Bjork Quotes

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

We are a complex species to observe.

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

I'm just totally fascinated by people.

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 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.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

You meet people, and you're like, 'I don't know how I feel about you,' and someone does something surprising that changes your mind. We're interesting creatures; we're nuanced, complicated and layered, and we make all sorts of choices.

I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

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

Who knows why men do anything?

It's very hard to predict what people are thinking.

Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.