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“Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself.”

America Nations Behavior Ideals Prejudice Blame Dawn Grandfather My Grandfather Bad Behavior Aberration

Book:Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism

Source: Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism

“Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.”

Has Beens Used Term Behavior Excuse Phrases Introduction Psychoanalysis

Author:Sean Connery

“We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.”

Form Certain Natural Novel Theory Behavior Consequence Arise Characteristics Selection Natural Selection Selected Discarded Mutation Reinforcement

Book:Science And Human Behavior

Source: Science And Human Behavior

“One of many challenges is of course to create a legal basis for copyright issues that's up to date with both modern distribution, consumer behavior and the rights and needs of creators and copyright holders.”

Needs Courses Challenges Issues Rights Modern Behavior Bases Creator Consumers Distribution Copyright Up To Date

Author:Lisa Langseth

“We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. Just to answer the question why does not say I'm validating behavior. I'm just saying, if we're going to be a student of human behavior, be a true student.”

Ifs Trying Humans Doe Answers Students Behavior Mad Human Behavior Just Saying Abhorrent

Author:Wendell Pierce

“I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always a study of human behavior because if we just demonize it, it becomes unreal.”

Ifs Should Humans Loses Accepting Study Behavior Human Behavior Offended Unreal

Author:Wendell Pierce

“Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.”

People Thinking Knows Children Sometimes Whole Parent Know How Behavior Raises Blame Ruins Paradox Learned Behavior

Author:Terry McMillan

“So the only way I could stave off any of these assaults was to become a gang banger, and to excel, so I could quell the behavior. If I excelled, then I could call the shots. So I became a community leader from inside.”

Ifs Way Community Leader Behavior Shots Assault Gang

Author:Malik Yusef

“I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.”

People Too Much Behavior Standing Spectators

Author:Ralph Nader

“There's only one thing worse than not paying attention to girls in gangs - it's paying attention to girls in gangs. The public reaction to girls and women who engage in nontraditional behavior - the hysteria that often surrounds girls in these groups - is almost as interesting as the behavior itself.”

Girl Interesting Attention One Thing Groups Behavior Reactions Pay Attention Surround Gang Hysteria

Author:Meda Chesney-Lind

“I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.”

Thinking Trying Kind Behavior Extensions Embarrassing Old Fashioned Being Old

Author:Phil Elvrum

“I find it very annoying that so many animal advocates talk about the difficulty of being vegan. Many animal advocates are inclined to make the issue their suffering and not the animals' suffering, and I suppose that accounts for part of the reason that veganism is portrayed as such a "sacrifice." And many animal advocates are not vegans, or are "flexible vegans," which means that they do not observe veganism at all or not consistently, and emphasizing the supposed difficulty of veganism is part of justifying their own behavior.”

Mean Reason Suffering Animal Issues Sacrifice Behavior Accounts Difficulty Vegan Annoying Consistently Flexible Veganism Animal Suffering

Author:Gary L. Francione

“In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.”

Want Art Body Reading Individual Process Sky Behavior Capture Offering Stable Shifting Coherence Characterization Skylines Art And Life

Author:Ben Lerner

“Wild groups of chimpanzees attack their enemies like gangs. What they completely lack, precisely because of their strong territorial behavior, is a friendly relationship with their neighbors.”

Strong Enemy Groups Behavior Neighbor Friendly Gang Chimpanzees Territorial

Author:Frans de Waal

“I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I'm interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is kind of a political thing, I admit that. But it's what I'm interested in, and it's how I believe human behavior is legible.”

Want Writing Believe Humans Kind Character Political I Believe Social Behavior Historical Human Behavior Historical Context

Author:Dana Spiotta

“The amygdala, along with related areas..., plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially sensitive to social interactions.”

Play Social Memories Roles Behavior Perception Areas Sensitive Related Regions Crucial Interaction Social Interaction Coordinating

Book:The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

Source: The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

“Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and then the emotional turmoil I experienced without those behaviors (not knowing how to cope with perfectionism, feelings, and life in general) took me even further, so that I ultimately found serenity.”

Feelings Pain Found Knowing Emotional Behavior Eating Intense Disorder Serenity Not Knowing Making Changes Perfectionism Turmoil Eating Disorder Recovering Emotional Turmoil Intense Pain

Book:Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

Source: Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

“Today's belief is tomorrow's behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today.”

Ifs Want Persons Today Belief Tomorrow Behavior Seeds

Author:Max Lucado

“Leadership is the behavior each of us exerts when we take responsibility for our actions and their consequences.”

Action Responsibility Behavior Consequence Taking Responsibility Our Actions

Book:180 Ways to Walk the Leadership Talk

Source: 180 Ways to Walk the Leadership Talk

“What we now consider to be radical behavior was to early believers nothing more than a sincere attempt to live obediently.”

Behavior Believer Radical Sincere Radicalism

Author:Greg Laurie

“When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.”

People Needs Humans Sometimes Feelings Seems Language Human Beings Seeing Behavior Monsters Humanness

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel (all evidence suggests true sadists are an extremely small proportion of the population overall), but how we have come to create institutions that encourage such behavior and that suggest cruel people are in some ways admirable-or at least as deserving of sympathy as those they push around.”

