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“I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.”

Thinking Trying Important Body Term Can Do Space Figures Behavior Unique Bones Data Preserves Muscles Measuring Density

Author:John L. Phillips

“The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior.”

“Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.”

Thinking Motivation Term Money Creativity Behavior Performances Crush Diminish Short Term Unethical Intrinsic Motivation Short Term Thinking

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Wells Form Choices Belief Sex Term Failing Succeed Members Behavior Normal Capacity Human Behavior Capacity To Love Bisexuality Human Capacity

Author:Margaret Mead

“The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure and functional behavior, as distinct from the organization of the data flow and controls, the logical design, and the physical implementation. i. Additional details concerning the architecture”

Used Term Design Behavior Flow Organization Structure Details Architecture Data Logical Attributes Programmers Implementation

Author:Fred Brooks

“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.”

Way Firsts Doe Problem Used Speak Given Term Behavior Concerned Connections Function Relation Structure Series Tendencies Defined Regions Probability Systematic Circuits Neurons Manifold

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.”

World Mind Real Term Fields Behavior Conscious Built Metaphor Real World Vocabulary Subjective Conscious Mind Analog

Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long history of short-term thinking and self-destructive behavior among my fellow comic book creators. No matter how many horror stories they have heard they won't even go so far as to hire themselves a lawyer when they need it. It breaks my heart. I am a very proud union member of the Writers Guild. And I can't imagine my fellow comic creators being able to pull something like this together.”

“Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in terms of heredity, whether it be of race, or sex, or class. Every social institution which teaches human beings to cringe to those above and step on those below must be replaced by institutions which teach people to look each other straight in the face.”

Source: And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

“It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion”

Should Long Eye Term Opinion Practice Behavior Criticism Essence Investing Average Long Term Investors Eccentric Unconventional

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“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.”

“There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you young fellows, than to know how to behave yourselves prudently towards those whom you do not like. Your passions are warm, and your heads are light; you hate all those who oppose your views, either of ambition or love; and a rival, in either, is almost a synonymous term for any enemy.”

Knows Light Young Hate Passion Difficult Term Views Enemy Know How Like You Behavior Ambition Fellows Warm Behave Rivals Rivalry

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.”

“Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.”

Children Term Behavior Small Child

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior”

Self Speak Social Term Behavior Efficacy Self Efficacy Informative Social Behavior

Author:Albert Bandura

“I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.”

People Way Term Emotional Huge Behavior Intellectual Mark Blind Spots Sophisticated Blind Spots

Author:Noah Baumbach

“The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from the demand that our best behavior depends on our ability to think abstractly, in terms of a universal rule, about something called humanity, that we need to understand humanity abstractly so that we can act responsibly towards those who represent it.”

Thinking Needs Form Humanity Term Ability Depends Demand Behavior Universal Absolutes Notion Conviction Transcendence Absolute Power

Author:Talal Asad

“When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.”

Political Politics Term Drug Behavior Patient Colleagues Similarity Term Limits Morphine

Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

“If you are a libertine, if you're not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It's like the person who knows they're not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else.”

Ifs Knows Persons Long Given Term Behavior Projects Faithful Long Term Trustworthy Mistrust Libertine Not Trustworthy

Author:Ben Kingsley

“Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.”

Has Beens Used Term Behavior Excuse Phrases Introduction Psychoanalysis

Author:Sean Connery

“Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.”

Social Term Powerful Behavior Function Guilt

Author:David D. Burns

“The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value" is one of preference. In classical science it was supposed that the world always works in terms of absolute certainty and that "cause" is the more appropriate word to describe it. But in modern quantum physics all that is changed. Particles "prefer" to do what they do. An individual particle is not absolutely committed to one predictable behavior. What appears to be an absolute cause is just a very consistent pattern of preferences.”

