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“The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.”

Problem Humanity Sin Behavior Core Vertical Horizontal

Author:James MacDonald

“I think The Room is something magnetic, a certain magnetism in The Room that is related to human behavior, and that's why people relate to it.”

People Thinking Humans Certain Rooms Behavior Relate Related Human Behavior Magnetic Magnetism

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“Subliminal is about how we misinterpret our behavior because were unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.”

Mind Behavior Unconscious Unconscious Mind Subliminal

Author:Leonard Mlodinow

“Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than none. Since many girls as well as boys buy the idea that sexual aggression and exploitation is normal masculine behavior, it may not even occur to them to demand to be treated as equals.”

Thinking Needs Wells May Ideas Girl Social Attention Boys Acceptance Demand Behavior Normal Treated Approval Aggression Exploitation Masculine Harassment

Author:Leora Tanenbaum

“In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.”

Decision Behavior Currents Decision Making Advertisements

Author:David Perlmutter

“Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture the hearts of people. And its all fraud; its all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if its proletariat behavior.”

People Ifs Way Heart Country Fall Deals Behavior Capture Fraud Elites Dropping Proletariat Stagecraft

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.”

Want Heart Behavior

Author:Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.”

Way Has Beens Self Play Use Might Night Asks Games Given Process Powerful Behavior Negative Could Have Been Neurotic Old Love

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges.”

“I think comedy directors tend to feel a need to justify the bad behavior, and I just never think that. I like bad behavior, I've always liked bad behavior, I'm a fan of bad behavior, and I don't think you have to justify bad behavior.”

Thinking Needs Feels Comedy Fans Directors Behavior Justify Bad Behavior

Author:Todd Phillips

“If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.”

Ifs Years Humanity Race Responsibility Environment Achieve Planets Type Behavior Decades Sustainability Taking Responsibility Shifting Our Planet Triggers Our Environment

Author:Yehuda Berg

“CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.”

Thinking Trying Looks Self Use Order Girl Common Company Fit Behavior Asking Raises Ceo Mold Entitlement Dose Trying To Change

Author:Adora Svitak

“Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice--and therefore awareness itself--is freedom.”

Way Choices Company Awareness Behavior Locked

Author:Geneen Roth

“The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall determine them. The first educational question will not be 'what knowledge is of the most worth?' but 'what kinds of human beings do we wish to produce?' The possibilities virtually defy our imagination.”

“In short-to overstate the point only slightly-because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else's, and in many circumstances actually less so.”

People Knows Giving Circumstances Behavior Explanation

Author:Kwame

“I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.”

Wisdom Gay Behavior Suspects Behaviour Countenance Austerity Harshness Sociable Surly

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.”

Humans Philosophy Opinion Behavior Lows Philosophical Embrace Humble Conformity

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.”

Humans Self Loses Knowledge Worst Conditions Behavior Self Knowledge

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.”

People Mind Art Culture Records Behavior Art Is Productions Dealing With People

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.”

Book Self Character Order Winning Duty Battle Behavior Provinces Tranquillity

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with a writer who would refuse to discuss her work with her editors? What publication would continue to publish a writer who attacked it on TV? What publication would continue to publish a writer who lied about it - on TV and to a Washington Post reporter? ... It's true: Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn't an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior.”

Writing Persons Earth Clear Tvs Behavior Refuse Excuse Scary Fearless Posts Editors Continuing Reporters Publish Lied Publication Fearlessness

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged a person of his own sex, but a mental illness which one blamed on his mother. Consequently, a homosexual is not responsible for his behavior - it's his mother's fault!”

Persons Form Mother Sex Behavior Responsible Faults Illness Scary Mental Illness Engaged Illegal Homosexuality Homosexual Perversion Debauchery

Book:The unhappy gays: what everyone should know about homosexuality

Source: The unhappy gays: what everyone should know about homosexuality

“I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.”

Thinking Important Law Social Moral Behavior Benefits Institutions Social Institutions Moral Behavior Moral Education

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are.”

People Thinking Watches Stupid Behavior Comedian

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed and all of that sort of thing, their behavior can lead to bubbles. And it may have had and Internet bubble at one time, you've had a farm bubble, farmland bubble in the Midwest which resulted in all kinds of tragedy in the early '80s.”

Years Humans Kind May Human Beings Internet Behavior Years Ago Tragedy Greed All Kinds Combination Farms One Time Bubbles 80s Bulbs Holland Midwest Farmland

Author:Howard Warren Buffett

“The term revolution means: a sudden, radical, and complete change from the way things are normally done. I love that definition because I really feel that in order for us to start walking in the kind of love that Christ commanded us to - the "love your neighbor as yourself" kind - it's going to take a radical change in our current behavior. The church has become passive and selfish and it's going to take a revolution to get us back to the place where we are not just talking the talk, but walking in a love that shows the world Christ's love.”

“To me, real comedy comes out of behavior. It's the choices you make as an actor. It's never about, "I want to do a comedy script." I can't think of it that way. And besides, some of those movies, those comedy movies, I can't even watch them.”

