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“That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.”

Needs Humans Looks Culture Behavior Explanation Human Behavior Guarded Simplification Love Of Money Jealously

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihood and had gotten into a fix they couldn't get out of - because they had accepted the unacceptable to begin with. Accepting something you have to form a labor union to fight after the fact only tells me that people were acting against their own best (or even good) interests for a long time. I don't see any rational, coherent explanation for this sort of behavior in humans, but it's all over the place.”

“In short-to overstate the point only slightly-because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else's, and in many circumstances actually less so.”

People Knows Giving Circumstances Behavior Explanation

Author:Kwame

“Anyone who appears to be triggered out of watchfulness and into action by your appearance must be explained. Anyone observing you carefully must be explained. Anyone whose behavior seems to be geared to yours must be explained. If the explanation does not satisfy you, be ready to take appropriate defensive action.”

Ifs Doe Seems Action Ready Behavior Appearance Explanation Appropriate Observing Self Defense Watchfulness

Book:Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition

Source: Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition

“Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.”

Causes Decision Behavior Tests Profit Explanation Validity Rationale Business Decisions

Book:People and Performance

Source: People and Performance

“Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies... and often dangerous ones. Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself. The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person's situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.”

“I do think there is an enhanced awareness of insecurity and vulnerability that induces anxiety that creates pressure on teachers and administrators to offer simplistic explanations and to be resistant to expressions of attitudes that can be viewed as unpatriotic, which is further interpreted as applicable to any tendency to challenge the government when it claims to be acting overseas to avoid repetitions of 9/11 or to encroach on domestic freedom to identify suspicious persons and behaviors.”

“Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't know how to change. InExcuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as "I'm too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it's going to take too long or be too difficult."”

People Knows Long Self Use Difficult Common Know How Behavior Busy Scared Excuse Fats Explanation Reviews Too Busy Hanging On Self Defeating Behavior

Author:Wayne Dyer

“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 think the Russians have played now for some time the role of providing cover for Bashar al-Assad's behavior. The alternative explanation that the Russians put forth is simply not plausible.”

Thinking Behavior Explanation

Author:Rex W. Tillerson

“There is an obvious evolutionary explanation for the scarcity of altruistic saints: Without a strong predilection for their own interests, our ancestors would have been unlikely to survive, reproduce, and give their own offspring a chance of doing the same. Now conditions have changed and for most of us, surviving and reproducing isn't such a struggle but we still carry the genes of our ancestors and they influence - not determine, but influence - our behavior.”

Giving Strong Interest Chance Struggle Influence Changed Behavior Saint Determine Obvious Explanation Ancestor Surviving Offspring

Author:Peter Singer

“The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.”

Humans Values Left Behavior Explanation Human Behavior

Author:Dennis Prager