“All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.” MenShouldImportantRealRememberAmountBehaviorSingingEvidencePatriotismPatrioticFlagsAllegianceAnthemFerventMeasure Of A ManNational AnthemFlag WavingSinging The National Anthem Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.” BloodAmountDrugBehaviorTestsTreatsPressureObjectivesSugarAutismDiabetesBlood PressureHigh Blood Pressure Author:Temple Grandin
“But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.” MenReligionStuffAmountHolyBehaviorIntellectualObligationDisgustingHoly ManSanctimonious Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“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.” PeopleDifficultAmountEasierBehaviorNotesCome UpExcuseStealingPostsJustifyCheatingCashCheatPettySmall AmountsPost It Notes Author:Dan Ariely
“Everybody has a gas-guzzling car because people like SUVs. They would like SUVs if they were hybrid vehicles that had the same horsepower and used less gasoline. Instead, what the auto manufacturers are doing is building SUVs that are hybrid vehicles that use the same amount of gasoline because they up the horsepower. That's a decision that they make to market irresponsible economic behavior. The American people like the SUVs, they have kids, they, they need them, they get around in them, but we have options.” PeopleIfsNeedsUseKidsUsedDecisionEconomicCarBuildingAmountBehaviorGasVehicleIrresponsibleHybridGasolineSuvsHorsepower Author:William J. Clinton
“Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.” HumansWellsCertainHuman NatureAmountDisciplineBehaviorEternalBuiltHorseMathematicsInvestingStuckPredictionsHuman BehaviorDiagnosisBasicsHorse Sense Author:Charlie Munger
“I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.” ThinkingChildrenMotherCertainSocialAmountBehaviorStandardsPressureRegardOur ChildrenConformUnnaturalSocial Pressure Author:Jillian Medoff
“We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.” IfsWantWritingYearsBelieveHumansReadingEasyForgetPleasureEffortTalkingPracticeAmountWalkingTruth IsActivityBehaviorEatingPerformancesFundamentalsInstantExpertsGratificationTemptingHuman ActivityReading And WritingTuningInstant Gratification Author:Donald A. Norman
“The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior-or lack of integrity-a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain.” PersonsInspirationPainAmountIntegrityBehaviorNegativeDistanceObedienceExhibitsLack Of IntegrityNegative Behavior Author:Tara Leigh Cobble
“If past behavior is any indication, we're in a lot of trouble with Hillary Clinton in the White House, as well, who has promised to start a no-fly zone in Syria, which amounts to a declaration of war against Russia.” IfsWellsWarPastHouseWhiteTroubleAmountBehaviorClintonRussiaZoneWhite HouseSyriaDeclarationIndicationDeclaration Of War Author:Jill Stein
“The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where the differences in the brain are going to just be a personality variant and, like, for very mild Asperger's. But you get into more severe kinds of autism where there's obvious speech delay, obvious abnormal behavior in a two and three-year-old child, you know, the initial neurology is different from case to case. But all children with autism are going to do better if they get really good educational intervention.” IfsKnowsYearsKindChildrenTwoDifferentCertainThreeDifferencesBrainCasesPersonalityAmountSpeechBehaviorObviousEducationalThree YearsAutismSevereDelayInterventionInitialsGet RealAbnormalVariablesGood EducationNeurologyAspergersThree Year OldsChildren With Autism Author:Temple Grandin