Robert Ludlum Quotes

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

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

I'm curious about people, and I'm curious about getting to the root of where they might be coming from.

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

When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.

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

I have an inate curiosity about people.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

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'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

I've always read in order to figure out people more, and that includes bad people and good people.

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

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

I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on 'Mastermind'.

I understand and I don't understand human beings.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

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

I think that's the most important part of doing this job, is learning different personality types. I mean, it's kind of like sociology or psychology in a sense. With that, and with every project I do, I think I'm able to pull something away that further makes me understand humanity in a way I didn't before.