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“Men in all societies possess the biological equipment to remove their hats or shoes, but it is the birth within a particular culture that decides that a Jew will keep his hat and shoes on in his place of worship, a Mohammedan will take off his shoes, and a Christian will keep his shoes on but remove his hat.”

Men Christian Culture Particular Birth Behavior Worship Shoes Jew Hats Remove Equipment Places Of Worship

Book:MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION

Source: MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION

“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.”

“No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.”

Matter Facts Levels Deals Environment Particular Behavior Conscious Economics Being True Instance Unconscious Organisms Sinking Pragmatic Generalities

Author:Gregory Bateson

“All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority.”

Persons Action Actors Influence Particular Exercise Authority Behavior Conscious Unconscious Selection

Book:Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-making Processes in Administrative Organization

Source: Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-making Processes in Administrative Organization

“Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.”

Results Destiny Particular Behavior Notion Patterns Karma Tendencies Fixed Confused Prisoner Locks Accumulation Behavior Patterns

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.”

Needs Wells Children Ideas Feelings Certain Values Wish Parent Understanding Results Situation Produce Particular Ought Behavior Flow Relation Our Children Method Predictable

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.”

Thinking Individual Situation Particular Behavior Responsible

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“In the texts, and as His Holiness the Dalai Lama reminds us, we should check the person's behavior not when they're sitting on a big throne, but behind the scenes. How do they treat ordinary people - not the big sponsors - but just ordinary people who are of no particular importance to them.”

People Should Persons Bigs Behinds Particular Scene Behavior Ordinary Sitting Treats Importance Checks Holiness Thrones Ordinary People Behind The Scenes Sponsors Lama Dalai

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“If you want a particular behavior from someone else, try spotlighting those times when he or she is already doing it.”

Ifs Want Trying Particular Behavior

Author:Michelle Gielan

“The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what I think are the subgroups of autism.”

Thinking Particular Behavior Autism

Author:Darold Treffert

“The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.”

Mind Looks Language Brain Influence Particular Behavior Scientist Structure Polyglots

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.”

Home Earth Humanity Environment Particular Duty Depends Behavior Sacred Species Preserves Destroying Genetics Adapted Physiology Rest Of Life

Author:E. O. Wilson

“I don't think people realize, when they're just getting started on an eating disorder or even when they're in the grip of one, that it is not something that you just "get over." For the vast majority of eating-disordered people, it is something that will haunt you for the rest of your life. You may change your behavior, change your beliefs about yourself and your body, give up that particular way of coping in the world. You may learn, as I have, that you would rather be a human than a human's thin shell. You may get well. But you never forget.”

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia