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“It's quite scary when academics start dictating to artists that they should be politically correct or follow certain rules of behavior - which means we have to start making dishonest work, which means it becomes didactic and propaganda in nature.”

Mean Artist Behavior Scary Propaganda Politically Correct

Author:Pieter Hugo

“Economics has increasingly become the science of human behavior in general, and it's all the more unlikely to think that it can possibly be value-free - and, in fact, it isn't. Economics rests on un-argued assumptions that need to be examined.”

Thinking Behavior Assumption Human Behavior

Author:Michael Sandel

“If you go back to Adam Smith, you find the idea that markets and market forces operate as an invisible hand. This is the traditional laissez-faire market idea. But today, when economics is increasingly defined as the science of incentive, it becomes clear that the use of incentives involves quite active intervention, either by an economist or a policy maker, in using financial inducements to motivate behavior. In fact, so much though that we now almost take for granted that incentives are central to the subject of economics.”

Today Policy Behavior Financial Invisible Granted Economist

Author:Michael Sandel

“I've moved away from writing about and describing actual experiences of sex work, whether mine or anybody else's, because the culture is obsessed with the behavior of sex workers. They want to figure out why they do what they do and who they are. What I'm trying to do is to shift the focus onto the producers of the anti-sex work discourse: the cops, the feminists, the anti-prostitution people. Those are the people whose behavior needs to change.”

People Writing Trying Culture Focus Behavior Moved Feminist Producers Obsessed Cop

Author:Melissa Gira Grant

“In Othello, Othello kills Desdemona, but no one reads that play as a model for their own behavior. In Lou Reed's case, you're listening to a song, and in my case you're reading about a life. Like Lou, I trust my audience to make their own moral determinations.”

Song Reading Moral Audience Listening Behavior Determination

Author:Anthony DeCurtis

“Obviously the bar is much higher now for a behavior to be scandalous. Social media has really changed the way people live. It's not a new impulse; it's just being enacted in a new way.”

People Changed Behavior Social Media Impulse

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“I think a fairly common behavior among fiction writers is that they want to help. They're generally charitable people. They're interested in the world. They're curious, they're empathetic. They understand suffering. They don't turn away from that. But what they do is essentially useless. Except for the sake of the thing itself.”

People Thinking World Helping Suffering Common Behavior Curious Charitable Empathetic

Author:Joshua Ferris

“Let's reach the students who will abide by a "yes means yes" standard in sexual behavior and reeducate them to use it. And as more and more of them use it, others will adopt it too. We're on our way to a new social norm and that's a beautiful thing.”

Mean Beautiful Students Behavior Beautiful Things Norm

Author:Vanessa Grigoriadis

“I think it's important for women to be patient with their men. Try not chastise them to the point where they never want to try again. Because it's inevitable - we're going to screw up. And this is not me as a man telling women to be patient. What I'm saying is, as a man, I know the only way I'm going to figure this stuff out is if I have the support of the woman I love. I will mess up and say the wrong thing and interrupt my wife because it's a learned behavior I've done my whole life. I don't have all the answers - all I'm trying to do is start a conversation.”

Thinking Men Trying Important Done Support Wife Behavior Patient My Wife Whole Life Mess Inevitable Be Patient Try Again

Author:Justin Baldoni

“I don't think there's one right way to do anything. There's no one best way to be a woman. There's no best way to be a mentor. I'm just trying to be me and be authentic and live my truth and be as inclusive and interested in other human beings as possible. I'm an actor by training, which means that I study human beings and human behavior. That's what I try to do and what I love to do.”

Thinking Trying Mean Study Behavior Training Mentor Human Behavior

Author:Elizabeth Banks

“There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans. There's evolutionary individual psychology, there's evolutionary social psychology. In Darwin's terms, evolution couldn't exist without variation, and variation is important in behavioral genetics. And so on, and so on. There are so many instances in which evolution actually sharpens the precision, I think, with which one can find out the importance of differences. We're interested in differences as well as commonalities.”

Thinking Important Different Individual Term Animal Psychology Evolution Behavior Importance Ecology Social Psychology Commonality

Author:Brian Boyd

“If the president Donald Trump had connected the Jerusalem question to some other positions, linking it to Israeli and Palestinian behavior or putting the Jerusalem statement in a larger context of U.S. policy, it could have potentially advanced the peace process. But I don't see how singling it out might help.”

