“Processes of avoiding the world within in order to try to regulate your behavior, or becoming entangled in your thoughts interfering with your ability to take advantage of what's around you, or losing contact with your values for fear that you'll know more about the places where you hurt - those kinds of processes are just normal psychological processes. And if you take the mode of mind that works great in 95 percent of your life and apply it within, it then implodes. It starts creating barriers, and that's true at work, it's true in our culture, true in our politics.” WorldTryingMindKindValuesCultureHurtAbilityBehaviorLosingPsychologicalBarriersInterfereAvoiding Author:Steven C. Hayes
“Antidepressant medications, you still have some depressive thoughts. Antipsychotic medications, you still have some psychotic symptoms for the vast majority of the people taking them. But it gives them a little separation, and it doesn't control his behavior as much when you have a sad feeling, difficult thought, an odd perceptual experience. We can teach people those exact skills in therapy, you get longer-term benefits and without the side effects. So don't be sold just because a commercial interest wants to sell you things.” PeopleGivingFeelingsDifficultInterestTeachBehaviorSeparationOddTherapyPsychoticDepressive Author:Steven C. Hayes
“The government ought to help out, because the average citizen can't go out and be doing reviews of the scientific literature. And focus on the processes that have low side effects and good long-term outcomes. Right now you're going to find those in the psychosocial area, in the therapy area, in the empirically supported treatments such as ACT or cognitive behavior therapy, behavior therapy. And go there first rather than going to the pill bottle as if it's going to be the end of your journey. Very often it's only going to help, and even only to a minor degree, and more is going to be needed.” HelpingLiteratureFocusJourneyBehaviorTherapyGood Long Author:Steven C. Hayes
“The bureaucratic nature of both capitalism and our government assures us that there are no checks and balances when it comes to justifying any and all behavior that either makes money and secures the supposed peace of the nation-state.” BalanceBehaviorCapitalismMaking Money Author:Tripp York
“I'm unhappy with the President Trump. I don't like his behavior, and I'm a Republican, and I don't like his policies because they're almost the antithesis of the American character of generosity, of charity, of welcoming, of helping, of taking risks. You think of the lives that were expended in World War I and World War II to help others, and they say now we'll draw up the bridge and we'll protect ourselves. We won't have a broader role in humanity.” ThinkingWorldWarCharacterHelpingHumanityPresidentRiskPolicyRepublicanProtectBehaviorCharityHelping OthersUnhappyWelcomeGenerosityWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War ITaking RisksAntithesis Author:Les Wexner
“I think I'm determined. And I think if you're determined, you're right. Your behavior is exactly the same when you're stubborn, except then you're wrong. And so, there's times when I'm wrong, and I'd say, "Well, you were the dark side of determined." But I think determination, you know, it's like have an idea, think about the idea, the risks involved. What does it take to get from here to there? And then once you make the choice, you just keep going.” ThinkingChoicesDarkRiskBehaviorDeterminationDeterminedKeep GoingStubbornDark Side Author:Les Wexner
“In fact, I am so happy to be turning 40 and finally having a reason to take responsibility for my own behavior. It's also worked for me in terms of my physical appearance and emotional make-up and people entrusting me to bring the things a role deserves. I don't know whether that's depth or being a curmudgeon or what.” PeopleReasonTermResponsibilityEmotionalBehaviorDeserveAppearanceTaking ResponsibilityPhysical Appearance Author:Josh Brolin
“What we really are trying to do day to day now is to wake up every day and think about more activist behavior - what we can do to move the needle on the climate crisis, whether it is calling legislators or trying to win the conversation with someone who might not see the issues the way do.” ThinkingTryingMovingWinningBehaviorWake UpCrisisActivist Author:Jon Shenk
“Once you realize there's less logic in human institutions than you once thought, you see the narrative potential in just about everything around you. Sometimes, in fact, it seems as if the human world runs on inefficiency and erratic behavior.” WorldSometimesRunningRealizingBehaviorLogicInefficiency Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“Unemployment is higher in Europe than in the United States and primarily concentrated in immigrant minority populations, so people are worried about what's going to happen and if American-style ghettos are emerging in Europe. There are some of the problems there that America sees associated with the lack of economic inclusion - family breakdown, gang behavior, and racial tensions. I get the sense that in Europe they are much more concerned about these issues than in the United States.” PeopleProblemEconomicBehaviorConcernedWorriedTensionInclusionGangEmergingBreakdownGhetto Author:William Julius Wilson