People Way Should Sometimes Behavior Evidence Asking Institutions Population Proportion Admirable Deserving

Author:David Graeber

“Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior. ... New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin.”

“The soul journey inward is when we are invited to cast aside beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve us and release all tendencies toward victimhood, stagnation, passivity, and self-destruction that keep us disempowered or cause frustration and suffering to ourselves and others. This is no easy task, and one in which we can use all the divine support possible to help us on our way. It is a time to pray.”

“Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we experience right now. The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty. The future is nothing grander than the very next moment, and it arrives solely from the present.”

World Moments Next Opportunity Kindness Right Now Behavior Bigger Cruelty Each Day Significance Civilized Smallest Acts Of Kindness Change For The Better Civilized Behavior

Book:It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice

Source: It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice

“Unfair and unkind behavior in exchange for your loving efforts is the rule rather than the exception”

Effort Behavior Exception Unfair Unkind

Author:Paul Hauck

“Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects.”

Thinking Stories Effects Behavior Perception Labels Bias Evaluate

Author:Michael J Cohen

“One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.”

Humans Shows Loss Study Greater Keys Behavior Elements Gains Enjoyment Academic Human Behavior

Author:Laurence D. Fink

“Barbara Parkins was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly.”

Found Behavior Silly Rude Petty Barbara

Author:Lana Wood

“Although homosexual behavior is very common in the animal world, it seems to be very uncommon that individual animals have a long-lasting predisposition to engage in such behavior to the exclusion of heterosexual activities. Thus, a homosexual orientation, if one can speak of such thing in animals, seems to be a rarity.”

Ifs World Long Seems Individual Speak Animal Common Activity Behavior Lasting Homosexual Orientation Uncommon Exclusion Animal World Rarity Long Lasting

Book:Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research Into Homosexuality

Source: Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research Into Homosexuality

“The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that youll have little in the future.”

People Ifs Way Littles Behavior Notion Behave Capture Again And Again Traps Domain Disadvantages Scarcity

Author:Sendhil Mullainathan

“Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.”

Thinking Action Next Behavior Increase Reducing Likelihood

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it.”

Humans Two Action Motivation Company Behavior Increase Psychological Ease Performing Human Behavior Likelihood Pulleys

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex is only about sex in snakes, or sex in egg-laying reptiles. Although a biologist's job in part is to interpret what organisms do in a broader context, that context does not, and should not, need to include a lesson for human beings. This is true regardless of whether the lesson is something we would like to teach, which means that using animals as vehicles for nonsexist thinking is just as out of bounds as using them to keep women barefoot and pregnant.”

“Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events.”

People Mind Seems Spirit Memories Doubt Events Return Behavior Fixed Bad Behavior

Book:A Most Unsuitable Man

Source: A Most Unsuitable Man

“Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.”

Energy Attitude Watches Ready Behavior Perception Approach Meetings Contribution High Energy

Author:Jack Welch

“One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.”

Thinking Should Believe Children Government Parent Behavior Responsible Conservative Upbringing Being Responsible

Author:Lyn Nofziger

“Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.”

Humans Creativity Behavior Excellence Traits Domain Distinctive

Author:Ellis Paul Torrance

“Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial place in the culture. For obvious reasons, the culture cannot endorse this behavior, even as it is in thrall to it.”

Persons Self Reason Culture Novel Essentials Behavior Projects Obvious Criminals Crucial Linked Reinvention Tropes

Author:Luc Sante

“I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself.”

Emotion Source Behavior Absolutes Requirements

Author:Luc Sante

“I'm of the old-fashioned opinion that shame can be used for all sorts of good in society. An example of this is smoking: When someone lights up around a crowd, people now usually say something. So I don't understand why it's not OK to apply the same logic to other behaviors.”

People Light Used Opinion Example Behavior Logic Shame Crowds Smoking Old Fashioned Light Up

Author:Keli Goff

“The thing that has always interested me in the kinds of shows that I do have more to do with the consequences of behavior than the behavior itself. Pulling a trigger and shooting somebody, or dismembering somebody.”

Kind Shows Behavior Consequence Shooting Pulling Triggers

Author:Steven Bochco

“From Ukraine to Syria, he [Vladimir Putin] is behaving like the world's new general and celebrating victories, while the American president sits on the sidelines and Europe sleeps. The West's behavior toward Putin is political and moral capitulation.”

World Use Political President Sleep Moral Victory Behavior Europe West Celebrate Propaganda Syria Putin Ukraine Fascists Sidelines American President Capitulation

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.”

Hate Generations Behavior Access Abusive Counseling

Author:Pam Grier

“Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.”

Young Girl Parent Community Healing Boys Saws Behavior Negative Female Down And Males Wellness Our Community Abusive

Author:Pam Grier

“Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.”

Behavior Conscious Performances

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.”

Mankind Behavior Evidence Boxing Wrestling Savages

Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi

“The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.”

“We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.”

Behavior Sentences Serving Pardon Good Behavior Pardon Me

Author:Douglas Horton

“3 "amnesty" didn't mean rewarding illegal behavior.”

Mean Behavior Illegal Amnesty

Author:John McCain

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