Lisa Joy Quotes

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

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 think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.

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

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

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

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.

The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

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

We are a complex species to observe.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

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.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.