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“We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.”

Years May Problem Environment Evolution Behavior Billions

Author:W. Richard Stevens

“Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.”

Ifs Looks Problem Women Can Do Behavior Judgment Symptoms Can Do Something

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!”

Humans Problem Challenges Behavior Granted Engineering Aggression Human Behavior

Book:How the Mind Works

Source: How the Mind Works

“The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible. Logical and linguistic analysis demonstrate that the old metaphysical problems are illusory problems; the quest for the "meaning" of things can be reformulated as the quest for the meaning of words, and the established universe of discourse and behavior can provide perfectly adequate criteria for the answer.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“The problem with every judgment of sexual behavior is that it is made by people who aren't being stimulated as they are making the judgment. A jury that sees a woman in a sterile courtroom, asks her what she wanted, and then assumes that anything else she did was the responsibility of the man is insulting not only the woman but the power of sex.”

People Men Made Problem Wanted Asks Sex Responsibility He Man Behavior Judgment Assuming Jury Insulting Courtroom

Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of problems concerned with relations between the "structure" and the "function" of such nets. The "structure" of a random net is not a clearly defined topological manifold such as could be used to describe a circuit with explicitly given connections. In a random neural net, one does not speak of "this" neuron synapsing on "that" one, but rather in terms of tendencies and probabilities associated with points or regions in the net.”

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Author:Anatol Rapoport

“Addiction is more malleable than you know. When people come to me for therapy, they often ask me whether their behavior constitutes a real addiction (or whether they are really alcoholic, etc.). My answer is that this is not the important question. The important questions are how many problems is the involvement causing you, how much do you want to change it, and how can we go about change?”

People Knows Want Important Real Problem Asks Answers Behavior Addiction Ask Me Therapy Etc Alcoholics Involvement Important Questions

Book:7 Tools to Beat Addiction: A New Path to Recovery from Addictions of Any Kind: Smoking, Alcohol, Food, Drugs, Gambling, Sex, Love

Source: 7 Tools to Beat Addiction: A New Path to Recovery from Addictions of Any Kind: Smoking, Alcohol, Food, Drugs, Gambling, Sex, Love

“Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.”

“Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.”

Thinking Feels Mean Problem Class Taught Involved Behavior Concepts Definitions Productions Solve Behave Assumption

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.”

Problem Humanity Sin Behavior Core Vertical Horizontal

Author:James MacDonald

“Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character--looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behavior as communication. Discipline is thus seen as problem-solving. The child is helped to learn a more acceptable manner of communication.”

Children Character Problem Understanding Communication Development Discipline Behavior Acceptable Problem Solving Emphasis Child Development

Author:Ellen Galinsky

“What we need to do is we need to create new international standards of behavior - not just national laws, because this is a global problem. We can't just fix it in the United States, because there are other countries that don't follow U.S. laws. We have to create international standards that say that cyber attacks should only ever occur when it is absolutely necessary.”

Needs Should Country States Problem Law United United States Behavior Standards International Other Countries Cyber Cyber Attacks

Author:Edward Snowden

“80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems ... they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.”

People Problem Behavior

Author:Andy Stanley

“It no longer makes sense to speak of "feeding problems" or "sleep problems" or "negative behavior" is if they were distinct categories, but to speak of "problems of development" and to search for the meaning of feeding and sleep disturbances or behavior disorders in the developmental phase which has produced them.”

Ifs Problem Speak Sleep Development Behavior Negative Make Sense Categories Disorder Phases Feeding Disturbance Developmental Negative Behavior

Book:The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency”

Self Problem Produce Behavior Standards Aspect Reactions Adopted Personal Experiences Dissatisfaction Dysfunction Self Efficacy Despondency Behavior Problems

Author:Albert Bandura

“Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether there is objective chance or only uncertainty, whether physics can explain chemical change, whether our behavior is fully determined by our genomes, whether ideation can change the brain, or whether either the economy or ideas are the ultimate roots of the social.”

“Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service.”

