Behavior Quotes

People don’t know how to behave in public anymore. Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.

I’ve always seen “Survivor” as a reflection of our culture. That is a big part of what has kept me so wildly enthusiastic for 22 years. The game is the MacGuffin. It provides a framework that forces behavior from the players. That human behavior is what we’re after.

We work really hard to deliver a big, prime-time adventure show but with stories that often turn on tiny moments of human behavior. So, for all the talk of game design and twists and advantages, “Survivor” lives and dies with the people we put on the show.

I love people. I love human behavior. I am fascinated by our decision-making process, our ability to justify our ethics, and our resiliency. At my core, I am a writer first and I love being a part of telling these rich, layered stories of humans taking on a giant adventure and pushing themselves further than […]

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behavior.

I never did, or countenanced in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Behaviorism has substituted for the erstwhile anthropomorphic view of the rat a ratomorphic view of man.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.