always have been.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

How can one know anything at all about people?

I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

I think creative people need to do a bit of, you know, tuning into every radio station - you just do, otherwise you don't know much about other people. You kind of have to learn a bit about yourself so you can work out how we all behave and why we do the things we do.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

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

You are affected by the surroundings, the mood of people, by confidence. I am no different.

It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

I don't take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are.

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.

I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.

I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.