Thinking Way Want I Can Real Choices Actors Watches Comedy Behavior Scripts Choices You Make Comedy Movie

Author:Robert Duvall

“Sometimes it comes out in what I call tricksy behavior. That's not always easy to deal with, but it's fascinating. The key thing is to make sure that somebody's tricks don't trip up somebody else.”

Sometimes Easy Deals Keys Behavior Tricks Fascinating Key Things

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“I don't find the same things funny that many other people seem to find funny. I don't really respond to sex jokes and things like that, and some of my friends look at me and go, "Come on, Nic, that was my best joke. Why aren't you laughing?" I go, "I really don't know why I'm not laughing. I'm sort of out of sync with it." So I'd have to find something that was really about weird human behavior for me to laugh.”

People Knows Humans Looks Seems Sex Laughing Behavior Jokes My Friends Human Behavior Look At Me Sync

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Sexually-transmitted diseases is caused by sexual activity and promiscuity it spreads diseases. That's been known, you know, about 400 or 500 years, that somehow these diseases are spread. If fault comes with people because of their personal behavior but it isn't to be placed on a burden on other people, innocent people, why should they have to pay for the consequences?”

People Ifs Knows Should Years Pay Known Activity Disease Behavior Consequence Faults Burden Spread Innocent Sexually Promiscuity Sexually Transmitted Diseases Personal Behavior

Author:Ron Paul

“If people are smokers, don't they have to pay more? Sometimes, you get your insurance cheaper if you are a nonsmoker. So, let the markets sort this out and insurance sort it out, but not having dictates by the government saying thou, you must do this and your behavior doesn't matter, you know?”

People Ifs Knows Sometimes Matter Government Pay Behavior Cheaper Smokers

Author:Ron Paul

“You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.”

Self Christ Situation Ego Behavior Flexible Inappropriate Rigidity

Author:John Cleese

“Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.”

Men May Said Stills Use Body Running Time Water Saws Masters Behavior Ill Great Men Void

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.”

Made Stills Self Fear Behavior Bounds

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.”

Humans Wells Play Difficult Human Nature Behavior Noble Human Life

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.”

Mind Eye Young Joy Desire Passion Enjoy Walks Existence Vision Walking Thousand Behavior Assuming Depth Admire Live Life Unhappiness Leisure Portraits Sublime Plunge Grotesque Mind Set

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.”

Children Age Grows Growing Up Childhood Cry Baby Behavior Increase Hated Geese Nephew Niece

Book:A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)

“Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.”

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”

Reading Sports Behavior Ethics Athlete

Author:Mason Cooley

“... it has always been the depth of my belief, my faith, or my love that was the mainspring of my behavior. When once I believed in doing a thing, nothing could prevent my doing it.”

Faith Belief Behavior Depth

Author:Margaret Sanger

“That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty little secret is that the rallying cry is a whisper.... The great unspoken on the heterosexual AIDS front has been how behavior is still determined by the old psychosexual minuet of the sexes, the lack of responsibility in young men and of assertiveness in young women.”

“No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly that they lose all proper perspective on silliness, like a baker who is nauseated by the sight of his own eclairs. This provides another good argument for the emerging theory that the best use of cryogenics is to freeze all human beings when they are between the ages of twelve and nineteen.”

Thinking Humans Use Age Loses Human Beings Share Theory Perspective Behavior Argument Sight Silly Enormous Twelve Emerging Freeze Suitable Nineteen Bakers Silliness Eclairs

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to convert his mother's restrictions and prohibitions into the rules for behavior that will belong to him.”

Mother Ready Behavior Yeah Restriction Prohibition Saying Yes Toddler

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

“The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.”

Reason Morality Behavior Operations

Book:A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

“Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.”

Able Success Order Nations Social Race Attitude Economy Strange Degrees Behavior Diversity Success And Failure Social Order Cultural Diversity National Economy Behavior And Attitude

Book:An Anthropologist at Work

Source: An Anthropologist at Work

“Your beliefs about yourself and your world create your expectations. Your expectations determine your attitude. Your attitude determines your behavior and the way you relate to other people. And the way you behave toward and relate to other people determines how they relate to and behave toward you.”

People World Way Belief Attitude Behavior Expectations Determine Relate Behave About Yourself

Book:Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success

Source: Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success

“Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of morally or politically correct sexual behavior will be subverted by nature's daemonic law.”

Law Sex Theory Behavior Models Abuse Conform Violation Benevolence Politically Correct Perversity

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There's no way of sustaining our children if we don't first rescue ourselves. I don't call that selfish behavior. I call it love.”

Ifs Way Firsts Children Young Mother Events Behavior Our Children Selfish Mask Airplane Rescue Oxygen Tactics Shortage Young Children Sustaining

Author:Joyce Maynard

“Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable to virtue and unfavourable to vice, no more can be requisite to the regulation of our conduct and behavior.”

Ifs Real Pleasure Virtue Behavior Concern Philosophical Vices Sentiments Regulation Uneasiness

Book:A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Source: A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

“In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents matches what they say.”

Humans Wells Children Jobs Joy Parent Hurt Poor Situation Leader Teaching Behavior Judgment Disappointment Acknowledge Empowering Boss Nurturing Good Judgment

Author:Virginia Satir