“If you don't have a conscience, what is your behavior like? Apparently, if you don't have a conscience, if you don't really . . . love, then the only thing that's left for you is the game - it's about controlling things.” BehaviorConscience Author:Martha Stout
“To learn to be charming is fairly easy - you can teach somebody to be charming and to learn human emotions - or to learn the behaviors that go with human emotions. A sociopath, a smart one, will study the way we emote, and will learn how to do that quite effectively.” EasyEmotionTeachStudyBehaviorSmartCharmingSociopath Author:Martha Stout
“You've got to have a vision and an intention and that will guide what you do. I call it devotion. Ask yourself, "Is this not moving me toward where we need to be?" I believe that's helpful because a vision pulls you forward and it keeps you focused. A vision for the day, for the week, for the month and a lifelong vision - whatever works for you. And then you govern your activities and your behaviors accordingly.” BelieveMovingI BelieveVisionWeekBehaviorIntentionFocusedDevotionHelpfulLifelong Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“That's why every society on the planet has very definite rules, ideas about how sex should be regulated, how sex should be expressed, what's okay, what's not okay. And I guess we do live in a place, and have for a long time, where there's more openness and there's more willingness to tolerate different kinds of behavior, but with that comes people creating other rules and other kinds of controls. It's always going to be a question of what's acceptable and what isn't and what's the danger point and what rouses people's contempt and what people are allowed to get away with.” PeopleKindLongDifferentDangerBehaviorOkayGet AwayWillingnessOpennessContemptDifferent KindsTolerateNot Okay Author:Mary Gaitskill
“If you're looking for like, a pure base for your behavior on stage, maybe it's better to say, "Yeah, you're not obliged to pretend. But, you're also obliged to not pretend." So you have access to both sides, if you will. It's never a pure binary thing, but you can pretend. If you have total agency as a performer, then both are at your disposal.” BehaviorBinary Author:Richard Maxwell
“I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.” ThinkingMeanInterestingBehaviorHuman BehaviorReally Interesting Author:Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
“I don't know what Bruce Willis has done in real life. We know actors have certainly had tirades - that's for sure. I never had troubles with him, but the big issue is really less about what Bruce is, as opposed to - this behavior has taken place, and sometimes it came out at something that had credibility, as opposed to, "No, I want to be fat and have a beard." Other people say, "I don't give a damn about the credibility. I paid $20 million. I want to see a movie star."” PeopleGivingRealSometimesDoneTakenTroubleBehaviorReal LifeMovie StarCredibilityBeard Author:Barry Levinson
“Most men love women. Most men are intrigued and bedeviled by them. Most men spend their lives dreaming about women. It's the most natural, normal thing in the world to do, but here comes the left and the Democrat Party trying to politicize even male-female relationships by inculcating into them things like feminism, proper political behavior.” MenWorldTryingDreamPoliticalNaturalPartyFeminismBehaviorDemocratIntrigued Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Having children changes your behavior. Your personality doesn't change, but you're more cautious of what you say and how you say it to start with-so that already changes things. My mind is not completely mine anymore. I used to be able to concentrate and achieve things. Now I find it much harder to focus, because it just seems that half your brain doesn't belong to you anymore. My kids are still little. Maybe it will change more when they're older, but I doubt it.” MindChildrenKidsBrainDoubtFocusAchievePersonalityBehaviorCautiousHaving Children Author:Vanessa Paradis
“Cynicism is an enormous problem. I'm actually a hopeful person. But the way to stay hopeful is to acknowledge and to not accept what is absolutely amoral, mentally ill behavior as normal.” ProblemAcceptingBehaviorIllAcknowledgeHopefulCynicism Author:Stephen Colbert
“I studied law before I became a filmmaker, and I actually have a great belief in the justice system and the rule of law. I think it's the thing that separates us from animals. I really believe in the rule of law because it's an attempt to bring rational accountability to human behavior, which has a great capability of becoming irrational.” ThinkingBelieveBeliefJusticeAnimalBehaviorRationalFilmmakerAccountabilityCapabilityIrrationalHuman BehaviorRule Of LawJustice System Author:Nick Broomfield
“We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.” FactsJudgingBehaviorReportersRecorders Author:Alfred Kinsey
“Politics right now is in a very dark place, and I think the only place for me is to do what I do - make films, create art, watch it as it evolves. Right now it's like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall, and a great fall is happening. The behavior seems to be really dumb.” ThinkingArtFilmFallDarkWallBehaviorDumbEvolveHumpty Dumpty Author:Robert Redford
