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“If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.”

People Ifs Opportunity Attitude Style Habit Behavior Patterns Casual Orientation Behavior Patterns

Author:William Julius Wilson

“We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.”

“Life is unpredictable when you get non-standard behavior patterns.”

Life Is Behavior Standards Patterns Unpredictable Behavior Patterns

Author:Jake Busey

“Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.”

Results Destiny Particular Behavior Notion Patterns Karma Tendencies Fixed Confused Prisoner Locks Accumulation Behavior Patterns

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.”

Values Culture Behavior Customs Learned Behavior Behavior Patterns

Author:Jacque Fresco

“American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world.”

World Years Has Beens Country Sometimes Behavior Consequence Negative Patterns Around The World Other Countries American Society Imitating Behavior Patterns

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Adopting the behaviors and habits of surrendered people helps us improve our relationships, feel love and gratitude, get healthier, give up destructive people and behavior patterns, and become more successful and influential in our lives and careers. And that's just the tip of the iceberg as far as benefits go.”

“The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.”

Feels Possibility Behavior Patterns Settling Exploring Biggest Fear Behavior Patterns

Author:Reggie Watts

“Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.”

Together Humanity Behavior Series Patterns Fragile Woven Learned Behavior Behavior Patterns

Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.”

Character Motivational Natural Behavior Response Patterns Behavior Patterns

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.”

Courses Brain Behavior Patterns Seats Genes Temperament Levers Wiring Behavior Patterns

Author:Steven Pinker

“The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.”

Sex Relationship Behavior Tests Patterns Behavior Patterns

Author:Alfred Adler