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“When people can say to themselves - "What I'm doing is justified," there is little chance of their modifying a behavior.”

People Littles Chance Behavior Justified Modifying

Author:Stanton Peele

“Anger management (which is a part of both public displays of rage and spouse abuse) is about changing a person's internal reactions to events (how they see their behavior) by changing the support environment for the behavior (making them see the behavior is wrong).”

Persons Support Environment Events Behavior Abuse Management Rage Reactions Internals Display Spouse Anger Management

Author:Stanton Peele

“When spectators and fans say about drunken brawls, violence, and dog fights, "Well, football players are prone to these things - that's why we admire them," they are encouraging terribly detrimental behavior. You might even say - a la Roman gladiators - they are egging on this behavior.”

Wells Might Fighting Player Violence Fans Dog Football Behavior Admire Spectators Football Player Detrimental

Author:Stanton Peele

“I went to Congress to change the policies of our country. I did not go to change the behaviors of members of Congress.”

Country Policy Members Behavior Congress Our Country

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.”

Doe Might Influence Behavior Behavior Change

Author:Octavia Spencer

“If you go out and have unprotected sex with lots of people, that behavior puts you at risk. Similarly, violent behavior can spread. One violent act can elicit a response. It can spread to people in a peer group so that they feel that they have to respond. It can pass generation to generation almost like a genetic disease.”

People Ifs Feels Sex Risk Generations Groups Disease Behavior Response Spread Violent Peers Peer Group Violent Acts

Author:Steven James

“A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past childhood as can be.”

Should Children Long Play Past Form Natural Childhood Behavior Aim Educate Honored Natural Forms

Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“The biggest mistake people make is assuming that their dogs think like little humans, and that they can negotiate behavior with them, but it doesn't work that way.”

People Thinking Way Humans Littles Mistake Dog Behavior Assuming Biggest Mistake

Author:Cesar Millan

“Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.”

Order Dog Behavior Instinct Useless Explaining

Author:Cesar Millan

“I don't believe in ever putting a dog down for behavior issues, because that's just punishing the dog for something wrong that humans did.”

Believe Humans Issues Dog Behavior Don't Believe

Author:Cesar Millan

“It is our responsibility as the stronger party [Israel], as the occupying power, to convince the Palestinians that they can achieve their basic national aims, their just national aspirations, without violence. Unfortunately, the behavior of the Sharon administration, and before this of the Barak administration, has shown the Palestinians the opposite: namely, that they will achieve nothing without violence.”

Party Responsibility Violence Achieve Behavior Opposites Stronger Aim Israel Administration Aspiration Convince Palestinian Sharon

Author:Uri Avnery

“Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about politics - in fact, heaven forbid. But politics is a totally legitimate area of focus for any art, whether it's painting or songwriting or anything else, as much as sex is, as much as spirituality is, as much as any other behavior of people is.”

People Mean Art Facts Spirituality Heaven Sex Focus Painting Behavior Art Is Areas Songwriting Parts Of Life

Author:Bruce Cockburn

“The other reason why people don't take a stand, which is very true in this election, is looking at [Donald] Trump and fearing reprisal, fearing reprisal from someone who is seeking the highest, most powerful role in the land, who has had a history of doing everything from attacks, threats and lawsuits and who has a complete kind of vengeful, narcissistic behavior, which makes people legitimately worried, almost like a schoolyard bully, that if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?”

People Ifs Kind Reason Powerful Steps Roles Land Trump Behavior Highest Election Threat Seeking Worried Reason Why Most Powerful Bully Narcissistic Step Up Lawsuit Very True Vengeful Reprisal

Author:Reid Hoffman

“Leading with character gives the wise leader clear-cut advantages. They are easier to trust and follow; they honor commitments and promises; their words and behavior match; they are always engaged in and by the world; they are open to "reflective backtalk": they can speak with conviction because they believe in what they are saying...and everyone else knows that. They are comfortable in their own skin. They feel at ease in the spotlight and they enjoy it there. They tend to be more receptive to opportunity and risk.”

