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“When there's a good fit between skills and expectations, there's what we call compatibility, and we would expect a good outcome. When there's a poor fit between expectations and the capacity of the kid, there is incompatibility, and that's when we see people exhibit challenging behavior.”

People Kids Challenges Poor Fit Skills Behavior Expectations Capacity Outcomes Exhibits Compatibility Incompatibility

Author:Ross W. Greene

“I always knew I could hold people's attention and make them laugh every 30 or 40 seconds, and I got approval and attention for that, so the behavior was reinforced. Later, that became an important skill on the street corner.”

People Important Attention Laughing Streets Skills Behavior Corners Seconds Approval Street Corners

Author:George Carlin

“I'm a child of the 50s. I was expected to have table manners. There needs to be some expectations for behavior. I'm seeing some children today, they don't push them enough.”

Needs Children Enough Today Seeing Behavior Expectations Tables Expected Manners Table Manners

Author:Temple Grandin

“I have an admiration, even though I'm not likely to do that sort of thing myself, for [Ayn] Roark's behavior when he decided that his design was not being followed - which was a gross violation, by the way, of private property rights, because the building was his.”

Way Rights Design Building Behavior Decided Property Admiration Gross Violation Private Property Property Rights

Author:Murray Bookchin

“Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.”

Government Behavior Debt Intervention Lenders Government Intervention

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.”

Two Terrible Behavior Good Behavior

Author:David Brooks

“I'm not sure [Donald] Trump has had that distinction between private and public life in his head. And so, I think there's likely to be an erosion of just that standard, that different standard, consciousness, and I think it's likely we'll see what we haven't seen in the last eight years and even the last 12 or 16 of private enrichment in office and scandals where people have to resign and things like that, because just once the standards go, behavior tends to go.”

People Thinking Years Different Lasts Consciousness Havens Trump Office Behavior Standards Eight Not Sure Distinction Scandal Public Life Erosion Enrichment

Author:David Brooks

“Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.”

Humans Behavior Mirrors Worthy Celebration Human Behavior Examination

Author:Tom Hanks

“It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.”

Persons Self Humanity Levels Steps Awareness Perspective Behavior Self Awareness Connecting

Author:Bryce Dallas Howard

“The fascinating thing about our best and worst behaviors isn't the behavior itself - the brain tells the muscles to do something or other - big deal. It's the meaning of the behavior.”

Bigs Deals Brain Worst Behavior Muscles Fascinating Big Deal

Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

“Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an utterly different meaning. Placing your hand on someone's arm can be an act of deep compassion or the first step of betrayal. The punch line? It's all about context, and the biology of context is vastly more complicated than the biology of the behavior itself.”

Ifs Firsts Different Hands Lines Compassion Steps Fire Arms Behavior Gun Complicated Betrayal Drawing Biology First Steps Pulling Suicidal Triggers Of Context Different Meanings

Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

“What happened in the milliseconds before a behavior to cause it? That's in the neurobiological realm.”

Causes Happened Behavior Realms

Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

“Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.”

Humans Behavior Moralizing

Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

“Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.”

Important Understanding Brain Behavior Function Code Etc Genes Protein Pertinent Brain Function

Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

“Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.”

Trying Behavior Creating Terrorism Terrorist Psychological Uncertainty Manipulation Division Warfare Manipulate Psychological Warfare Creating Fear

Author:Patrick J. Kennedy

“When you look at any experimental work not directly related to economics, but trying to test rational behavior in other ways, experiments have conspicuously failed to show rational behavior. Macro evidence certainly suggests deviations from rationality, but I don't want to say the rationality hypothesis is completely wrong. If you have any introspective idea or experimental idea about people's behavior, it seems to be incompatible with the really full scale rational expectations.”

People Ifs Way Want Trying Looks Ideas Shows Seems Behavior Expectations Evidence Economics Tests Scales Experiments Rational Related Rationality Hypothesis Introspective Deviation Macro

Author:Kenneth Arrow

“I think one of the things we learned from the physicists and also the theoretical biologists is the idea that when you're dealing with very complex systems you're going to get a large variety of behavior which can be interpreted as hill climbing, but hill climbing with a lot of modifications, hill climbing with big jumps occasionally.”

Thinking Ideas Bigs Behavior Complexes Variety Hills Climbing Physicist Theoretical Biologist Modification Complex Systems

Author:Kenneth Arrow

“There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.”

Writing Art Past Artist Serious Members Behavior Angry Presses Pursuit

Author:Yayoi Kusama

“In at least one country where homosexual activists have won major concessions, we have even seen a church pastor threatened with prison for preaching from the pulpit that homosexual behavior is sinful. Given these trends, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints must take a stand on doctrine and principle. This is more than a social issue - ultimately it may be a test of our most basic religious freedoms to teach what we know our Father in Heaven wants us to teach.”

