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“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.”

“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

“Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior. ... New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin.”

“Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we experience right now. The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty. The future is nothing grander than the very next moment, and it arrives solely from the present.”

World Moments Next Opportunity Kindness Right Now Behavior Bigger Cruelty Each Day Significance Civilized Smallest Acts Of Kindness Change For The Better Civilized Behavior

Book:It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice

Source: It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice

“Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.”

Thinking Action Next Behavior Increase Reducing Likelihood

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from one moment to the next. We possess multiple selves that are aroused by different circumstances.”

People Trying Different Self Sometimes Moments Law Next Circumstances Behavior Multiple Economist Predictability

Author:David Brooks

“An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary bias. There is no reason to suppose that any one culture has seized upon an eternal sanity and will stand in history as a solitary solution of the human problem. Even the next generation knows better. Our only scientific course is to consider our own culture, so far as we are able, as one example among innumerable others of the variant configurations of human culture.”

“When deciding what to do next, we can always ask: Does this thought, emotion, or behavior bring me closer to or take me further away from my center?”

Doe Next Asks Emotion Behavior Take Me Deciding What To Do

Author:Stephen Gilligan

“Be yourself. If something you do doesn't work, don't do it the next time. Listen to yourself - you know what appropriate behavior is.”

Ifs Knows Next Behavior Being Yourself Appropriate Next Time Listen To Yourself Appropriate Behavior

Author:Greg Behrendt

“When I first saw a White Dutch person dressed up as Black Pete, I was both sickened and shocked. It's hard to stand next to someone who views your skin color and hair as a costume. As a filmmaker, whenever I get that feeling, I want to explore what motivates people to engage in such offensive behavior and enlighten folks about its origins.”

People Want Firsts Persons Hard Feelings Next Black White Views Saws Color Hair Behavior Skins Folks Filmmaker Offensive Shocked Costumes Enlightening Dutch Dressed Up Skin Color

Author:Roger Ross Williams

“We all are capable of many different emotions and behaviors and thoughts and abilities and the way we sometimes respond to something is just very, it could be very, very different. You can one day feel this way, and the next day, feel that way.”

Way Feels Different Sometimes Next Ability Emotion One Day Behavior Capable Next Day Different Emotions

Author:Kurt Russell

“Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.”

Should Trying Political Next Energy Views Company Economic Taxes Behavior Corporate Code Owners Efficiency Revenue Manipulate Bankers Jet Personal Behavior Economic Efficiency

Author:John Sununu

“But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.”

Body Next Animal Generations Teaching Higher Cost Behavior Complexes Determined Dna Flexibility Adaptation Next Generation Dependency Adaptive

Book:The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

“Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.”

“I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color movie. First I 'see' where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes and I 'see' the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is this sort of fadeout, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images to reality.”

Want Firsts Kind Shows Reality Turns Next White Practice Path Focus Nice Color Scene Shapes Behavior Shots Sitting Balls Green Golf Grass Swings Show Me Landing Trajectory Green Grass Sitting Up

Author:Jack Nicklaus