“The core philosophy we share with leaders is that everyone can develop the qualities in themselves. We all have strengths, but where we have gaps, we can make small changes in our behavior that make a big difference in how others see us as leaders.” PhilosophyQualityLeaderShareBehaviorHaving Strength Author:Suzanne Bates
“I urge people not to think in terms of "solutions," but in terms of intelligent responses to the quandaries and predicaments that we face. And there are intelligent responses that we can bring forth. But when I hear the word "solution," I always suspect that there's a hidden agenda there. And the hidden agenda is: "Please, can you please tell us how we can keep on living exactly the way we're living now, without having to really change our behavior very much?" And that's sort of what's going on in this country. And it's not going to work.” PeopleThinkingCountryTermBehaviorSolutionsIntelligentResponseGoing To Work Author:James Howard Kunstler
“We are getting close to the point where as every platform of tech that has any level of scale gets bought by either Google or Facebook or sometimes Microsoft. We are getting to the point where we see some oligopoly in terms of behavior online, and that it's really problematic because the oligopolies are completely non transparent, they are terrible in terms of labor and economic equality and they support systems of surveillance. It can create a world where we are all placed in bubbles, where the systems themselves can be manipulated by people who don't have our best interests in mind.” PeopleWorldMindSometimesTermInterestSupportEconomicTerribleBehaviorLaborOnlineBubblesGoogle Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“My view is that friendship permeates human life and is involved in almost everything we think, feel, and do. For that very reason, there is no behavior that is characteristic of friendship. Two people can engage in the very same behavior - visiting someone in hospital, for example - and yet only one of them might be doing so out of friendship; moreover, friends can be doing absolutely anything together, even quarrel or fight. That means that it is difficult, if not impossible, to recognize a friendship simply on the basis of what people do.” PeopleThinkingMeanReasonTogetherFightingDifficultImpossibleBehavior Author:Alexander Nehamas
“Loving ourselves is about acceptance, not always liking and feeling comfortable. In the same way I love my fiancé, I love him but don't always like his behavior. I don't always like what he says. But I accept him. I accept him because of these things. It doesn't mean I don't want our relationship to grow or progress. But I don't feel the need to change him. When I accept him for him, we grow naturally, and the same for our own self-love.” MeanFeelingsAcceptingProgressAcceptanceBehaviorOur RelationshipI Love Him Author:Danielle Tabor
“If your partner asks you if something bothers you, and something bothers you, the best thing you can do is say, "Yes, it bothers me." Otherwise you create a situation where they think everything is fine, continue with the offending behavior, while you build up a secret reservoir of resentment that will eventually come pouring out, to their shock.” ThinkingSecretSituationBehaviorBotherResentment Author:Mallory Ortberg
“Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes learned behavior.” BabyBehavior Author:Ari Graynor
“Many women are harassed, one in three between the ages of 18 and 34, by one poll. And we need to figure out if, in fact, we are going to enable them to come forward with their complaints, as opposed to enabling harassers and abusers to continue their behavior.” AgeBehavior Author:Anita Hill
“I think the Russians have played now for some time the role of providing cover for Bashar al-Assad's behavior. The alternative explanation that the Russians put forth is simply not plausible.” ThinkingBehaviorExplanation Author:Rex W. Tillerson
“I didn't have a ton of role models back in 1998. So, when I was looking to get in, it was really just looking up at all the men who were out there. When you're not seeing women - when you're breaking into anything - it's like, "Well, this is what the men do and how they act, so we're going to just emulate that behavior."” MenHe ManBehaviorRole Models Author:Alyssa Mastromonaco
“Obstruction, basically, is whether you corruptly influence, obstruct or impede the administration of justice. You tell a chief law enforcement officer get, you know, back off my friend - or I hope you back off my friend and then when he doesn't, you fire him, clearly, that isn't - that is - fits the behavior of obstruction. The question of whether or not you can prosecute the president is open.” PresidentJusticeInfluenceFitBehaviorLaw Enforcement Author:Keith Ellison
