Joseph Benavidez Quotes

We're only human beings and cannot always be in control of our lives.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.

Life is beautiful but people are crazy.

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.

There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.

What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.

I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many people who are obsessed about their career path, like it's something which you can control, which fundamentally you can't.

I trust people to be human. Sometimes you do things that make amazing amounts of sense; sometimes you do things that don't make any sense whatsoever.

I always feel like people in general are much weirder and insane than anybody really wants to admit. How dare somebody watch anything and go, 'That's not real!' Go on the subway. For five minutes.

The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been.

The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damned things take you.

I can't control how other people are going to react. I can't control what other people are going to say to me.

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

We have a choice every day to do whatever we do, and that choice is quite scary because it could absolutely change everything about our lives. It's important to keep reminding myself that I have a choice.

The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that is uncontrollable - some element of the world that is essentially random and out of control.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance of a compassionate life as opposed to a passionate life.