“If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.” IfsWayGivingScienceWaveImpressionBehaveQuantumParticlesQuantum MechanicsElectronsWrong Impression Author:Richard P. Feynman
“For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their budgets. It turns out that families looked around and said, "You know what? Let's behave more like the government!"” KnowsLongHas BeensSaidI CanGovernmentRememberTurnsBusinessOughtBalanceFinanceBudgetsBehaveFederal GovernmentSlogansBudgetingLike Family Author:George Will
“I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.” PeopleWayFilmPsychologicalPianoBehaveNutsSpooky Author:Jane Campion
“I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.” WayFirstsLanguageNovelIntentionSentencesFinishedBehaveEnglish LanguageSingle Sentence Author:Michael Cunningham
“Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.” WorstBehaveRobots Author:Fernando Flores
“To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.” TryingCharacterFunPercentConnectedRelateAttractiveBehavePropositions Author:Rebecca Hall
“I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.” ShouldHeartDifferentStoriesCertainCultureDrawsMythTalesBehaveLegendsDifferent CulturesCautionary Tales Author:Robert Jordan
“The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.” PeopleIfsLiteratureSocietyEternalEternityBehaveImmortal Book:Two Cheers for Democracy Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.” PeopleHas BeensStillsSuccessfulLuckyLateGratefulBe GoodBehaveBe GratefulSuccess In Life Author:Jeffrey Dean Morgan
“The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.” MenWorldUseMovingLiteratureGeniusGainsBehaveConceptionHistorianPersonal Experiences Author:E. M. Forster