Steve Harvey Quotes

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

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

A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside people's minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting their patterns down so I know how to create the illusion that I get inside their brain.

I need to do psychology classes. That would be so interesting to me, studying people.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you're feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

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.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

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.

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.

I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being.

Study men, not historians.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do... For me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it's probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing.

How a character hides his feelings tells us something about him.