Problem Process Effort Study Design Products Activity Behavior Research Evolve Users Clients Ongoing Responding Discrete Specifications Research Study Continually Learning

Author:Dan Brown

“More often than not, the belief that you are bad contributes to the "bad" behavior. Change and learning occur most readily when you (a) recognize that an error has occurred and (b) develop a strategy for correcting the problem. An attitude of self-love and relaxation facilitates this, whereas guilt often interferes.”

Self Problem Belief Attitude Self Love Behavior Strategy Guilt Errors Interfere Relaxation Correcting Facilitate Bad Behavior Behavior Change

Book:Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

Source: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

“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.”

“We will not make inroads into the gun-violence problem until we acknowledge the underlying causes of youth behavior today, compared to yesterday. ... we must come to the realization that laws and regulations alone cannot produce a civilized society. It's morality that is society's first line of defense against uncivilized behavior.”

“There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.”

May Whole Problem Half Involved Morality Behavior Solve Being True Legislation Half Truth

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We don't always help people by doing everything for them. That type of behavior can actually contribute to their problems because it helps then never take responsibility on their own.”

People Helping Problem Responsibility Type Behavior Taking Responsibility

Author:Joyce Meyer

“(There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their communities,...art that offers an alternative, that demonstrates human behavior that can become a model for creativity, cooperation, freedom and playfulness, and...art that in itself provides glimpses of a larger consciousness or reflects upon the inexplicable.”

People Humans Art States Problem Community Consciousness Creativity Offers Behavior Models Alternatives Cooperation Human Behavior Glimpse Making Changes Inexplicable Playfulness

Author:Meredith Monk

“The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.”

People Want Wells Problem Bigs Running Games Easy Realizing Behavior Critical Driving Consumers Steam Big Problems Linux Purchasing Holding Back

Author:Gabe Newell

“You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it turns out that the subsequent behavior of the robot in achieving that goal was not what you want, you have a real problem.”

Ifs Want Real Problem Turns Goal Achieve Behavior Machines What You Want Defined Capability Robots Real Problems Superhuman Achieving Goals

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“Everybody is talking about the behavior. Behaviors float downstream to us. We need to paddle upstream. The problems that are causing the behaviors, that's what's waiting for us. It's a crucial paradigm shift.”

Needs Problem Waiting Talking Behavior Crucial Floats Paradigm Paradigm Shift

Author:Ross W. Greene

“It's a whole lot more productive to be in problem-solving mode than it is to be in behavior modification mode.”

Whole Problem Behavior Productive Problem Solving Modification Behavior Modification

Author:Ross W. Greene

“The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.”

Humans Heart Real Problem Religion Economic Creation Behavior Economics Relation Seats Arena Human Relations Real Problems Economic Problems Economy And Economics

Book:The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

“In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But then major sort of problems actually they're due to a lack of moral principle.”

Thinking Mind Humans May Problem Courses Natural Moral Principles Behavior Majors Dues Disaster Relate Human Behavior Moral Principles Natural Disaster Tsunami

Author:Dalai Lama

“One thing I'd like to just keep on doing is I want to educate people about animal behavior and about autism. I've been doing autism talks for the last 20 years and there still are people out there that do not want to, they can't recognize that these sensory problems are real. That, for some of these kids when that fire alarm goes off, that really hurts the ears, it's a really real thing.”

People Want Years Stills Real Problem Kids Lasts Hurt Animal Fire One Thing Behavior Ears Educate Autism Alarms Real Things Sensory Animal Behavior

Author:Temple Grandin

“I am a bit of a Dudley Do-Gooder, though, because if I see a car accident or something bad happen, I am one of those idiots who runs toward the problem instead of away from it. Not that I would recommend this behavior.”

Problem Running Car Behavior Idiot Car Accident

Author:Karin Slaughter

“I have touched here on a problem that is masked if one speaks of racism. And that is the fact that the major differences between the established and outsiders group, which create tension and irritation, is not the form of the face or the skin color but the form of behavior: something learned. The form of behavior and feeling, of sentiment, is different in the immigrant groups from that of the established groups, and that may give rise to an enormous irritation.”

