“I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at talking about material things, really bad at talking about emotions, really good at stuff we can count, really bad at the deeper stuff that actually drives behavior.” WorldHumansStuffViewsEmotionTalkingHuman NaturePolicyMaterialsBehaviorDeeperConclusionShallowMaterial Things Author:David Brooks
“Art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising, playing, socializing, learning, loving, and caring, should be recognized, encouraged and developed in everyone. Via art, experience is heightened, elevated, made more memorable and significant” ShouldHumansArtMadeHuman BeingsCommonTalkingExerciseBehaviorNormalArt IsUniversalCaringSignificantMemorableOccupationSocializing Author:Ellen Dissanayake
“You seem cynical because you're always talking about that selfish behavior that's dressed up as altruism. It doesn't mean there isn't altruism. It just means that it's harder to make jokes about altruism.” MeanSeemsTalkingBehaviorJokesHarderSelfishCynicalAltruismDressed Up Author:Stephen Colbert
“Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals dont think in a language. Its sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. Its putting these sensory based memories into categories.” ThinkingLanguageMemoriesAnimalTalkingBehaviorSmellCategoriesAutismSensoryAnimal Behavior Author:Temple Grandin
“The term revolution means: a sudden, radical, and complete change from the way things are normally done. I love that definition because I really feel that in order for us to start walking in the kind of love that Christ commanded us to - the "love your neighbor as yourself" kind - it's going to take a radical change in our current behavior. The church has become passive and selfish and it's going to take a revolution to get us back to the place where we are not just talking the talk, but walking in a love that shows the world Christ's love.” WorldWayFeelsKindMeanDoneShowsOrderTermChristChurchTalkingLove YouRevolutionWalkingBehaviorDefinitionsCurrentsNeighborSelfishRadicalPassiveKinds Of LoveRadical ChangeLove Your NeighborLove Your Neighbor As Yourself Author:Joyce Meyer
“I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake City, Utah, we were taught - and we are still led to believe - that the most important value is obedience. But that obedience in the name of religion or patriotism ultimately takes our souls. So I think it's this larger issue of what is acceptable and what is not; where do we maintain obedience and law and where do we engage in civil disobedience - where we can cross the line physically and metaphorically and say, "No, this is no longer appropriate behavior."” ThinkingBelieveStillsImportantSoulLawValuesNamesLinesCitiesTalkingGrowing UpIssuesGrowingTaughtBehaviorTraditionCrossesObedienceAppropriateLakesAcceptableSaltDisobedienceCivil DisobedienceUtahSalt Lake CityImportant ValuesAppropriate Behavior Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest and self-destructive behavior. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact.” IfsWritingSelfStoriesLightWould BeWantedFilmStrongTalkingStageEmotionalBehaviorImpactMusicalLove StorySensualDimensionsAddressesDestructiveAdolescenceSelf DestructiveUnrestSelf Destructive BehaviorStrong EmotionalDestructive Behavior Author:Alante Kavaite
“The funny thing is, the older I get, the less I enjoy talking when I act. I don't like talking anymore. I like behavior. All of the running and gunning, and the fights and the stunts, is just awesome fun.” RunningFightingFunEnjoyTalkingBehaviorFunny Things Author:Grant Bowler
“We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.” IfsWantWritingYearsBelieveHumansReadingEasyForgetPleasureEffortTalkingPracticeAmountWalkingTruth IsActivityBehaviorEatingPerformancesFundamentalsInstantExpertsGratificationTemptingHuman ActivityReading And WritingTuningInstant Gratification Author:Donald A. Norman
“When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.” ThinkingKindWholeUseActorsTalkingBehaviorSellsSicknessTomsShockingVulgarPrivate LifeNot TalkingInappropriateCruiseGreat Actors Author:Lauren Bacall
“Let's have some boilerplate language that accurately describes the candidate that we're talking about. If readers are unfamiliar, here are the descriptions of his behavior and here are the links to that behavior that is described.” IfsLanguageTalkingReaderBehaviorCandidatesDescriptionLinksUnfamiliar Author:Ryan Grim
“I think that's the real shame: We spent the last 48 hours talking about these disgusting, disgusting comments and disgusting behavior instead of talking about hurricane relief or what's going on in Flint, Michigan. It's just appalling to have to be dealing with such nonsense and such disgusting, you know, criminal speech.” ThinkingKnowsRealLastsHoursTalkingSpeechBehaviorShameCriminalsReliefNonsenseCommentDisgustingHurricanesMichigan48 Hours Author:Natalie Portman
“I think that unlike W Bush who was an actual evangelical and sincerely so (my family knew the Bush family), of course Trump will disappoint when it comes to evangelicals. I'm not talking about personal behavior but policy.” ThinkingCoursesTalkingPolicyTrumpBehaviorMy FamilySincerelyDisappointNot TalkingEvangelicalPersonal Behavior Author:Frank Schaeffer
“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.” NeedsProblemWaitingTalkingBehaviorCrucialFloatsParadigmParadigm Shift Author:Ross W. Greene
“Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.” LittlesPoliticalPoliticsPresidentTalkingWifeCarBehaviorCampaignsParades Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.” PeopleDecisionBrainTalkingBehaviorCommunicateGutsTangibleRationalize Author:Simon Sinek
“Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.” PeopleYearsHumansLongHas BeensTwoTalkingChangedActivityBehaviorFilledAncientEach DayAmazedHuman BehaviorHomo SapiensDowntownPhysical ThingsTucson Author:Andrew Weil
“Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All around you these people fall into prostrate positions, some of them weeping. Where are you? Sara’s answer was immediate: in an asylum. Perhaps, Kreizler answered, but you could also be in a church. In the one place the behavior would be considered mad; in the other, not only sane, but as respectable as any human activity can be.” PeopleHumansSaidWould BeFallSoundChurchAnswersTalkingImaginePositionActivityBehaviorMadHallsSaneEchoesWeepingRespectableAsylumsHuman ActivityCrumbling Book:The Alienist: A Novel Source: The Alienist: A Novel