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Philip Zimbardo Quotes

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Philip Zimbardo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 23, 1933

Topics

Good Smart People Evil Good People

If I am looking to impress people, I'll be in a Rent the Runway dress and great accessories.

Jennifer Hyman

Great I Am Dress People Looking Am

You notice it with any organization that's had a lot of success: you will start to reach thinking, 'That's the player, that's the method, that's the mechanism, that's the coach, that's the thing that's going to put us over the top.'

Jeffrey Lurie

Success Organization Start Thinking

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

Jeane Dixon

Purpose Meaning Our Endowed Lives

Not a lot of hard rock bands are just letting it all be - they're adding a lot of samples on things, or effects or whatever - and we just wanted the drums to be raw so you could really hear what Brooks Wackerman is capable of.

Johnny Christ

You Rock Hard Capable Whatever Just

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

Stephen Sondheim

Song Story Enjoy Back Stage Singer

If we want to be members of the world community, we need to think that way.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Community World Think Want Way Need

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

Sting

Perspective I Am Lost Never Pretty

The thing with TV and filming is the timing is all faked anyway. You do it so many times, from so many different angles. You never really do it all in one go anyway, so they just fix it all in the edit.

Simon Bird

You Go Timing Never Fix Angles

I think teen-age love is a great thing. There's nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.

Tom Jones

Life Love Great Love Is Rest Think

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Mind Result Know Say Difficult Film

I've always worked really hard, and I'll continue working the same way, whatever the size of the transfer fee.

Alisson

Way Hard Same Always Size Whatever

Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.

Pope Benedict XVI

End Rules Evolution Sociology Up