“The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.” ThinkingWorldWayHumansWellsDoeDesireFallEnergyLossMissingProductsBehaviorGainsVariousFinishedStatementsBurningContractsHuman BehaviorIncompetenceFreshnessVulgarityBurning DesireEarly Work Author:Kingsley Amis
“Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior by themselves. Most genes influence several aspects of anatomy and behavior as they operate through complex interactions with other genes and their products, and with environmental factors both within and outside the developing organism. We fall into a deep error, not just a harmful oversimplification, when we speak of genes "for" particular items of anatomy or behavior.” FallSpeakInfluenceParticularProductsBehaviorAspectErrorsComplexesEnvironmentalFactorsDevelopingGenesInteractionOrganismsItemsAnatomyOversimplificationInteraction With OthersEnvironmental Factors Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“The principal task is to put spiritual foundations under both our child's life and our own. This triggers a shift in the elemental way in which we relate to our children, with the result that their behavior automatically falls in line as they become aware of, and true to, who they really are. Behavioral changes are an outgrowth of a shift in the relationship.” WayChildrenSpiritualFallLinesResultsBehaviorTasksOur ChildrenFoundationRelatePrincipalTriggersElementalsBehavioral Change Author:Shefali Tsabary
“Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.” IfsMenWritingHumansCharacterFallSocialComedyGroupsWorstDependsEgoBehaviorTragedyImpulseOne ManVersusFoeWirePitsSocial LifeMassage Author:Rita Mae Brown
“By believing that only some of our students will ever develop a love of books and reading, we ignore those who do not fall into books and reading on their own. We renege on our responsibility to teach students how to become self-actualized readers. We are selling our students short by believing that reading is a talent and that lifelong reading behaviors cannot be taught.” BelieveBookSelfFallReadingResponsibilityTeachTalentStudentsTaughtReaderBehaviorSellingLifelongBooks And Reading Book:Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits Source: Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits
“Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture the hearts of people. And its all fraud; its all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if its proletariat behavior.” PeopleIfsWayHeartCountryFallDealsBehaviorCaptureFraudElitesDroppingProletariatStagecraft Author:Eugene Jarecki
“The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When it comes to fascistic leftist behavior, our mainstream media overlooks and excuses it - while conservatives are demonized and blamed for every dead sparrow that falls from the sky.” FallSkyStreetsMediaWallBehaviorStandardsRaisedExcuseCuriousOur SocietyMainstreamContinuingDouble StandardLeftistsSparrowsMainstream MediaOccupy Wall Street Author:Jamie Glazov
“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.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsLooksImportantChoicesFallEnvironmentInfluenceHealthyDiseaseBehaviorProjectsIllFactorsGeneticsHolisticGenomeGenome Project Author:Francis Collins
“It's easier to fall back into old behaviors when you come back to a place where you were a shorter person.” PersonsFallEasierBehaviorFall Back Author:Joseph Dougherty
“If you stay in that new flow of positive behavior, it's hard to revert back to old patterns. But if you do fall off, just forgive yourself, recover quickly, and get right back on.” IfsHardFallBehaviorFlowForgivingPatternsForgive YourselfPositive Behavior Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“Consumers cannot think in abstractions. They cannot envision a new concept. They cannot predict their behavior. They can only compare against their current frame of reference. So you need to make the big leap for them. You need to provide them with a reason to buy, a reason to brag to their friends. Expect new-to-the-world ideas to fall on deaf ears. Consumers will, however, change their tune when they can see, touch, and explore.” ThinkingWorldNeedsIdeasReasonBigsFallBehaviorConceptsEarsCurrentsConsumersCompareTunesLeapAbstractionDeafBragFrame Of ReferenceDeaf Ears Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“Politics right now is in a very dark place, and I think the only place for me is to do what I do - make films, create art, watch it as it evolves. Right now it's like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall, and a great fall is happening. The behavior seems to be really dumb.” ThinkingArtFilmFallDarkWallBehaviorDumbEvolveHumpty Dumpty Author:Robert Redford
“...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.” ReasonHomeFallCoursesWaterRocksBehaviorComplexesHolesHardestDistinctionConditioningLiquidCrudeScarletDrop Of WaterWholesaleGranite Author:Aldous Huxley
“The great news is that God knows everything about you, both good and bad, and He still loves you and values you unconditionally. God does not always approve of our behavior. He is not pleased when we go against his will, and when we do, we always suffer the consequences and have to work with Him to correct our thoughts, words, actions, or attitudes. And while you should work to improve in the areas where you fall short, nothing you do will ever cause God to love you less…or more. His love is a constant you can depend on.” KnowsShouldDoeStillsActionSufferingValuesFallCausesLove IsAttitudeLove YouDependsBehaviorNewsConsequenceAreasConstantOur ThoughtsHis LoveGood And BadGod KnowsStill Love YouGreat NewsGod Knows Everything Author:Joel Osteen
“Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All around you these people fall into prostrate positions, some of them weeping. Where are you? Sara’s answer was immediate: in an asylum. Perhaps, Kreizler answered, but you could also be in a church. In the one place the behavior would be considered mad; in the other, not only sane, but as respectable as any human activity can be.” PeopleHumansSaidWould BeFallSoundChurchAnswersTalkingImaginePositionActivityBehaviorMadHallsSaneEchoesWeepingRespectableAsylumsHuman ActivityCrumbling Book:The Alienist: A Novel Source: The Alienist: A Novel
“The marker of those who understand the gospel of Jesus Christ is that, when they stumble and fall, when they screw up, they run to God and not from him, because they clearly understand that their acceptance before God is not predicated upon their behavior but on the righteous life of Jesus Christ and his sacrificial death.” RunningFallJesusChristAcceptanceBehaviorJesus ChristRighteousScrewsScrew UpsMarkers Author:Matt Chandler
“You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept.” IfsKnowsTryingKindChildrenRealSelfHelpingCareCertainFallSidesHurtKnow HowFailingBandProtectLetting GoBehaviorConsequenceTake CareAidsYour ChildrenAspirinBand AidLearn To Let Go Author:Anne Lamott
“Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.” FallForgetBehaviorEducationalCustomersBrandingFall Into PlaceEverything Falls Into Place Author:Thomas G. Stemberg