"People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life."

-- David Cobley

#People Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Study Quotes

“I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing....”
“You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.”
“No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.”

Source : Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more”, p.1110, e-artnow
“The person with a safe center doesn't fear change. We can choose change without fear before a challenge only when we are strongly centered.”
“Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“All sports are games of inches.”
“One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. "Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are ha!" Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe "no more than robots!”

Source : "The Player of Games (The Culture, Book 2)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 2, p. 279), 1988.
“The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.”

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