“We're not served by only knowing our finest hours through film or media, or in the history that we are taught. I think the only way we have a chance to not make the same mistakes again, is to historically understand the bad behavior and mistakes we've made previously.”

Thinking Way Made Film Hours Chance Mistake Knowing Media Taught Behavior Finest Same Mistakes Bad Behavior Finest Hour

Author:David Oyelowo

“We can't use the word normal anymore because it's sort of come to be politically incorrect, because normal implies a classification, and categorizations, and exclusions, and so forth. So neurotypical is the word that we now have to use for what I call normal behavior. Neurotypical behaviors are those kinds of behaviors within the range of usual human conduct that do not rise to the level of a disorder.”

Humans Kind Use Levels Behavior Normal Range Disorder Usual Exclusion Classification Categorization

Author:Darold Treffert

“Savant syndrome is not a disorder in the same way as autism is a disorder or dementia is a disorder. Savant syndrome are some conditions that are superimposed and grafted on to some underlying disability. So savant syndrome is not a disease or disorder in and of itself. It is a collection of characteristics, or symptoms, or behaviors that have grafted on to the underlying disability.”

Way Conditions Disease Behavior Characteristics Collections Disorder Disability Autism Symptoms Syndromes Dementia Savants

Author:Darold Treffert

“The term syndrome generally appears to be a constellation, or collection, of similar traits or behaviors within an individual. So, savants do have sort of a constellation of symptoms, which is characterized by some spectacular skill, or skills, coupled with this massive memory which is grafted on to some underlying disability. So those three conditions quantify, in my mind, the term syndrome.”

Mind Three Individual Term Memories Conditions Skills Behavior Collections Massive Disability Traits Symptoms Spectacular Constellations Syndromes Savants

Author:Darold Treffert

“The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what I think are the subgroups of autism.”

Thinking Particular Behavior Autism

Author:Darold Treffert

“In general, in the matters that relate to theology or behavior, people to one another, Paul was obviously biblically correct. But when he said that women should always cover their hair or that women should not teach men, women should not have leadership positions in the church, women should not speak in the church, I don't' think that those writings of Paul can be extracted by themselves to stand alone. Also, Paul said that women should be subservient to their husbands but if you read a couple of verses down it says husbands should treat their wives as equals.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Should Writing Said Matter Speak Church Teach Wife Position Hair Couple Husband Behavior Treats Theology Relate Verses Men Women Stand Alone Subservient

Author:Jimmy Carter

“You have this giant institution called the United States media that was fully aware of the real reason behind open borders, mass immigration, and they're not fazed by it. They are not fazed by any of the dubious, any of the criminal, any of the catastrophically wrong, any of the catastrophically potentially damaging behavior on the part of the Democrats. It won't even be reported on. It won't even be referenced. And, as such, there's a certain percentage of the country that's never going to know what you and I know.”

Knows Real Country States Reason Certain United Behinds United States Media Behavior Mass Institutions Democrat Criminals Immigration Borders Giants Percentages Dubious

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Once the federal government has control of your health care, that means they can dictate your behavior.”

Mean Government Care Behavior Health Care Federal Government

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The corporate sector per se is bottom-line oriented. It can be very corrupt and it is not very principled. That is why I don't think it is sufficient just to have voluntary codes of behavior. I am in favor of legislation which helps to ensure that there is an even playing field and rewards those who play by the rules.”

Thinking Play Helping Lines Fields Behavior Rewards Bottom Favors Corporate Code Sufficient Legislation Bottom Line Playing Fields Principled

Author:Mary Robinson

“What the framers of the Constitution tried to achieve when they wrote that Constitution back in the 1700s was an independent federal judiciary. They wanted federal judges to be appointed by the president, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to serve for good behavior.”