“I'm never trying to make a statement about morality ever. If there's a statement to be made, it's "People are complicated. They do things that may hurt other people, or exploit other people, but they may do them for the right reasons, or out of desperation." I don't judge that sort of "bad" behavior. I'm only interested in a world where people break outside of the norm, and I believe people do whatever they have to do to relieve themselves of pain. I just want to watch and see how that plays out.” PeopleWorldTryingBelieveReasonPainI BelieveHurtBreakJudgingMoralityBehaviorComplicatedDesperationNorm Author:Liz W. Garcia
“A lot of times, when you're acting, you have to explain things to the audience, and it's boring work to do that. It's really hard to make that interesting. I like the discovery of characters. I think people are smart. Audiences are intelligent and can figure things out by just watching behaviors.” PeopleThinkingCharacterInterestingActingAudienceBehaviorSmartIntelligentBoring Author:Andie MacDowell
“We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking, drugs, and other destructive behaviors. But as we move from childhood to adulthood, we find the peer pressure changes. Daniel 3:2 notes "the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces" were there. I'm sure more than one of them thought they needed to keep their job with all of its benefits. Not much has changed in two-and-a-half millennia.” WorldChildrenMovingChildhoodChangedJudgingDrugBehaviorOur ChildrenDrinkingAdulthoodGrandchildrenPeer PressureChildren And Grandchildren Author:O. S. Hawkins
“The reality is that living digitally rewires our brains for perpetual motion, shallow surface thinking, and compulsive/addictive behaviors. Because our world is only going to become more tech-driven with each passing day, unless we find ways to counterbalance these detrimental effects, we'll remain spiritual babes, drinking milk for the rest of our lives instead of the solid food God has for us.” ThinkingWorldRealitySpiritualBrainBehaviorDrinkingShallow Author:Tricia Rhodes
“Neural science, which is the study of the brain, tells us that we have up to one billion brain cells with thousands of branches that communicate with each other much like a complex highway system. The more we attend to something, or the more we engage in certain behaviors, the more those particular cells communicate and the pathways between them deepen. This is how our values, our beliefs, and our motivations are actually formed.” MotivationValuesBeliefBrainStudyBehaviorCommunicate Author:Tricia Rhodes
“If I ever succumbed to the demon on my shoulder going, "You should get something special because you're famous," that is the moment that my behavior will be caught on social media for all time. I'm even afraid to use it to get a reservation. This is the person who will tweet, "Can you believe what this a-hole did?"” BelieveMomentsSpecialBehaviorSocial MediaAll TimeDemonTweet Author:Stephen Colbert
“I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.” DifferentPoliticianBehaviorBehaveHuman Behavior Author:Stephen Colbert
“Maybe people are not able to define their fears. But they have them, and it shows from their behavior. There is so much frustration and anger.” PeopleBehaviorFrustration Author:Andre Vltchek
“I think social media can be harmful and helpful at the same time. I started in 2003 ... back then, we didn't have the connection to the rest of the world that we have now. The fact that we can make bad behavior more public, it makes us more aware.” ThinkingWorldBehaviorSocial MediaHelpful Author:Cristela Alonzo
“Whether low-income people are dealing with access to veteran's benefits, or a protective order to guard against domestic violence, or a way to guard against the loss of their home due to foreclosure and unscrupulous behavior by mortgage providers, there's no way they can afford a lawyer. And that's a serious problem. Because that erodes respect for law, it erodes the prospects for justice.” PeopleProblemHomeJusticeLossViolenceSeriousBehaviorLawyerDomestic ViolenceMortgage Author:Martha Minow
“I think that we see some cities that have developed living wage ordinances. I think that we see some efforts to actually put real restrictions on unscrupulous behavior by creditors. I think that the Consumer Finance Agency is a reflection of a political reaction to the abuses behind the financial disaster. I hope the system will continue to react.” ThinkingRealPoliticalEffortBehaviorReflectionAbuseFinancialDisasterFinance Author:Martha Minow
“I visit T-Mobile call centers. We've got about 18 major call centers in the US, and before I was CEO, I heard that no CEO had gone to physically visit them. I go in, they meet me outside, we take selfies as I stand like a piece of furniture, I tell them about how things are going - but most importantly, I say thank you and help them see that their behavior and their work has driven the culture of the company that's changed the industry and the whole world. It's a bit of a love affair.” WorldHelpingCultureChangedBehaviorAffairDrivenCeoLove AffairSaying Thank You Author:John J. Legere
