Best behavior & long Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior.”

“As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.”

Long Taken Subjects Serious Judging Behavior Judgment Standards Males Definitions Traits Questioning Norm

Book:Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence

Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence

“In the deep jungles of Africa, a traveler was making a long trek. Coolies had been engaged from a tribe to carry the loads. The first day they marched rapidly and went far. The traveler had high hopes of a speedy journey. But the second morning these jungle tribesmen refused to move. For some strange reason they just sat and rested. On inquiry as to the reason for this strange behavior, the traveler was informed that they had gone too fast the first day, and that they were now waiting for their souls to catch up with their bodies.”

Firsts Long Soul Reason Body Moving Waiting Morning Gone Journey Strange Behavior Sat Engaged Load Traveler Tribes Inquiry Jungle

Author:Lettie Cowman

“For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.”

Long Habit Lovers Behavior Long Time Profession

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“[G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and overt behavior. Predisposition via a long chain of complex chemical reactions, mediated through a more complex series of life's circumstances, does not equal identification or even causation.”

Long Doe Process Circumstances Equal Behavior Series Complexes Rate Seeking Reactions Chains Chemicals Genes Novelty Identification Causation Chemical Reactions Enzymes

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.”

“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.”

“When I kicked in the first TV a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.”

Firsts Long Done Feelings Felt Perfect Inspire Tvs Behavior Long Time Perfection Inches Speakers Nineteen Perfect Things

Author:Adam Rapp

“Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long history of short-term thinking and self-destructive behavior among my fellow comic book creators. No matter how many horror stories they have heard they won't even go so far as to hire themselves a lawyer when they need it. It breaks my heart. I am a very proud union member of the Writers Guild. And I can't imagine my fellow comic creators being able to pull something like this together.”

“Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.”

People Long Values Force Social Community Class Huge Behavior Capitalism Labor Fruit Strive Producers Organized Collectives Long Ago Privileged Oligarchy Subjugation Social Behavior

Author:Albert Einstein

“Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-produ cing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.”

“If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.”

Ifs Long Would Be Perfect Trouble Behavior Crisis

Author:Angela Thirkell

“It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion”

Should Long Eye Term Opinion Practice Behavior Criticism Essence Investing Average Long Term Investors Eccentric Unconventional

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibiting some other behavioral aberration. Of course, now we know that's just normal Aspergian behavior, but back then other people thought it was weird, so of course I did, too. One day, for some reason, she decided to try petting my arm, and I immediately stopped rocking and fidgeting. The result was so dramatic, she never stopped. It didn't take long for me to realize the calming effect, too. I like being petted and scratched. "Can you pet me?" I say when I sit next to her.”

“Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior.”

Long Responsibility Behavior Patterns Criminals Long Life Criminal Behavior

Author:Hetty King

“Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate diversification, the payment of high and unnecessary fees to managers and advisors, and the use of borrowed money can destroy the decent returns that a life-long owner of equities would otherwise enjoy. Indeed, borrowed money has no place in the investor's tool kit.”

“We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.”

“Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.”

Long Enough Certain Memories Consciousness Achieve Effects Behavior Conscious Resources Typical Persevere Cerebral

Book:Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds

Source: Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds

“So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.”

“I believe, when in my behavior or in relationships or in the way I react to something, that I'm still dealing with some leftover stuff from my childhood, but the good thing is now, because I have learned so much from the Bible, I can tell when I'm behaving wrong and when I'm not, and it doesn't take me very long to realize that's out of fear, or that's because I was controlled as a child, and I can make a conscious decision to behave the way I know I should behave.”

Knows Way Should Believe Children Long Stills I Can I Believe Stuff Realizing Decision Childhood Behavior Conscious Good Things My Children Behave Controlled Take Me I Have Learned

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.”

People Long Behavior Distance Long Distance

Author:Candice Bergen

“If you are a libertine, if you're not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It's like the person who knows they're not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else.”