Wanted President Achieve Advice Judging Behavior Constitution Independent Senate Consent Judiciary Framers Good Behavior Federal Judges

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“I could not kick heroin to save my life, literally, until I started telling my secrets. It was some of the clearest evidence I've ever found of anything. It was the only immediate change in behavior I've ever undergone. I told the most frightening truths, and I was free.”

Found Secret Behavior Evidence Kicks Frightening Heroin

Author:Melissa Febos

“At a glance, addiction, sex work, mad passion, and all forms of extreme behavior might look like pushing or trying to obliterate boundaries when, more honestly, they are a search for them. I want to find the endpoint, the place where my own powers end, so I can yield to something that I'm certain is bigger than me.”

Want Trying Looks I Can Ends Might Form Certain Passion Sex My Own Behavior Bigger Mad Addiction Extremes Honestly Boundaries Pushing Yield Glances Sex Work

Author:Melissa Febos

“S&M is just a set of practices that get classified as a single category, when more accurately they are a part of much larger set of behaviors: expressions of love, and self, and play, and even art. There is no hard line between "vanilla" sex and S&M sex, or any other kind of relation between people.”

People Kind Art Self Hard Play Sex Lines Practice Expression Behavior Relation Categories Vanilla Expressions Of Love

Author:Melissa Febos

“Behaviors and lifestyles that are classified as "normal" rarely get so generalized, public perception of heterosexual relationships, for instance, or of the "white" experience, allow for the infinite variety of experiences that exist under such headings, but people love to reduce the vastness of individuality and subjectivity within marginalized types of experience.”

People White Type Behavior Normal Perception Infinite Individuality Lifestyle Instance Variety Headings Subjectivity Vastness Marginalized

Author:Melissa Febos

“Drunk driving contains a far greater risk of violent death than the use or sale of illegal drugs, the societal response to drunk drivers has generally emphasized keeping the person functional and in society, while attempting to respond to the dangerous behavior through treatment and counseling.”

Persons Use Greater Risk Dangerous Drug Behavior Response Driving Violent Drunk Treatment Illegal Drivers Attempting Counseling Illegal Drugs Violent Death Drunk Driving

Author:Michelle Alexander

“The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.”

Humans Heart Real Problem Religion Economic Creation Behavior Economics Relation Seats Arena Human Relations Real Problems Economic Problems Economy And Economics

Book:The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

“Since Reagan, it's almost impossible to get funding for research on sexual pleasure. You can find sexual behavior research, but not sexual pleasure. And let alone lesbian or homosexual sexuality.”

Pleasure Impossible Behavior Research Sexuality Homosexual Funding

Author:Naomi Wolf

“You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of the time you'll get stereotyped as crazy, even if you're totally boring thirty percent of the time and just studious the other thirty percent of the time.”

People Ifs Knows Crazy Behavior Percent Boring Thirty Forty Studious

Author:Irvine Welsh

“I have done political things, I couldn't care less about politics. I have zero interest in politics, really. They don't allure me. I have no interest in them, because if I could believe the law could change people's behavior then I would become a politician. But only Christ can change the heart.”

People Ifs Believe Heart Done Care Law Political Interest Christ Politician Behavior If I Could Zero Allure Interest In Politics

Author:Rick Warren

“The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.”

Years Firsts Children Important Development Behavior Earning

Author:Shakira

“I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.”

People Way Humans Two Different Ends Possibility Behavior Raised Fascinated Human Behavior Different Place

Author:Ed Gass-Donnelly

“As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbor multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behavior. As a result, you can accomplish the strange feats of arguing with yourself, cursing at yourself, and cajoling yourself to do something - feats that modern computers simply do not do.”

Different Results Brain Modern Strange Battle Conversation Behavior Computer Accomplish Arguing Locked Multitudes Competing Ongoing Harbors Feats Factions Output Walt Cursing

Author:David Eagleman

“Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.”

Battle Behavior Outcomes Internals

Author:David Eagleman

“This is the hallmark of a robust biological system: political parties can perish in a tragic accident and the society will still run, sometimes with little more than a hiccup to the system. It may be that for every strange clinical case in which brain damage leads to a bizarre change in behavior or perception, there are hundreds of cases in which parts of the brain are damaged with no detectable clinical sign.”

“The left hemisphere acts as an "interpreter," watching the actions and behaviors of the body and assigning a coherent narrative to these events. And the left hemisphere works this way even in normal, intact brains. Hidden programs drive actions, and the left hemisphere makes justifications. This idea of retrospective storytelling suggests that we come to know our own attitudes and emotions, at least partially, by inferring them from observations of our own behavior.”

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it also serves as the main messenger in the reward systems, guiding a person toward food, drink, mates, and all things useful for survival. Because of its role in the reward system, imbalances in dopamine can trigger gambling, overeating, and drug addiction - behaviors that result from a reward system gone awry.”

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.”

Believe Behavior Driving Boat

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But then major sort of problems actually they're due to a lack of moral principle.”

Thinking Mind Humans May Problem Courses Natural Moral Principles Behavior Majors Dues Disaster Relate Human Behavior Moral Principles Natural Disaster Tsunami

Author:Dalai Lama

“I think that we have basically nothing in the field of human behavior. Maybe that is just a condition of temporary ignorance. But it may be that we are simply not intellectually equipped to develop such a theory.”

Thinking Humans May Conditions Fields Ignorance Theory Behavior Temporary Human Behavior

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I should say that Canada is one of the major criminals, not just the tar sands and so on, but even mining throughout the world, a lot of it is Canadian. It's extremely destructive, so an important thing for Canadians to do is curtail the predatory and destructive behavior of their own government and corporations. A carbon tax is one way of doing it.”

World Way Should Important Government Taxes Behavior Majors Important Things Criminals One Way Corporations Canada Sand Destructive Carbon Mining Predatory Carbon Tax Destructive Behavior

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They sometimes develop positive participatory schemes, sometimes not. We know from the studies of worker-owned plywood companies in the US, they can tend to develop conservative attitudes, not socialist attitudes. So even though I'm an advocate of further democratization of the workplace, we also need to be building larger structures.”

Knows Needs Sometimes Attitude Company Study Building Circumstances Behavior Structure Workers Conservative Capitalist Schemes Socialist Workplace Floating Replicate Democratization

Author:Gar Alperovitz

“I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior. If you go through a weekly Monday through Friday, it's all there. It's in how people on the sitcoms and cop shows talk to each other.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Looks Kind Children Persons Shows Media Television Behavior Men And Women Majority Criminals Cop Multiple Monday Friday Sitcom Gangsters Profanity Criminal Behavior

Author:Bill Cosby

“In Genesis, it is stated God walked on Earth. He was there on the level. After watching human behavior, he ascended having had enough of us and decided to watch over us instead.”

Humans Enough Earth Levels Watches Behavior Decided Human Behavior Genesis Had Enough

Author:Bill Cosby

“We are not responsible for the behavior of anyone that goes contrary to what we teach, any more than the Pope of Rome or the Archbishop of Canterbury or a religious leader who teaches moral law and values can be charged with the errant behavior of a parishioner or congregant who may violate their moral teachings. That is on the individual.”

May Law Values Individual Religious Leader Moral Teach Teaching Behavior Responsible Contrary Rome Pope Moral Law Religious Leaders Canterbury

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't do anything, then there is no point to worry. So in either case, worrying is an added suffering. But this does not mean of course that we should not be unhappy about injustice, abuse and other kinds of behavior that brings suffering upon others.”

Ifs Needs Should Kind Mean Doe Suffering Courses Can Do Cases Worry Circumstances Behavior Abuse Injustice Unhappy No Point Can Do Something Adverse

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“If you see a child with autistic-like behaviors at age two and three, the worst thing you can do is just let them sit and watch TV all day. That's just the worst thing you can do. You need to have a teacher working with that child, working on teaching language, working on social interaction, working on getting them interested in different things, and keeping their brain connected to the world.”

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