“As you know, in this democracy, in order to have a healthy democracy, we have to get to the common good. But the only way to get to the common good is if we have a common set of facts, which we don't seem to have today, and we have a common level of decency. And my problem with the president and what happened today and why I think it affects the country as a whole is, first, we bring up our kids better than this. We teach them not to do this. We tell them not to do this, and it is not the right standard of behavior.” ThinkingCountryProblemKidsTodayPresidentCommonTeachDemocracyHealthyBehaviorDecencyCommon Good Author:Matthew Dowd
“Well, Americans expect our president to be human beings, and as imperfect as all of us are. They expect us to make mistakes and all that. But one thing the American public likes is, if you make a mistake, you do that, you cross that line that they expect you to behave under, then you apologize or then you correct that behavior and said you have learned, you are going to do better, you are going to achieve better, and you are going to serve a higher purpose than that.” PurposePresidentMistakeAchieveBehaviorBehaveMaking MistakesImperfectApologizing Author:Matthew Dowd
“There is an obvious evolutionary explanation for the scarcity of altruistic saints: Without a strong predilection for their own interests, our ancestors would have been unlikely to survive, reproduce, and give their own offspring a chance of doing the same. Now conditions have changed and for most of us, surviving and reproducing isn't such a struggle but we still carry the genes of our ancestors and they influence - not determine, but influence - our behavior.” GivingStrongInterestChanceStruggleInfluenceChangedBehaviorSaintDetermineObviousExplanationAncestorSurvivingOffspring Author:Peter Singer
“Most people who are on a spiritual path realize their thoughts are crucial to their experiences. If you have negative thoughts, you draw and attract negative experiences to yourself. But knowing that and ruling your behavior by it can seem like two different things.” PeopleDifferentSpiritualRealizingPathBehaviorNegativeNegative Thoughts Author:Doreen Virtue
“Behaviorism is sometimes criticized as encouraging unethical behavior. For example, most organizations offer rewards for increasing revenue and threat of punishment, perhaps firing if you don't "make your number."” SometimesBehaviorThreat Author:Marty Nemko
“I want to share that I had and still do, and a great relationship with Angela Ahrendts. She was the CEO of Burberry. One of the things that I saw her do at Burberry was that every person she screened for a job, they had to go through the trust test. Do they understand what trust even means. Do they consider it in their life. If people didn't pass that part of the test, they didn't get into Burberry, because she wanted a team. It was extraordinary to be with her, because she brought them to the height of their best behaviors, including trust, which is the most important thing here.” PeopleMeanImportantTeamShareBehaviorExtraordinaryCeoGreat Relationship Author:Judith E. Glaser
“There are so many fantastic roles, but the ones that have always drawn me to them are the loners who, for whatever reason, never quite fit in and knew it and had to find their own way. I've always been drawn to that, for some reason. I've always been drawn to that sad, isolated place, but what it produces in behavior is something else, entirely. For whatever reason, I'm drawn to these people. Essentially, I think what draws me is that they are survivors against rather considerable odds.” PeopleThinkingReasonFitBehaviorFantasticSurvivorNever QuitLoner Author:Ann Dowd
“I think aging is underrated. As you grow older, you have perspective and you realize just how fortunate you are to be working. To be working with the people I've had the chances to work with, I honestly feel like the most fortunate person in the world. I think it's hugely important when you work to bring with you that spirit, which includes and immense sense of gratitude. How that translates into behavior is just to bring your energy, your good spirit and your appreciation, and do your homework and really listen to the person in front of you.” PeopleThinkingWorldImportantSpiritEnergyRealizingChancePerspectiveGratitudeBehaviorAgingAppreciationHonestlyTranslateHomework Author:Ann Dowd
“Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.” MindStupidBehaviorArrogant Author:Gene Weingarten
