Philip Zimbardo Quotes

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

Philip Zimbardo

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• According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Army
  • Soviet

• I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

  

  Felicia Day
  • America
  • History
  • Fact

• I worked on 'Game Of Thrones' for six years, so I'm very well equipped to handle hype surrounding television shows.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Game
  • Television
  • Hype

• On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • History
  • Star
  • Sports

• There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Children
  • History
  • House

• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Problem
  • Environment
  • Military

• I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Good
  • Past

• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • History
  • Reality
  • Man

• You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Different
  • History
  • Respect

• In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Men
  • History
  • Destiny

• I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Training
  • Research
  • Self-Taught

• When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Success
  • Girl
  • Moral

• Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Learning

• I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.

  

  Forrest Mars, Jr.
  • Man
  • Way
  • Religious

• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Personality

• I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Important
  • History
  • Events

• I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.

  

  Kate Smith
  • People
  • Training
  • Embarrassed

• Freedom to tell any story I want, with all the imaginary tools of my trade, is why I love writing novels. I love taking an idea, fleshing it out into a new world - and going on adventures with characters who day-dream themselves into existence and take on lives of their own.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • World
  • Writing
  • Why

• There's something really personal about your voice, where if people talk shit on your guitar, 'Ugh, he played out of tune,' etc., you can, in your head, blame it on something else, but when you fuck up with your singing, that's part of you ... So I guess I'm an insecure enough dude that I just went back and really studied and tried to sing better.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • People
  • Up
  • Singing

• Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished.

  

  R. G. LeTourneau
  • Good

• If you look at the character of Sadness, they really nailed my eyebrows.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Character

• My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Engagement

• That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

  

  Philip Zimbardo
  • History
  • Environment
  • Religious