Giving Different Feelings Problem Speak Behavior Racism Skins Tension Sentiments Outsiders

Author:Norbert Elias

“Whether low-income people are dealing with access to veteran's benefits, or a protective order to guard against domestic violence, or a way to guard against the loss of their home due to foreclosure and unscrupulous behavior by mortgage providers, there's no way they can afford a lawyer. And that's a serious problem. Because that erodes respect for law, it erodes the prospects for justice.”

People Problem Home Justice Loss Violence Serious Behavior Lawyer Domestic Violence Mortgage

Author:Martha Minow

“As you know, in this democracy, in order to have a healthy democracy, we have to get to the common good. But the only way to get to the common good is if we have a common set of facts, which we don't seem to have today, and we have a common level of decency. And my problem with the president and what happened today and why I think it affects the country as a whole is, first, we bring up our kids better than this. We teach them not to do this. We tell them not to do this, and it is not the right standard of behavior.”

Thinking Country Problem Kids Today President Common Teach Democracy Healthy Behavior Decency Common Good

Author:Matthew Dowd

“Unemployment is higher in Europe than in the United States and primarily concentrated in immigrant minority populations, so people are worried about what's going to happen and if American-style ghettos are emerging in Europe. There are some of the problems there that America sees associated with the lack of economic inclusion - family breakdown, gang behavior, and racial tensions. I get the sense that in Europe they are much more concerned about these issues than in the United States.”

People Problem Economic Behavior Concerned Worried Tension Inclusion Gang Emerging Breakdown Ghetto

Author:William Julius Wilson

“Cynicism is an enormous problem. I'm actually a hopeful person. But the way to stay hopeful is to acknowledge and to not accept what is absolutely amoral, mentally ill behavior as normal.”

Problem Accepting Behavior Ill Acknowledge Hopeful Cynicism

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Most business leaders don't consider their own causality in the creation of problems. They fail to see that their company could have avoided breakdowns if they had acted differently. We tend to see problems as having been created by someone else or by the "economy". It's good to be a little introspective from time to time. Think about how your own behavior might have gotten your company into a problem, and how it may help to get you out.”

Thinking Helping Problem Leader Economy Failing Creation Behavior Breakdown Introspective

Author:James A. Champy

“Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.”

Children Problem Care School Social Quality Skills Behavior Research Program Fewer Display Infant High Quality Child Care Social Skills Early Education Behavior Problems

Author:Judy Biggert

“Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.”

Men Humans Mean Character Problem Certain Education Four Materials Behavior Concerned Aim Method Intellect Topics

Author:Edward Thorndike

“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

“Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.”

Humans Stills Problem Behavior Library Human Behavior

Book:Look at Me

Source: Look at Me

“All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.”

Humans Reason Problem Psychology Behavior Human Behavior

Book:Michael Crichton: Two Complete Novels

Source: Michael Crichton: Two Complete Novels

“I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.”

Source: Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

“[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.”

Source: Decoded (Enhanced Edition)

“... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.”

Problem Left Knowing Ignorance Behavior Shame Arise Not Knowing Irrational Vacuums Mind Blowing

Book:The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Source: The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

“Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They react to their own problems, pains, and behaviors.”

Problem Pain Behavior Reactionaries Codependent

Book:Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers

Source: Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers

“Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.”

Way Ends Self Problem Seems Left Natural Virtue Habit Behavior Vices Authenticity Behave Spontaneity Bad Behavior

Author:N. T. Wright

“If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are displaying self-caring behavior. You are still able to actively seek solutions to your problems. You are willing to go to great lengths to provide what you believe will be soothing to yourself. This strikes me as optimistic.”

Ifs Believe Stills Ends Self Problem Able Hate Willing Behavior Solutions Suicide Caring Strikes Optimistic Length Hate You If You Believe Soothing

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.”

People Thinking Littles Problem Personality Behavior Spite Traits Adjusting Personality Traits

Book:The Silent Wife: A Novel

Source: The Silent Wife: A Novel

“And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.”

Giving Should Matter Problem Seems Might Simple Positive Positive Thinking Giving Up Behavior Response Encounters Never Giving Up Insurmountable

Book:You Can Make It Happen Every Day

Source: You Can Make It Happen Every Day