“The time is always right to do what is right.” InspirationalTimeEvilFreedomInspiringBusinessAttitudeResponsibilityOne ThingPositivePositive ThinkingKingsHonorIntegrityBehaviorStandardsEthicsIntelligenceCivil RightsThings To DoRight ThingRighteousnessRighteousAmerican DreamSelf DisciplineBadassBlack HistoryRight PlaceCivil Rights MovementBaptistsDoing The Right ThingGood CharacterPeace And JusticeDoing RightBlack History MonthHonesty IntegrityHonesty And IntegrityBlack History Month InspirationalIntegrity And CharacterHonest And IntegrityIntegrity CharacterHonor And IntegrityAfrican American HistoryPrecious TimeMoral EthicsKings And LoveLeadership IntegrityGood KingsBlack History InspirationalSocial GoodLife DeterminationInspirational CharacterKwanzaaProper TimeEthics And IntegrityLiving RightAfrican American History MonthBlack InspirationalSpiritual IntegrityMoral IntegrityMorals And IntegrityAfrican American Civil RightsTime Is PreciousInspirational HistoryPositive BehaviorRight TimingAlways Being Right Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Often if you are very, very close with someone, sometimes it does not read. In effect, your dynamic onstage is defused. You share too much onstage. There's sort of a blurring of behavior that doesn't read to the audience as chemistry.” SometimesAudienceShareBehaviorChemistry Author:Jessica Hecht
“We are not buried in history, but surrounded by it. You can't avoid our behavior being shaped by it, to a considerable degree. We have this fantasy that we are free of history. This allows us not to see the circumstances, the historical circumstances of other people.” PeopleFantasyCircumstancesBehaviorHistorical Author:Russell Banks
“Yes, creative people are more prone to addiction or addictive behavior. But, equally as prone is your mailman, your mother, your brother, your friend, the guy who does your banking. It's everywhere. The thing that happens in the press sometimes is Whitney Houston. She was just an addict. Just like your uncle Steve.” PeopleSometimesMotherGuyCreativeBrotherLike YouBehaviorAddictionAddictCreative People Author:Kristen Johnston
“The Iranians have a lousy government, so therefore their economy is lousy, even though they have significant oil revenues. So I am convinced that together, we can, with the French, with the British, with the Germans and other countries, democracies around the world, we can affect Iranian behavior. But have no doubt, but have no doubt that the Iranians continue on the path to the acquisition of a nuclear weapon. And it is a threat not only in this region but around the world.” WorldCountryTogetherEconomyDemocracyPathDoubtBehaviorThreatSignificantNuclear WeaponsIranian Author:John McCain
“We want to work with the Russians. But we also have every right to expect the Russians to behave in a fashion and keeping with a - with a - with a country who respects international boundaries and the norms of international behavior.” CountryFashionBehaviorBoundariesBehaveNorm Author:John McCain
“Many quantum physics are realizing or hypothesizing that consciousness is not a byproduct of evolution as has been suggested. Or for that matter, an expression of our brains, although it expresses itself through our brains. But consciousness is the common ground of existence that ultimately differentiates into space, time, energy, information and matter. And the same consciousness is responsible for our thoughts, for our emotions and feelings, for our behaviors, for our personal relationships, for our social interactions, for the environments that we find ourselves in, and for our biology.” FeelingsEnergyRealizingCommonEmotionExistenceBrainConsciousnessEnvironmentEvolutionBehaviorResponsiblePhysicsBiologyQuantum PhysicsSocial Interaction Author:Deepak Chopra
“The themes that run through all my work are that consciousness is the ultimate reality; and that by understanding consciousness, you understand everything about yourself, about perception, about creativity, about behavior, about relationships. By understanding consciousness, you have the ability to create anything in your world. And you have the ability to influence also the collective consciousness to not only bring about personal healing, but social transformation, and ultimately healing our planet, which happens to be extremely wounded.” WorldRealityRunningUnderstandingAbilityHealingConsciousnessCreativityInfluenceBehaviorPerceptionUltimateTransformationAbout Yourself Author:Deepak Chopra
“Even after the age of 50 it was impossible for me to see my mother as a human being. I felt she was a monster, and she had subtly been influencing my behavior and my thoughts and my dreams for so long that she was kind of a monster; she was a demon. And when I brought her back to life, I could feel that malevolent presence around me again, that woman who was totally incapable of giving nurturing to anybody, and, you know, her selfishness and her withdrawn indifference to everything but her own needs.” GivingKindLongDreamAgeMotherImpossibleInfluenceBehaviorSelfishnessIndifferenceDemonMy ThoughtsNurturing Author:David Small
“So much of our politics is stuck in patterns of response that aren't working. When student performance is declining in schools, we implement more controls, more testing, more "accountability," more rigor. We apply even more of those things, from security systems to control of students' behavior through pharmaceutical drugs. That's a situation in which doing is only making things worse. You may have to go through a phase of de-programming, letting go of old habits, coming to stillness, before you can even see what the pattern of action was, and what alternatives there might be.” ActionSchoolSituationSecurityStudentsHabitDrugLetting GoBehaviorResponseStuckAccountabilityStillnessPharmaceutical Author:Charles Eisenstein
“We can't change the fossil fuel companies' behavior in isolation from the rest of the industrial system. As long as they have customers, they're going to continue to operate, whether or not we divest of their stock. However, divesting might be helpful in terms of disrupting the story that what these companies do is perfectly okay. This situation differs from apartheid in a key regard though: racial equality in South Africa was no threat whatsoever to capitalism as we know it. Ending the fossil fuel era is a much deeper change.” LongTermSituationBehaviorCapitalismOkayThreatIsolationHelpfulSouth AfricaFossil FuelApartheid Author:Charles Eisenstein
“Are you going to divest in the banks and pension funds? Plenty of people are willing to invest in stock of those companies. You can argue that when a lot of people divest, it makes the stock price artificially low, which makes their price-to-earnings ratio more favorable, which makes it a better investment for the people who don't give a damn - - and is it really going to change corporate behavior? It begins to create a climate of antagonistic opinion, the result might be that the corporate executives will retreat even more into their own selfjustifying narratives.” PeopleGivingOpinionBehaviorInvestmentArguingPlentyFundPension Author:Charles Eisenstein
“Sometimes people will have a heart attack or some devastating personal loss, and after that, their political views change completely, and their behavior changes completely. It's not because somebody persuaded them to look at the graph on CO2 and temperature, and they finally saw the evidence and were persuaded. Something else changed that allowed them to see and to hear. What is that something else? How can we cultivate that in people without them having to go through a heart attack? The interpersonal things we do change the substructure of our systems. They are political.” PeopleHeartSometimesPoliticalLossChangedBehaviorEvidenceHeart AttackPolitical View Author:Charles Eisenstein
“If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I love to be on board. I think anything that resonates with history, as does The Jungle Book and Watership Down, reflects patterns of behavior, power struggles, deprivation, migration, survival, joy, love, betrayal, and all of these things. It's tragic that children are encouraged to ignore history. We ignore history and any literature that is historically based in history. Even though both of those films involved animals, of course they reflect human behavior.” ThinkingChildrenBookFilmJoyLiteratureLove IsAnimalStruggleBehaviorSurvivalBetrayalTragicHuman BehaviorJunglePower Struggle Author:Ben Kingsley
“We have literature indicating that overwhelmingly, health is influenced by a very short list of modifiable behaviors topped by three: tobacco use, physical activity and dietary pattern. You could modify those three things; you can change people's fate. I wanted to change those. Smoking cessation, important but relatively simple - a lot of people are working on that. Physical activity: important to me, important to health but also relatively simple. I like nutrition. It's complicated; you really need to learn a lot of stuff to be an expert there.” PeopleImportantLiteratureSimpleFateBehaviorComplicatedSmokingNutritionTobacco Author:David Katz
“If we repeal Obamacare, it's the Wild West, and then you're gonna see the traditional manner and behavior of Washington kick into gear and start trying to craft something.” TryingBehaviorWild West Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We just fight our way through it. But you can't just get up and walk out without repeating the behavior over and over.” FightingBehavior Author:Sally Field
“The only way major change in environmental policy is going to happen, the only way, is if there is a very strong, very active popular movement that demands it and such a movement would be unparalleled because it would be a popular movement that says, "Raise our taxes so that we change our behavior."” StrongPolicyTaxesBehaviorEnvironmentalVery Strong Author:Dale Jamieson