“The Republicans don't want Donald Trump to define the Republican Party agenda. They are very loyal. They owe a lot to their donors. The donors hate Trump. The Chamber of Commerce hates Trump. All of these people that the Republicans think they can't get elected without don't like Trump. So it has been a stonewall. This behavior by the House and Senate Republican leadership isn't anything new. All you had to do was to listen what they were saying during the campaign.” PeopleThinkingHateHousePartyRepublicanBehaviorLoyalRepublican Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Anxiety is not a sin; it's an emotion. So don't be anxious about feeling anxious. Anxiety can, however, lead to sinful behavior. When we numb our fears with six-packs or food binges, when we spew anger like Krakatau, when we peddle our fears to anyone who will buy them, we're sinning.” FeelingsSinEmotionBehaviorAnxietyPrisonAnxiousNumbSinning Author:Max Lucado
“Trump has a mind that in many ways is always under duress, because he's always seeking to be accepted, loved. He sees himself as constantly victimized by others and by the society, from which he sees himself as fighting back. So there's always an intensity to his destructive behavior that could contribute to his false beliefs.” MindFightingBeliefBehaviorAccepted Author:Robert Jay Lifton
“I suppose I view my behavior in such a unique way. I frame it as an artist and maybe kind of make excuses for it. I suppose I romanticize my own life when I write. I always try to think whether it actually is quite romantic.” ThinkingWritingTryingKindArtistBehaviorUniqueExcuseBe Kind Author:Matthew Healy
“I think that people might watch reality television or what they see played out on media outlets and get ideas. We might be more anesthetized to divorce or bad behavior now because of what we see on television or on postings on TMZ. So it definitely could be filtering in to how we conduct ourselves.” PeopleThinkingRealityBehaviorDivorce Author:Laura Wasser
“When someone says "that resonates with me" what they are saying is "I agree with you" or "I align with you." Once your ideas resonate with an audience, they will change. But, the only way to have true resonance is to understand the ones with whom you are trying to resonate. You need to spend time thinking about your audience. What unites them, what incites them? Think about your audience and what's on their mind before you begin building your presentation. It will help you identify beliefs and behavior in your audience that you can connect with. Resonate with.” ThinkingTryingMindHelpingBeliefAudienceBuildingBehaviorAgreeEnd TimesSpend TimeThinking About You Author:Nancy Duarte
“I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside. They don't waste energy marching to the same drummer most of us do. It gives us an opportunity to look at things in a different way, which is the purest thing cinema can do.” PeopleGivingDifferentOpportunityEnergyInterestingBehaviorMost InterestingDrummer Author:Willem Dafoe
“Happiness is about what happens to you; and, to an extent, it's dependent on your circumstances, your behaviors, and your attitudes. But the joy of Christ is much, much bigger. The joy of Christ is about relationship with a person. It's something you have access to, but it's also something you must choose. Christian joy shows up not only in the happy times but also in times of trial and discouragement.” ChristianJoyChristAttitudeCircumstancesBehaviorDiscouragement Author:David Jeremiah
“People talk to me all the time about sexual harassment. This sort of behavior did not only happen in the past. And it's not in just the working class. It's in every industry. It's in the military. It's in politics.” PeoplePastMilitaryBehaviorWorking ClassTalk To MeHarassment Author:Niki Caro
“I believe that the behavior of too many of our corporations investment bankers and fund managers has jeopardized some of the trust that investors have had. It's not the economic engine that we need to focus on, but the need to make sure that our investors receive their fair share of the returns that that great economic system produces.” BelieveI BelieveFocusShareEconomicBehaviorInvestmentFundInvestors Author:John C. Bogle
“I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own. I love people and behaviors, and I'm interested and fascinated by why we do what we do. And I wanted to be a therapist, to be honest. Maybe wirking in film combines the two worlds, in a not super-linear way, but it definitely feeds both my two passions.” PeopleWorldSchoolFilmPassionCreativityCreativeHonestBehaviorBeing Honest Author:Moran Atias
“People who have undergone a loss get a fair amount of leeway on their behavior.” PeopleLossBehavior Author:Emily Yoffe
“Life is full of cycles that have a way of perpetuating themselves. Success and failure both feed on themselves. Things can go downhill quickly, with people bogged down by ineffective behavior and poor teamwork, unless leaders intervene to shift the cycle.” PeoplePoorLeaderBehaviorTeamworkSuccess And Failure Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“The behavior of people and the culture of an organization are very different in winning streaks and losing streaks. But what both have in common is their momentum - once winners' or losers' habits and culture take hold, they tend to perpetuate themselves.” PeopleDifferentCultureWinningCommonHabitBehaviorLosing Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“Change is difficult and it takes time. It is hard for people to change their own behavior, much less that of others. Change programs normally address attitudes, ideas, and rewards. But the behaviors of people in organizations are also strongly shaped by habits, routines, and social norms. Real change requires new power relationships, new work routines and new habits, not just intent.” PeopleRealDifficultAttitudeHabitBehaviorProgramTake TimeNormIt Takes Time Author:Richard P. Rumelt
“When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go through their lives in the middle, and people who are rational and balanced can't understand the opposite. I'm one who's in the extreme camp in almost every area of my life and I always have been. I've observed that I'm in a minority, but I never understand people who are measured.” PeopleBehaviorRationalObsessive Author:James Toback
“Homosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature, an inherent evil, and an act so heinous that it defies one's ability to describe it. The homosexual conduct of a parent - conduct involving a sexual relationship between two persons of the same gender - creates a strong presumption of unfitness that alone is sufficient justification for denying that parent custody.” EvilStrongParentAbilityCrimeBehaviorGenderDivorceJustificationHomosexualPresumption Author:Roy Moore
“Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified. And when such behavior emanates from the top of our government, it is something else. It is dangerous to a democracy.” DemocracyDangerousBehaviorReckless Author:Jeff Flake
“When you're a young person, you are biologically driven to believe you are immortal, and that's why you engage in all kinds of risky behavior you stop once you feel death's cruel breath on your neck. I think that as a straight white man in particular, I was tempted to believe that I was immortal and eternal because, after all, in this culture, straight white dudes are the heroes of every story that you see or read about with very rare exception. So how could the story go on without the hero, you know?” ThinkingMenBelieveKindCultureHeroBehaviorDrivenAll KindsExceptionImmortal Author:John Hodgman
“You're in a movie, so you have to think about how something plays. It's not like you're thinking about how an audience is going to react. You're trying to present the story. You're trying to illuminate the lives of these people in the story. So I'm thinking about how my behavior as this character best illuminates what's going on with them in this moment in time. I always say it's sort of the director's job. People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.” PeopleThinkingTryingMomentsCharacterEyeFilmAudienceLike YouBehaviorDirect Author:Julianne Moore
“You try to find the internal life, but a lot of it is creating it through physical behavior and figuring out the voice when you create as much of a past as you would in a naturalistic piece. But it's fun, because it's like you're learning something, learning some kind of physical skill.” TryingKindPastFunLike YouBehavior Author:Jennifer Jason Leigh
“The basic premise of taste, as Stephen Bayley, the cultural critic, said, is that taste is that which does not alienate your peers. Most people want to fit in with their tribe in some way or another, so they give off signals, whether it's with their clothes, their behavior, their car, their whatever, and gain status. Every tribe has a hierarchy, and that's what taste is: it's an unconscious display of who you are, and where you want to be.” PeopleGivingCarFitBehaviorWho You AreCriticsUnconscious Author:Grayson Perry
“Newcomers should be put in an established position where the expectations are known and help is available. New major assignments should mainly go to people whose behaviors and habits are well known and who have already earned trust and credibility.” PeopleHelpingHabitBehaviorExpectationsWell KnownCredibility Author:Edward Hallowell
“What I mean by it, and roughly what most biologists who talk about culture mean by it, is either behavior itself, or information that leads to behavior. Information that is picked up through social learning - so, from being with, watching, being taught by others. It's a way that individuals behave or get information about how they will behave that comes directly from the behavior of others.” MeanCultureIndividualBehaviorBehaveBiologist Author:Hal Whitehead
“I don't think in biology it's very controversial at all. Whether certain behavior is culture or is not culture is argued. I think virtually all biologists would agree that some animal behavior is culture. Bird song is a good example.” ThinkingSongCultureAnimalBehaviorBirdAgreeBiologyControversialBiologist Author:Hal Whitehead
“What I mean is, if you look at the behavior of an animal and ask, "Well, why did it do that?" and then consider the alternatives, those alternatives probably wouldn't be as successful at getting its genes around.” MeanAnimalSuccessfulBehavior Author:Hal Whitehead
“Acoustic ecology is the study of information systems: the shared acoustic environment and how species send and receive messages in this shared acoustic environment. What these messages mean - meaning, what are the consequences and the changes of behavior in any species. And it has as much to do with us individually and biologically as it does with the shaping of cultures and beliefs.” MeanCultureBeliefStudyEnvironmentBehaviorConsequenceEcology Author:Gordon Hempton