Best behavior & environment Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.”

Wells Might Form Natural Environment Greater Behavior Function Simplicity Locals Complexity Yield Selection Adaptation Natural Selection Habitat Natural Habitats

Book:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in.”

Action Dies Turns Individual Consciousness Environment Behavior Tunes Routine Artificial Trapped Robots Adaptation Sequence Turn-on Harmonious Hooked Reborn Repetitive

Book:Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

Source: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

“Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.”

Men Able Action Individual Ability Environment Information Depends Future Behavior Fairs Flow Bases Rational Data Outcomes Feds Sanity Hinges

Book:future shock

Source: future shock

“No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.”

Matter Facts Levels Deals Environment Particular Behavior Conscious Economics Being True Instance Unconscious Organisms Sinking Pragmatic Generalities

Author:Gregory Bateson

“The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.”

Character Individual Environment Behavior Determined Ancestry Affiliation

Book:Race and Democratic Society

Source: Race and Democratic Society

“The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.”

Way Feelings Games Change Environment Easier Truth Is Behavior Clubs Surroundings Our Environment

Book:Turning Points

Source: Turning Points

“Reclaim our environment from those who would destroy it with their predatory economic behavior.”

Environment Economic Behavior Our Environment Predatory

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“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

“If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.”

Ifs Years Humanity Race Responsibility Environment Achieve Planets Type Behavior Decades Sustainability Taking Responsibility Shifting Our Planet Triggers Our Environment

Author:Yehuda Berg

“Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key to success is to tailor the rearing environment to the developmental level of the child--what she or he can handle--and to individual differences among children.”

Needs Children Individual Differences Levels Results Environment Expression Keys Limits Behavior Calm Handle Key To Success Tailors Latitude Developmental Individual Differences

Author:Sandra Scarr

“Studios felt like Blu-ray was going to be the next panacea, and so they dumped the prices (of traditional DVDs) and devalued the product. That's a misreading of consumer behavior as well as a misreading of the economic environment.”

Wells Next Felt Environment Economic Products Behavior Studios Traditional Consumers Rays Dvds Dumped Panacea Misreading

Author:Bill Mechanic

“In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.”

Humans May Different Individual Social Simple Environment Human Nature Development Behavior Aspect Originals Dues Our Society Contrast Nevertheless Homogeneous Social Environment

Book:Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

Source: Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

“It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving, or that the survival of the societies we know depends upon filling a simple set of prescriptions. It is all too complex and dynamic, whether it involves managing greenhouse gases or Nile snails... The future condition of the globe's interlocking natural and social systems depends more on human behavior than on the further investigation of natural processes, however desirable that may be.”

“If you accept learning as a dominant determination of your behavior, then all of a sudden you're open to the idea that, for instance, there are other people who are more educated than you about the environment, who you will learn from. It's kind of like you don't even have to believe that you know anything about the environment, but you do have to understand that your behavior has been determined by learning in the past.”

People Ifs Knows Believe Kind Has Beens Ideas Past Accepting Environment Like You Behavior Determination Determined Educated Instance Dominant

Author:Greg Graffin

“Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.”

Humans Human Beings Simple Environment Behavior Reflection Chaos Complexity

Author:Herbert Simon

“Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, actions, ways of holding and moving ourselves, they all influence what happens around us and inside us. The actions of every instant, every day, must be right...Every gesture is important. How we eat, how we put on our clothes, how we wash ourselves, how we go to the toilet, how we put our things away, how we act with other people, family, wife, work - how we are: totally, in every single gesture.”

People Way Mean Important Happens Action Moving Consciousness Attitude Environment Wife Influence Behavior Clothes Instant Gestures Toilets Here And Now Our Words

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“I think a current understanding about urban behavior tells us that it's important that people get out and be able to get away from the concrete jungles and the dense environment where they live for their own mental well-being. If they don't do this, the costs in human loss and human sickness will be far greater than what we would be expending for these kinds of releases and open spaces.”

“So, what's a nudge? A nudge is some small feature of the environment that attracts our attention and alters our behavior.”

Attention Environment Behavior Features Nudge

Author:Richard Thaler

“Dance therapy provides an outlet for energy and a safe and playful environment in which many areas of conflict can be identified and worked through, and appropriate adult roles and behavior tried out.”

