Sebastiao Salgado Quotes

I love observing people.

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 interested in social psychology and why certain groups of people do things while others don't.

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

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

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

It's not rocket science. It's social science.

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.

I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them.

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

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 started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.

Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people and their context, how they interact with each other in that context, and then how that context evolves based on those interactions as they multiply.

I assume that the proper study of interaction is not the individual and his psychology, but rather the syntactical relations among the acts of different persons mutually present to another.

You are not the same person working alone as you are in a group; in a romantic setting versus an educational one; when you are with close friends or in an anonymous crowd; or when you are traveling abroad as when at home base.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

Every time you enter into a job it's a whole new universe. There's a new language with a new power structure. If you are in an all Black cast its a different dynamic, the same with an all male cast or a crew that is mainly women.