“The distinction between feelings or inclinations on the one hand, and behavior on the other hand, is very clear. It's no sin to have inclinations that if yielded to would produce behavior that would be a transgression. The sin is in yielding to temptation. Temptation is not unique. Even the Savior was tempted.”

Ifs Feelings Hands Would Be Sin Clear Produce Behavior Unique Temptation Distinction Savior Tempted Inclination Transgression

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“I think it's important for you to understand that homosexuality is not a noun that describes a condition. It's an adjective that describes feelings or behavior.”

Thinking Important Feelings Conditions Behavior Homosexuality Adjectives Nouns

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“I encourage you to seek the help of the Savior to resist temptation and to refrain from behavior that would cause you to have to repent or to have your Church membership called into question.”

Helping Causes Church Behavior Temptation Savior Repent Refrain Membership Church Membership

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“Homosexual feelings are controllable. Perhaps there is an inclination or susceptibility to such feelings that is a reality for some and not a reality for others. But out of such susceptibilities come feelings, and feelings are controllable. If we cater to the feelings, they increase the power of the temptation. If we yield to the temptation, we have committed sinful behavior. That pattern is the same for a person that covets someone else's property and has a strong temptation to steal. It's the same for a person that develops a taste for alcohol.”

Ifs Persons Feelings Reality Strong Taste Behavior Increase Property Patterns Committed Alcohol Stealing Temptation Yield Homosexual Inclination Susceptibility

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“Feelings can be controlled and behavior can be controlled. The line of sin is between the feelings and the behavior. The line of prudence is between the susceptibility and the feelings.”

Feelings Lines Sin Behavior Controlled Prudence Susceptibility

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“We need to lay hold on the feelings and try to control them to keep us from getting into a circumstance that leads to sinful behavior.”

Needs Trying Feelings Circumstances Behavior Lays

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“The Atonement of Jesus Christ is powerful enough to reach out and cleanse you if you are repentant and give up your sinful behavior, but I urge you not to embark on that path because repentance is not easy.”

Ifs Giving Enough Jesus Easy Christ Powerful Path Giving Up Behavior Jesus Christ Urges Repentance Reach Out Atonement

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“We should remember that none of us is perfect and none of us has children whose behavior is entirely in accord with exactly what we would have them do in all circumstances.”

Should Children Remember Perfect Circumstances Behavior Accord

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“Law has at least two roles: one is to define and regulate the limits of acceptable behavior. The other is to teach principles for individuals to make individual choices.”

Two Law Choices Individual Principles Roles Teach Limits Behavior Acceptable Individual Choice

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“One of the great sophistries of our age, I think, is that merely because one has an inclination to do something, that therefore acting in accordance with that inclination is inevitable. That's contrary to our very nature as the Lord has revealed to us. We do have the power to control our behavior.”

Thinking Age Acting Lord Behavior Contrary Inevitable Inclination Sophistry

Author:Lance B. Wickman

“Why somebody has a same-gender attraction... who can say? But what matters is the fact that we know we can control how we behave, and it is behavior which is important.”

Knows Important Matter Facts Behavior Gender Attraction Behave What Matters

Author:Lance B. Wickman

“Homosexual behavior is and will always remain before the Lord an abominable sin. Calling it something else by virtue of some political definition does not change that reality.”

Doe Reality Political Sin Lord Virtue Calling Behavior Definitions Homosexual

Author:Lance B. Wickman

“One thing that I learned that helped me deal with human behavior is confrontation, and I'm not that great with confrontation at all. But once I started to be O.K. with that, the better everybody's life got.”

Humans Deals One Thing Behavior Human Behavior Confrontation

Author:Kenny Chesney

“The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous.”

Individual Behavior Rational Outcomes Links Desirable

Author:Robert H. Frank

“A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to take, to abuse, to offend and they build fences to keep you out. They don't have time to talk, they don't have kind words, they only talk about themselves. They never give an olive branch or forgiveness - they create a fence because of their personality or behavior and they want to create a barrier to keep people out.”

People Knows Want Giving Kind Know How Personality Behavior Abuse Our Family Branches Barriers Fence Protective Olives Kind Words Olive Branches

Author:Russell Hornsby

“Galen's observations reflect one of the distinctive features of early Christianity. Roman-era religion was mainly about ritual actions vis-à-vis the gods, and there was little to do with ordering behavior otherwise.”

Littles Action Christianity Behavior Observation Eras Features Ritual Distinctive Galen

Author:Larry Hurtado

“Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.”