Ifs Knows Persons Long Given Term Behavior Projects Faithful Long Term Trustworthy Mistrust Libertine Not Trustworthy

Author:Ben Kingsley

“Although homosexual behavior is very common in the animal world, it seems to be very uncommon that individual animals have a long-lasting predisposition to engage in such behavior to the exclusion of heterosexual activities. Thus, a homosexual orientation, if one can speak of such thing in animals, seems to be a rarity.”

Ifs World Long Seems Individual Speak Animal Common Activity Behavior Lasting Homosexual Orientation Uncommon Exclusion Animal World Rarity Long Lasting

Book:Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research Into Homosexuality

Source: Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research Into Homosexuality

“The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.”

“As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.”

“I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.”

People Ifs Humans Long I Can Hands Faces Watches Listening Behavior Picks Human Behavior Fascination

Author:Scoot McNairy

“Behavior runs in deep channels that were cut during early childhood, and it is very difficult to alter them. In order to change a deeply ingrained pattern, you have to build a sturdy dam, dig another canal and reroute the river in the new direction. That effort is rarely successful over the long haul.”

Long Running Order Difficult Effort Successful Cutting Childhood Behavior Rivers Patterns Haul Dams Early Childhood Canals Sturdy New Directions Long Haul

Book:Life on the Edge

Source: Life on the Edge

“Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.”

Thinking Long Self Our Lives Goes On Please Safe Behavior Messages Hundred Regard Contact

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“For a really long time [before writing the novel], I was watching a lot of serial killer movies and I started to wonder if this was a trend and if other people were doing the same thing. That's what happens when you suddenly have a critical perspective on your own behavior.”

People Ifs Writing Long Happens Wonder Novel Perspective Behavior Long Time Critical Trends Killers Serials Serial Killer Really Long

Author:Lucy Corin

“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

“After a while, we start really believing these things are true. People who have had self-defeating behaviors for a long time, such as people who have been overweight since they were children or people with longtime addictions, actually believe there is no other alternative.”

People Believe Children Long Has Beens Self Behavior Long Time Addiction Alternatives Overweight True People Self Defeating Behavior

Author:Wayne Dyer

“You know what I think you get scared of more - especially me, after touring for so long and being in bands for so long - you start to associate certain behavior with the music. It's like people associate having a cigarette with having a cup of coffee, or lunch.”

People Thinking Knows Long Certain Band Behavior Scared Coffee Cups Lunch Cigarette Associates Touring Coffee Cup

Author:Iggy Pop

“And as long as you’re making choices unconsciously, you can’t consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits.”

Long Turns Choices Habit Behavior Productive Making Choices

Book:The Compound Effect

Source: The Compound Effect

“I think companies trying to exercise a so-called inversion should be hit with an exit tax. So I want to change behaviors, and I am deeply distressed about quarterly capitalism, because I think it is causing businesses to make decisions that are not helping the long-term profitability of American corporations or the success of our economy.”

Thinking Want Should Trying Long Helping Term Decision Company Economy Exercise Taxes Behavior Capitalism Corporations Long Term Exit Profitability Inversions

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for being abused in such a horrific way. I lost it a lot of times watching that film, particularly when seeing the grace of the man when he finally makes it back home aged, changed, forever brutalized, and yet he apologizes to his family for his long absence. That was such a profoundly moving moment capturing the triumph of dignity over the disgraceful behavior of those involved in the slave trade.”

“[Donald Trump] has a long record of engaging in racist behavior.”

Long Records Trump Behavior Racist Engaging

Author:Hillary Clinton

“When J.J. [Abrams] called Lisa [Joy] and myself, he pitched us this idea of, what if we turn the structure around and started with the hosts. For us, that gave us a way to play with everything that we're interested in, all at once. It's the ultimate playground for us because we deal with questions about artificial intelligence, which is something I've long been fascinated by, but also human intelligence, or the lack thereof, human behavior, and interactive, immersive storytelling.”

“People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are not surprised by the behavior of Google, a corporation that notionally (until recently anyway) espoused the slogan "don't be evil" and then runs over individual people and even entire nations in the pursuit of profit.”