Energy Roles Environment Safe Conflict Behavior Adults Areas Therapy Appropriate Outlets

Book:Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

Source: Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

“A lot of people think PMI is the genome project 2.0. No. This is about all the influences on disease - genetics is in there, but the environment is in there as well, health choices, behaviors, all the factors that are important, otherwise we're not doing what we promised we would do - which is in a holistic way look at how people stay healthy or how do they fall ill.”

People Thinking Way Wells Looks Important Choices Fall Environment Influence Healthy Disease Behavior Projects Ill Factors Genetics Holistic Genome Genome Project

Author:Francis Collins

“Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.”

People Environment Source Behavior Blame Affected External Environment

Author:Stephen Covey

“One of the main jobs of conciousness is to keep our life tied together into a coherent story, a self-concept. It does this by generating explanations of behaviors on the basis of our self image, images, memories of the past, expectations of the future, the present social situation, and the physical environment in which behavior is produced.”

Doe Self Stories Together Jobs Past Social Memories Situation Environment Our Lives Behavior Expectations Concepts Bases Explanation Tied Self Concept Past Memories

Author:Joseph E. LeDoux

“I'm not on Twitter. In theory, I really like Instagram. I think it's a warmer environment. I think, though conversations can erupt that aren't always friendly, you have an opportunity to jump in and redirect and even caution people against language and behavior that I personally object to.”

People Thinking Opportunity Language Environment Objects Theory Conversation Behavior Friendly Caution Instagram

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“Anger management (which is a part of both public displays of rage and spouse abuse) is about changing a person's internal reactions to events (how they see their behavior) by changing the support environment for the behavior (making them see the behavior is wrong).”

Persons Support Environment Events Behavior Abuse Management Rage Reactions Internals Display Spouse Anger Management

Author:Stanton Peele

“I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior than the delighted exercise of my rather malicious sense of humor - especially vis-a-vis the horrifying everyday environment we have produced for ourselves. These mall-scapes, burb-scapes, urban wildernesses, starchitect stunts, and other toxic contexts for our daily lives express about every human vice, stupidity, and blunder that it is possible for a society to make. It all leads, really, to a psychological place where only comedy or despair make sense.”

“Many quantum physics are realizing or hypothesizing that consciousness is not a byproduct of evolution as has been suggested. Or for that matter, an expression of our brains, although it expresses itself through our brains. But consciousness is the common ground of existence that ultimately differentiates into space, time, energy, information and matter. And the same consciousness is responsible for our thoughts, for our emotions and feelings, for our behaviors, for our personal relationships, for our social interactions, for the environments that we find ourselves in, and for our biology.”

Feelings Energy Realizing Common Emotion Existence Brain Consciousness Environment Evolution Behavior Responsible Physics Biology Quantum Physics Social Interaction

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Acoustic ecology is the study of information systems: the shared acoustic environment and how species send and receive messages in this shared acoustic environment. What these messages mean - meaning, what are the consequences and the changes of behavior in any species. And it has as much to do with us individually and biologically as it does with the shaping of cultures and beliefs.”

Mean Culture Belief Study Environment Behavior Consequence Ecology

Author:Gordon Hempton

“Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.”

Men World Humans Christ Environment Human Nature Shapes Behavior Human Behavior Slums

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.”

People Men World Humans Faith Christ Lord Environment Human Nature Shapes Behavior Trust In God Human Behavior Mold Confidence In God Greatness Of God Slums Mighty God

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.”

Source: Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

“Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.”

Home Earth Humanity Environment Particular Duty Depends Behavior Sacred Species Preserves Destroying Genetics Adapted Physiology Rest Of Life

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Every good soldier wants to live in an organized environment, secure in the knowledge that he or she will not be threatened or harassed by others, confident that his or her efforts will be recognized, and aware that the nonproductive soldier will be invited to leave. In such an environment, soldiers will be proud of their units and will demonstrate that pride with their performance and behavior.”

Want Effort Environment Pride Proud Behavior Performances Army Very Good Soldier Secure Organized Units Threatened Be Proud Invited Good Soldiers

Author:William A. Connelly

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