Helping President Policy Behavior Palestinian Israeli

Author:Richard N. Haass

“I think our responsibility as political leaders today, is to push our economic leaders to change their investment behavior, to decide new things, and to help workers to change their jobs. And I think the mistake that Donald Trump decided to make is exactly the mistake we made in France and in Europe. Which was to resist to the change in order to protect the old jobs. What we have to protect is people, not jobs. If you want to protect people, you retrain them.”

People Thinking Helping Today Political Mistake Responsibility Leader Economic Protect Behavior Investment

Author:Emmanuel Macron

“I believe that education offers the fastest route to economic mobility. I grew up with a family of strong, accomplished, and educated women. I believe, as they say, that you can't be what you don't see, and since I saw a lot of smart women in my life, education being at the center, I just mimicked that behavior. There was never a question that I'd go to college. In fact, I was the last person in my family to get a master's degree, so that tells you I'm actually the underachiever!”

Believe Strong I Believe Economic College Behavior Smart My Family Educated Accomplished

Author:Eva Longoria

“To become "memorable" do things that are somewhat unexpected. Dress, or talk, in ways that draw attention. And mostly, don't follow all the "rule for behavior" so closely.”

Attention Behavior Memorable Unexpected

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.”

Thinking Behavior Excited Stupidity

Author:Martin Amis

“I see "demand creation" as a 20th-century construct that's bound up with advertising. It's an outmoded view of marketing that says, "First, we build a product or service, then we advertise it into people's lives." Embedded this view is the belief that companies control brands. This is a myth. My message all along has been that brands are actually created by customers, not companies. Companies only provide the raw materials - the products, messaging, behaviors - that people use these to create brands.”

People Belief Creation Behavior Marketing Myth Advertising Embedded

Author:Marty Neumeier

“I think, of the kind of erratic behavior that many of us feared once Trump came into office. And I think you're seeing evidence of that, even though, you know, some of the worst-case scenarios that we imagined have not yet, mercifully, come to pass. I mean, for example, he has not destroyed NATO. He has not launched a trade war with China. He has not lifted sanctions on Russia. In all those cases, in part, because his hands had been tied. And of course, it's only a year in, so he's still got time to go.”

Thinking Kind Mean War Office Behavior Evidence Trade Nato

Author:Max Boot

“Leaders instill purpose through their words and their actions. Their communications demonstrate a commitment to vision and mission, but their behaviors underscore its real importance. What a leader does is far more important than what he or she says. People want to see action and help achieve results.”

People Important Real Helping Action Purpose Leader Vision Achieve Communication Behavior Commitment Importance

Author:John Baldoni

“I think that we can all learn from what smart companies are doing. My objective is to demonstrate what's possible, even during tough economic times. This is a period of great business dislocation, but that means it's also the time to try new things. This will be a challenge for existing companies. But the behaviors of smart companies can be learned.”

Thinking Trying Mean Challenges Economic Behavior Smart Tough Great Business

Author:James A. Champy

“I used to believe that you could change the culture or behavior of a company. I still believe it's possible, but it is at least a five to ten year process, if you are successful at all. More recently, I have been attracted to the ideas of the behavioralist, Edgar Schein. Schein has argued that you cannot change the culture of a company, but you can use the culture of a company to create change. It's an interesting approach to overcoming resistance. And if you can change how a company does its work, you might eventually be able to change how its people think.”

People Thinking Believe Culture Interesting Successful Behavior Overcoming I Still Believe

Author:James A. Champy

“Most business leaders don't consider their own causality in the creation of problems. They fail to see that their company could have avoided breakdowns if they had acted differently. We tend to see problems as having been created by someone else or by the "economy". It's good to be a little introspective from time to time. Think about how your own behavior might have gotten your company into a problem, and how it may help to get you out.”

Thinking Helping Problem Leader Economy Failing Creation Behavior Breakdown Introspective

Author:James A. Champy

“As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.”

Sports Known Issues Clear Player Risk Football Becoming Behavior Suicide Mental Health Criminals Former League Dementia Health Issues Criminal Behavior

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free-throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.”

May Has Beens Ends School Wealth Talent Behavior Opposites Athlete Covered Unusual Bats Incidents Spectrum Exhibits Sinking Prestige Overlooked Suspended Bad Behavior Free Throw Covered Up

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“I would not say that ethical behavior is not possible for the atheist or agnostic. It is. A couple of pretty good examples are Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre. However, I will have to say that if we take the human lot as a whole, these two men must be seen as exceptions.”

Men Couple Behavior Atheist Exception Ethical Agnostic

Author:Huston Smith

“Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.”

