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“Our state of mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a person has a calm and stable mind, this influences his or her attitude and behavior in relation to others. In other words, if someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.”

Source: Path To Tranquility

“As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.”

Important Play Past Roles Policy Behavior Investing Financial Assets Monetary Financial Markets Monetary Policy

Author:Timothy Geithner

“In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all human culture as we know it. But the separation of the teacher's role from the role of all adults who inducted the young into the habitual behavior of the group, was a comparatively late invention. Furthermore, when we do find explicit and defined teaching, in primitive societies we find it tied in with a sense of the rareness or the precariousness of some human tradition.”

“In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's [sexual] affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II, affairs could lead to divorce, so men's affairs did place women's economic security in jeopardy. We did not want political leaders who would be role models for behavior that would put women's economic security in jeopardy.”

Men Want Would Be Political Leader Roles Economic Stage Security Behavior Models Affair Divorce Role Models Political Leaders Jeopardy Economic Security

Author:Warren Farrell

“Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as a guiding principle both in social theory and as a basis for human behavior. Such a development when it occurs will alter the course of human history.”

“A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.”

Way Attention Roles Activity Behavior Concern Direct Psychological Participation Interpersonal

Author:Nancy Chodorow

“Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don't deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.”

“The amygdala, along with related areas..., plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially sensitive to social interactions.”

Play Social Memories Roles Behavior Perception Areas Sensitive Related Regions Crucial Interaction Social Interaction Coordinating

Book:The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

Source: The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

“Dance therapy provides an outlet for energy and a safe and playful environment in which many areas of conflict can be identified and worked through, and appropriate adult roles and behavior tried out.”

Energy Roles Environment Safe Conflict Behavior Adults Areas Therapy Appropriate Outlets

Book:Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

Source: Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

“It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.”

Thinking Children Book Ideas Literature Roles Behavior Models Boring Features Role Models Exemplary Patronizing Boring Books

Author:Mac Barnett

“Law has at least two roles: one is to define and regulate the limits of acceptable behavior. The other is to teach principles for individuals to make individual choices.”

Two Law Choices Individual Principles Roles Teach Limits Behavior Acceptable Individual Choice

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“The other reason why people don't take a stand, which is very true in this election, is looking at [Donald] Trump and fearing reprisal, fearing reprisal from someone who is seeking the highest, most powerful role in the land, who has had a history of doing everything from attacks, threats and lawsuits and who has a complete kind of vengeful, narcissistic behavior, which makes people legitimately worried, almost like a schoolyard bully, that if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?”

People Ifs Kind Reason Powerful Steps Roles Land Trump Behavior Highest Election Threat Seeking Worried Reason Why Most Powerful Bully Narcissistic Step Up Lawsuit Very True Vengeful Reprisal

Author:Reid Hoffman

“It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it also serves as the main messenger in the reward systems, guiding a person toward food, drink, mates, and all things useful for survival. Because of its role in the reward system, imbalances in dopamine can trigger gambling, overeating, and drug addiction - behaviors that result from a reward system gone awry.”

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“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