Christianity Behavior Tradition Philosophical Everyday Eras Live Your Life Emphasis

Author:Larry Hurtado

“In light of Trump's irresponsible behavior, even Putin may decide that it was time to recalculate Russian interests. This could happen quite quickly if Trump goes ahead and wrecks one of the few potentially stabilizing developments in the Middle East during the last several years. Similarly, if Israel joins NATO, this might be more than Putin is willing to swallow.”

Ifs Years May Light Might Happens Lasts Interest Middle Willing Development Trump Behavior Israel East Middle East Putin Irresponsible Wrecks Nato

Author:Richard A. Falk

“Any move by Israel to end the conflict with the Palestinians by unilateral moves - such as annexing the West Bank, delinking Gaza and declaring that there be no further diplomatic process - will lead to strong regional and global reactions, as well as intensify efforts at the UN and in civil society to brand Israel as an outlaw state dangerous to regional and world peace and guilty of criminal behavior.”

“With the exception of Obama's belated lame-duck behavior, the US has always, in practice, supported Israel unquestionably.”

Practice Behavior Israel Exception Ducks Lame Belated

Author:Lawrence Davidson

“[Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, who has given obnoxiousness a new definition in his personal behavior, oftentimes in his dealings with the press, had a very good point.”

Ideas Winning Given Behavior Election Presses Democrat Very Good Definitions Candidates Chicago Great Idea Mayors Dealings Winning Elections Personal Behavior

Author:Mark Shields

“It's interesting sometimes to read about the last days of past civilizations. It's hard not to notice during these readings that those last days were filled with completely irrational ideas and behaviors that could not be explained in any way outside of a mass collapse of reason.”

Way Ideas Sometimes Hard Reason Lasts Past Reading Interesting Civilization Behavior Mass Filled Collapse Irrational Last Day

Author:David Horowitz

“Most societies wipe themselves out and it's interesting to read about the last days of past civilizations. You'll note that the last days of past civilizations were filled with idiotic, irrational ideas and behaviors that couldn't be explained by reason.”

Ideas Reason Lasts Past Interesting Civilization Behavior Filled Notes Irrational Wipe Last Day Idiotic

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“There are nature and nurture components to virtually every behavior a human experiences. The research effort lies only in finding the relevant percentages, not on some absolute value. That's one of the reasons behavioral scientists have to be really good statisticians.”

Humans Reason Lying Values Effort Behavior Findings Research Scientist Absolutes Relevant Nurture Components Human Experience Percentages Statistician

Author:John Medina

“The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.”

Interest Behavior Distance Nuclear Contribution Fascinating Relative Genes Nurture Nuclear Families

Author:John Medina

“If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.”

Ifs Purpose Brain Too Much Behavior Function Quitting Managers Yelling Too Much Work Brain Function

Author:John Medina

“A curious mind does not say to consumers "What do you want?" A curious mind understands context, understands behavior, understands spending and spending patterns - the accumulation of a day's purchases, or spending over a week or a year. A curious mind asks the questions that open up the consumer to talk about her latent dissatisfactions, hopes, wishes, and dreams.”

Want Years Mind Doe Dream Asks Wish Week Behavior Patterns Spending Curious Consumers Accumulation Dissatisfaction Latent

Book:Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth

Source: Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth

“For me, it's often about consumption behavior. I focus my energy on understanding the heavy user. They are "odd" but hold opportunity. I ask: how do they use the product, what motivates them, how can we clone them.”

Use Asks Opportunity Energy Understanding Focus Products Behavior Heavy Odd Users Consumption

Author:Michael J. Silverstein

“Consumers cannot think in abstractions. They cannot envision a new concept. They cannot predict their behavior. They can only compare against their current frame of reference. So you need to make the big leap for them. You need to provide them with a reason to buy, a reason to brag to their friends. Expect new-to-the-world ideas to fall on deaf ears. Consumers will, however, change their tune when they can see, touch, and explore.”

Thinking World Needs Ideas Reason Bigs Fall Behavior Concepts Ears Currents Consumers Compare Tunes Leap Abstraction Deaf Brag Frame Of Reference Deaf Ears

Author:Michael J. Silverstein

“Values must be demonstrated through behaviors, but they are truly significant when they represent the beliefs of an entire organization.”

Values Belief Behavior Organization Significant

Author:Bill Capodagli

“When I first saw a White Dutch person dressed up as Black Pete, I was both sickened and shocked. It's hard to stand next to someone who views your skin color and hair as a costume. As a filmmaker, whenever I get that feeling, I want to explore what motivates people to engage in such offensive behavior and enlighten folks about its origins.”

People Want Firsts Persons Hard Feelings Next Black White Views Saws Color Hair Behavior Skins Folks Filmmaker Offensive Shocked Costumes Enlightening Dutch Dressed Up Skin Color

Author:Roger Ross Williams

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