Has Beens Differences Study Personality Behavior Ideals Meaningful Traits Twins Womb Innate Identical Labs Matching Operating Systems Identical Twin

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.”

Mind Looks Language Brain Influence Particular Behavior Scientist Structure Polyglots

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“The vexing thing about human behavior is that when we say we know we should do something, we really and truly do know it. It's hard to be 50 lbs. overweight or smoke a pack a day or feel miserable every moment you spend at work and not understand in a deep and primal way that change is in order - and that in some cases it could even save your life.”

Knows Way Feels Should Humans Hard Moments Order Cases Behavior Miserable Smoke Packs Human Behavior Primal Overweight

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“If you study the behavior or the attitude of Syria, Iran, and U.S., you understand that these three countries can't come to terms with each other.”

Country Term Attitude Study Behavior Syria

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“I have generally not responded to sexism if it's about me. And I have responded if it's about somebody else, because if women in general are being degraded, are being dismissed, then I can respond in a way that demonstrates I'm not taking it personally but I'm really serious about rejecting that kind of behavior.”

Kind Serious Behavior Sexism

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.”

Thinking Race Judging Behavior Refuse

Author:Dean Koontz

“The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.”

Life Persons Science Order Decision Situation Special Behavior Madness Strategy Schizophrenic

Author:R. D. Laing

“No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.”

People America Mother Culture Inspiring Behavior Mothers Day Bad People

Author:Anne Lamott

“I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior; or how to save and fix and rescue; or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.”

People Said Ideas Running Plans Heard Creation Huge Behavior Bottom Mess Good Ideas Rescue Desperation

Author:Anne Lamott

“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.”

Mind Literature Peace Prove Behavior Inner Peace Peace Of Mind Nervousness

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

Source: Last Chance To See

“There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.”

Knows Believe Humans Littles Real Done Might I Believe Courage Behavior Courageous Pretending Requirements Human Behavior Real Things Be Courageous

Author:David Letterman

“What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.”

People Self Choices Interesting Effects Behavior Sense Of Self

Author:Laura Linney

“I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.”

Humans Important Wanted Sports Difficult Psychology Behavior Aspect Medicine Affair Athlete Links Aggression Intriguing Neurologists

Author:Roger Bannister

“I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.”

Humans Ideas Behavior Exciting Human Behavior

Author:John Banville

“I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a story... 'The Giver' or any other... is simply an exploration of the nature of behavior: why people do what they do, how it affects others, how we change and grow, and what decisions we make along the way.”

People Thinking Way Love Writing Book Stories Age Language Grows Decision Behavior Exploration Fascinated Giver Tick Decisions We Make

Author:Lois Lowry

“Consumers now have a voice. And the fact that consumers can be creators, producers and distributors means they can push back against brands to punish them for their socially irresponsible behavior or reward them for their responsible behavior.”

Mean Facts Voice Behavior Responsible Rewards Creator Producers Brands Consumers Irresponsible Distributors

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don’t need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.”

Needs Looks Self Facts Might Example Behavior Capitalism Wide Harm Serving Disregard Gluttony Self Serving

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.”

Voice Ability Influence Behavior Consumers Corporate Buying Buying Power

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“Concerned consumers are realizing that they can use social media to organize themselves around shared values to start effective movements. Social media gives them a sounding board to share ideas, as well as a means to punish irresponsible corporate behaviors.”

Giving Wells Mean Ideas Use Values Social Realizing Share Media Movement Behavior Concerned Social Media Consumers Corporate Boards Organize Irresponsible Shared Values

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.”

Self Law Certain Social Democracy Duty Type Conflict Behavior Abandon Contracts Democracies Have Social Contract

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“As a function of the easy access to information provided by the Internet, and the ease with which it can be shared thanks to social media, consumers are now better informed as to the behavior of brands and the multiple global crises we face.”

Faces Social Easy Media Information Internet Behavior Function Crisis Social Media Access Thanks Brands Consumers Ease Multiple Access To Information Easy Access

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.”

Needs Behinds Company Behavior Responsible Corporate Executives Entity Veils Irresponsible

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.”

Ifs Wells Moving Known Support Return Higher Equal Behavior Standards Responsible Investment Traditional Corporations Fund Mutual Retirement Well Known Higher Standards Mutual Fund

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.”

Humans Self Self Esteem Keys Personality Behavior Human Behavior Cybernetics Human Personality Psycho Cybernetics Personality Types Behavior Change

Book:PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS

Source: PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS

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