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“It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology, their thought forms, their lingual structures, their history, their present moment, their future ideas, and the quality of their emotions.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“After Mengistu consolidated his power in 1978, his personality gradually began to change. His ability to listen and his patience faded away. We could now see these qualities were pretences only; he had been putting on his best behavior in his bid for support.”

Ability Quality Support Personality Behavior Faded Pretence

Author:Mengistu Haile Mariam

“The quality of a person's character can be known partly by the attitude of his ally who likes him TRULY and, probably full, by understanding who he likes REALLY as his buddy with his behavior.”

Persons Character Understanding Attitude Quality Known Behavior Likes Allies Buddy

Author:Anuj

“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.”

“The human experience can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all decisions are of the past, all decisions are about the future. The image of the future, therefore, is the key to all choice-oriented behavior. The character and quality of the images of the future which prevail in a society is therefore the most important clue to its overall dynamics.”

Humans Important Character Past Choices Decision Quality Keys Behavior Observation Clue Human Experience Dynamics

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“It is easier to recognize the quality of leadership in the behavior of their followers than it is in the behavior of the leader.”

Quality Leader Easier Behavior Followers

Author:Kevin Lowe

“The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.”

Humans Literature Human Beings Numbers Quality Moral Involved Morality Behavior Vary Ratios Inverse Moral Behavior

Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956

Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956

“Leaders are not modest, and more importantly, the extensive social science research on narcissism, self-promotion, and similar constructs shows that these qualities and behaviors are useful for getting hired, achieving promotions, keeping one's job, and obtaining a higher salary.”

Self Shows Jobs Social Quality Leader Achieve Higher Behavior Research Narcissism Modest Constructs Promotion Salary Obtaining Social Science Self Promotion Science Research

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a great weakness to want to bedeck oneself in qualities which are not his own. If he esteemed virtue above all other things, neither the favors of fortune nor the advantages of position would change a man's face or heart.”

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Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart.”

“I am not committed in any way to the traditional concept of character - the concept of "character trait" as involving predictable behavior. I am committed to a view in the neighborhood - the view that the moral worth of one's actions depends on the quality of will expressed in them.”

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Author:Nomy Arpaly

“The core philosophy we share with leaders is that everyone can develop the qualities in themselves. We all have strengths, but where we have gaps, we can make small changes in our behavior that make a big difference in how others see us as leaders.”

Philosophy Quality Leader Share Behavior Having Strength

Author:Suzanne Bates

“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

“The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.”

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Author:Guy Debord

“It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.”