People Long Running Past Evil Individual Nations Understanding Memories Trump Politician Behavior Profit Pursuit Corporations Google Vivid Slogans

Author:Dale Jamieson

“Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of black boys being suspended at substantially higher rates than white boys for the same behavior, in the absence of that kind of rigorous enforcement of the nondiscrimination principle, then the long-standing biases that I believe have weakened, but are still clearly present in our society, assert themselves in ways that usually disadvantage African Americans.”

“A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past childhood as can be.”

Should Children Long Play Past Form Natural Childhood Behavior Aim Educate Honored Natural Forms

Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did, what the British Empire did. We're now beginning to see the long shadow that it created, so one must be hopeful and say that what's going on in Asia, that what's going on in the Middle East, that all these various areas of conflict, that they will pass and move onto another area. But it would seem that the natural order of things is there is this cyclic behavior of destruction followed by a calm period.”

“The way one behaves and feels as a Dutchman and Dutchwoman is the result of a long development. It is by no means 'the natural way' or 'the human way' of behaving, it is a particular code of behavior which has developed over the years. And these people, the immigrant people, come from a group where different standards of conduct and behavior have developed. What clashes are these two standards of conduct and behavior.”

People Mean Long Different Natural Behavior Code Behave Clash

Author:Norbert Elias

“For a very long time, people have been saying to me, "What if you want to do this approach with every kid?" For a behaviorally challenging kid, you're parenting this way just to help bring the kid's behavior under control and to greatly reduce conflict. But you want to teach all kids the skills that are on the better side of human nature: empathy, appreciating how one's behavior is affecting other people, resolving disagreements in ways that do not involve conflict, taking another's perspective, honesty.”

People Long Helping Kids Challenges Teach Human Nature Honesty Perspective Conflict Behavior Empathy Appreciate What If Disagreement

Author:Ross W. Greene

“Even after the age of 50 it was impossible for me to see my mother as a human being. I felt she was a monster, and she had subtly been influencing my behavior and my thoughts and my dreams for so long that she was kind of a monster; she was a demon. And when I brought her back to life, I could feel that malevolent presence around me again, that woman who was totally incapable of giving nurturing to anybody, and, you know, her selfishness and her withdrawn indifference to everything but her own needs.”

Giving Kind Long Dream Age Mother Impossible Influence Behavior Selfishness Indifference Demon My Thoughts Nurturing

Author:David Small

“We can't change the fossil fuel companies' behavior in isolation from the rest of the industrial system. As long as they have customers, they're going to continue to operate, whether or not we divest of their stock. However, divesting might be helpful in terms of disrupting the story that what these companies do is perfectly okay. This situation differs from apartheid in a key regard though: racial equality in South Africa was no threat whatsoever to capitalism as we know it. Ending the fossil fuel era is a much deeper change.”

Long Term Situation Behavior Capitalism Okay Threat Isolation Helpful South Africa Fossil Fuel Apartheid

Author:Charles Eisenstein

“That's why every society on the planet has very definite rules, ideas about how sex should be regulated, how sex should be expressed, what's okay, what's not okay. And I guess we do live in a place, and have for a long time, where there's more openness and there's more willingness to tolerate different kinds of behavior, but with that comes people creating other rules and other kinds of controls. It's always going to be a question of what's acceptable and what isn't and what's the danger point and what rouses people's contempt and what people are allowed to get away with.”

People Kind Long Different Danger Behavior Okay Get Away Willingness Openness Contempt Different Kinds Tolerate Not Okay

Author:Mary Gaitskill

“The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.”

Knows World Inspirational Long Character Lord Integrity Behavior Increase Devotion Gods Will Godly Alone With God

Author:Charles Stanley

“Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.”

People Years Humans Long Has Beens Two Talking Changed Activity Behavior Filled Ancient Each Day Amazed Human Behavior Homo Sapiens Downtown Physical Things Tucson

Author:Andrew Weil

“The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.”

Long Term Behavior Lifestyle Diets Long Term

Author:Francis Collins

“Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.”

World Long Play Force Social Powerful Attitude Roles Generations Economic Conditions Behavior Roots Legacy Make Sense Our World Persist Long Life Demographics Outliers Deep Roots

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

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