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“Nowadays, you form your beliefs to fit your behavior, not the other way around.”

Way Form Belief Fit Behavior

Book:Style and substance: a comedy of manners

Source: Style and substance: a comedy of manners

“In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.”

Thinking World Humans Feelings Family Fit Behavior Patterns Contemporary Human Behavior Thoughts And Feelings Single Picture

Book:Family

Source: Family

“CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.”

Thinking Trying Looks Self Use Order Girl Common Company Fit Behavior Asking Raises Ceo Mold Entitlement Dose Trying To Change

Author:Adora Svitak

“There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting to discover how to fit in. They don't mean everything they do and say. They are just testing. . . . Take a good deal of your daughter's behavior with a grain of salt. Try to handle the really outrageous as matter-of-factly as you would a mistake in grammar or spelling.”

Trying Mean Matter Ability Deals Mistake Fit Behavior Daughter Tests Handle Salt Grain Testing Grammar Parallels Outrageous Spelling Your Daughter Grain Of Salt

Author:Stella Chess

“We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.”

Humans Ideas Self Matter Feelings Easy Animal Mistake Fit Behavior Perception Conscious No Idea Appropriate Being Human Criteria Self Conscious Inappropriate Lizards Revulsion

Author:Douglas Adams

“Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.”

Trying Facts Fit Behavior

Book:Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

Source: Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case

“When there's a good fit between skills and expectations, there's what we call compatibility, and we would expect a good outcome. When there's a poor fit between expectations and the capacity of the kid, there is incompatibility, and that's when we see people exhibit challenging behavior.”

People Kids Challenges Poor Fit Skills Behavior Expectations Capacity Outcomes Exhibits Compatibility Incompatibility

Author:Ross W. Greene

“Lots of people commit crimes and don't get arrested. That's not the measure. But if you're going to be the president of the United States, we're reasonably going to put you under a microscope. And Donald Trump's tax behavior is absolutely important to understanding, is he qualified, is he morally fit, is he capable, is he trustworthy to have everything from the powers of federal law enforcement to the nuclear codes?”

People Important Understanding President Crime Fit Taxes Behavior Capable Commit Code Law Enforcement Trustworthy

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Obstruction, basically, is whether you corruptly influence, obstruct or impede the administration of justice. You tell a chief law enforcement officer get, you know, back off my friend - or I hope you back off my friend and then when he doesn't, you fire him, clearly, that isn't - that is - fits the behavior of obstruction. The question of whether or not you can prosecute the president is open.”

President Justice Influence Fit Behavior Law Enforcement

Author:Keith Ellison

“There are so many fantastic roles, but the ones that have always drawn me to them are the loners who, for whatever reason, never quite fit in and knew it and had to find their own way. I've always been drawn to that, for some reason. I've always been drawn to that sad, isolated place, but what it produces in behavior is something else, entirely. For whatever reason, I'm drawn to these people. Essentially, I think what draws me is that they are survivors against rather considerable odds.”

People Thinking Reason Fit Behavior Fantastic Survivor Never Quit Loner

Author:Ann Dowd

“The basic premise of taste, as Stephen Bayley, the cultural critic, said, is that taste is that which does not alienate your peers. Most people want to fit in with their tribe in some way or another, so they give off signals, whether it's with their clothes, their behavior, their car, their whatever, and gain status. Every tribe has a hierarchy, and that's what taste is: it's an unconscious display of who you are, and where you want to be.”

People Giving Car Fit Behavior Who You Are Critics Unconscious

Author:Grayson Perry

“Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.”

Wells Problem Pain Individual Causes Fit Behavior Regard Cures Sickness Our Society Manipulation Sanity Inconvenient Plausible

Book:The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

“People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.”

People Fit Behavior Integrating

Book:Tough Customer: A Novel

Source: Tough Customer: A Novel

“Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakingly created for themselves. It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behavior of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.”