“Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.” HumansKindMayMeanArtStatesActionFormValuesHuman BeingsConsciousnessMagicSubjectsStrangeCommunicationBehaviorArt IsConcernedEternityAbsolutesSupremeAriseComplexityHuman BehaviorStates Of ConsciousnessVicissitudes Author:Baker Brownell
“The objective of Nonviolent Communication is not to change people and their behavior in order to get our way: it is to establish relationships based on honesty and empathy, which will eventually fulfill everyone's needs.” PeopleWayNeedsOrderHonestyCommunicationBehaviorEmpathyObjectivesNonviolent Communication Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character--looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behavior as communication. Discipline is thus seen as problem-solving. The child is helped to learn a more acceptable manner of communication.” ChildrenCharacterProblemUnderstandingCommunicationDevelopmentDisciplineBehaviorAcceptableProblem SolvingEmphasisChild Development Author:Ellen Galinsky
“The ABCs are attitude, behavior and communication skills.” AttitudeCommunicationSkillsBehaviorCommunication Skills Author:Gerald Chertavian
“Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.” MeanFeelingsHumanityLanguageForceGrowsMoralPrinciplesVirtueSocietyCommunicationBehaviorElementsCapableDeterminationDrivingMannersDevelopingVirtuousCourtesyEtiquettePolitenessCrudeRefinementProprietyDriving ForceAccessibilityCaptivating Author:Immanuel Kant
“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.” PeopleImportantRealHelpingActionPurposeLeaderVisionAchieveCommunicationBehaviorCommitmentImportance Author:John Baldoni
“But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.” WayHumansSometimesLanguageHuman BeingsCommunicationBehaviorDefenseMotiveHidingPreventingBody LanguageConcealingPeak ExperiencesLanguage And CommunicationLanguages CommunicationVerbal Communication Author:Abraham Maslow
“The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.” MeanWholeCertainSocialConsciousnessAttitudeInformationEmotionalProductsCommunicationIndustryHabitBehaviorIntellectualPatternsEntertainmentReactionsProducersConsumersLatterFalsehoodManipulateIrresistibleImmuneOutputSocial SystemsMeans Of CommunicationEmotional Reactions Author:Herbert Marcuse
“Gypsy dance is never just to be dancing. Instead it seems to be a part of an immense and significant non-verbal vocabulary of Gypsy communication and behavior. It is at the heart of an essential transformation, a transcended state, an escape from the realities of their daily lives to a more satisfying state of mind.” MindHeartStatesRealitySeemsCommunicationEssentialsBehaviorTransformationDancingDanceSignificantDaily LifeState Of MindSatisfyingImmenseVocabularyGypsy Author:Kate Magowan
“Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology.” PeopleMenHumansFeelingsSeemsFormTurnsEvilIndividualNationsTermDesignCommunicationBehaviorPerceptionCapacityRelationInternationalEducationalIdeologyRelatedMotiveAbstractDecentAdversariesVaryInternational RelationsContributingEmbodimentBarbarismPerception Of Others Author:J. William Fulbright