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Source: Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers

“Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed.”

Looks Action Degrees Behavior Concepts Sick Sickness Relative Symptoms Desirable Functionality

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.”

Persons Taught Behavior Racism Characteristics Our Society Racist Racism And Prejudice Learned Behavior Unique Characteristics

Author:Alex Haley

“By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.”

People Knows Whole Sin Missing Prove Behavior Solutions Deserve Strive Code Serving God Knowing God God's Love Gift From God

Book:What's So Amazing about Grace?

Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?

“Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.”

Use Certain Parent Attitude Limits Goodness Behavior Obedience Use Of Power

Book:Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?

Source: Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?

“When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of the painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe.”

“Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.”

Thinking Humans Stories Emotion Behavior Medicine Backgrounds Range Cop Human Behavior Human Emotions

Author:Tess Gerritsen

“Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.”

Self Values Interest Behavior Driven Assumption Economist Preference Self Interest

Book:The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture

Source: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture

“Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.”

Mean Persons Opportunity Successful Behavior Models Weight Management Lifestyle Permanent Life Changing Family And Friends Arena Really Mean Great Opportunity Permanent Change

Author:Francis Collins

“Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)”

People Years Two Stage Objects Behavior Urges Two Years Anarchy Compulsion Primal Two Year Olds Tics Tourettes

Book:Vintage Sacks

Source: Vintage Sacks

“If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members”

Ifs Levels Existence Members Behavior Bases Ethical Efficient Norm High Level Ethical Behavior

Author:Francis Fukuyama

“People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion.”

People Thinking Mind Remember Form Subjects Personality Behavior Notion Very Good Sentences Impression Agents Abstract Traits Really Beautiful

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.”

Humans Body Space Behavior Flying Flight Lacking Human Body Good Science Space Flight

Author:Charles Simonyi

“The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.”

People Ifs Giving Has Beens Simple Prove Behavior Smart Tools Affirmation Exhibits Prove It

Author:Biz Stone

“And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.”

Way Humans Human Beings Behavior Instinct Intellect Noble Aspiration Aggressive Sophisticated Rise Above Chimpanzees

Author:Jane Goodall

“Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.”

Children Cry Behavior Negative Reinforcement Fussing Positive Reinforcement Negative Behavior

Book:The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir

“It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.”

Source: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

“Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.”

People Difficult Amount Easier Behavior Notes Come Up Excuse Stealing Posts Justify Cheating Cash Cheat Petty Small Amounts Post It Notes

Author:Dan Ariely

“When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.”

Looks Persons Body Faces Emotion Brain Behavior Skins Collections Posture

Author:Antonio Damasio

“In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.”

Done Limits Behavior Majors Investment Setting Settings Arrangements Monitoring

Book:Governing the Commons

Source: Governing the Commons

“People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason, in a way that animals can’t do.”

People Way Reason Past Belief Imagination Animal Behavior Moved Making Changes

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?”

Ifs Needs Law Passion Names Social Born Religious Behavior Greed Hunger Obvious Envy Lust Narcissism Secular Meanness Anti Social

Book:A Dark Time in America

Source: A Dark Time in America

“That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.”

Humans Religious Situation Moral Environment Behavior Training Genes Human Behavior External Environment

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.”

Knows Want Humans Moments Behavior Normal I Want You Human Behavior

Author:Craig Newmark

“Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.”

Persons Order Teach Missing Behavior Concepts Logic Oneself Manners Civilized Propriety Civilized Behavior Miss Manners

Book:Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children

Source: Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children

“When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibiting some other behavioral aberration. Of course, now we know that's just normal Aspergian behavior, but back then other people thought it was weird, so of course I did, too. One day, for some reason, she decided to try petting my arm, and I immediately stopped rocking and fidgeting. The result was so dramatic, she never stopped. It didn't take long for me to realize the calming effect, too. I like being petted and scratched. "Can you pet me?" I say when I sit next to her.”

“Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals dont think in a language. Its sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. Its putting these sensory based memories into categories.”

Thinking Language Memories Animal Talking Behavior Smell Categories Autism Sensory Animal Behavior

Author:Temple Grandin

“One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.”

Social Process Steps Behavior Species Patterns Saving Range Diets Threatened Mating Social Behavior

Author:Dian Fossey

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