“Wall Street can be a dangerous place for investors. You have no choice but to do business there, but you must always be on your guard. The standard behavior of Wall Streeters is to pursue maximization of self-interest; the orientation is usually short term. This must be acknowledged, accepted, and dealt with. If you transact business with Wall Street with these caveats in mind, you can prosper. If you depend on Wall Street to help you, investment success may remain elusive.”

“In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying "I'm sorry," is that there's so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.”

Want Moving Term My Own Regret Activity Behavior Sorry Moving Forward I'm Sorry Funny Things Saying I'm Sorry

Author:Bill Ayers

“And with the Occupy Movement, it's really ironic how the police come as representatives and enforcers of the powers that be, even though the people in the Occupy Movement are really on their side - not in terms of their behavior, but in terms of their economic status, in terms of who the police are in society and how much they're paid, and if you boil it down to the economics of it, the police should be out there marching with the Occupy Movement.”

People Ifs Should Sides Term Economic Movement Behavior Economics Paid Police Ironic Representatives Occupy Movement Economic Status

Author:Oren Moverman

“I'm very eclectic in terms of what I like, what I read, what I watch, my own consumer behavior.”

Term My Own Watches Behavior Consumers Eclectic

Author:Robert Schwentke

“I think companies trying to exercise a so-called inversion should be hit with an exit tax. So I want to change behaviors, and I am deeply distressed about quarterly capitalism, because I think it is causing businesses to make decisions that are not helping the long-term profitability of American corporations or the success of our economy.”

Thinking Want Should Trying Long Helping Term Decision Company Economy Exercise Taxes Behavior Capitalism Corporations Long Term Exit Profitability Inversions

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I think everyone understands when these cycles are disrupted, especially in terms of institutionalized poverty, it's always will be difficult - patterns are put into place, and certain behaviors keep getting repeated.”

Thinking Certain Difficult Term Poverty Behavior Patterns Cycles

Author:James Redford

“In terms of my conversations with [Vladimir] Putin, these are conversations that took place before the election. As I indicated, there has been very clear proof that they have engaged in cyber attacks. This isn't new. It's not unique to Russia. There are a number of states where we've seen low-level cyber attacks and industrial espionage and, you know, other behavior that we think should be out of bounds.”

Thinking Knows Should Has Beens States Term Levels Numbers Clear Conversation Behavior Unique Lows Election Bounds Proof Russia Engaged Putin Espionage Cyber Low Level Cyber Attacks

Author:Barack Obama

“Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior, and excesses have occurred in the opposite direction, in de-regulating other types of behavior. As a matter of fact, if they continue to regulate the airlines, we might have safer skies, and if they slack off on the radio, we might have better radio. If they just use it as a threat, eventually there's going to be another test case like the one that the 7 dirty words ruling came out of, and basically, its extortion.”

Ifs Wells Matter Facts Use Might Certain Term Cases Sky Type Behavior Tests Opposites Threat Radio Administration Dirty Excess Ruling Airline Matter Of Fact Dirty Words Extortion

Author:Frank Zappa

“No one can say that this was the decisive and [Russians hacking ] was what elected [Donald] Trump, but clearly his behavior during the campaign in terms of what he said in the week or two before the election was unacceptable.”

Said Two Term Week Trump Behavior Election Campaigns Hacking

Author:John Lewis

“If we allow the United States to set the precedent that national borders don't matter when it comes to the protection of people's information, other countries are watching. They're paying attention to our examples and what is normative behavior in terms of dealing with digital information.”

People Ifs Country Matter States Term United Attention United States Information Example Behavior Protection Pay Attention Borders Digital Other Countries Precedent National Borders

Author:Edward Snowden

“The term syndrome generally appears to be a constellation, or collection, of similar traits or behaviors within an individual. So, savants do have sort of a constellation of symptoms, which is characterized by some spectacular skill, or skills, coupled with this massive memory which is grafted on to some underlying disability. So those three conditions quantify, in my mind, the term syndrome.”

Mind Three Individual Term Memories Conditions Skills Behavior Collections Massive Disability Traits Symptoms Spectacular Constellations Syndromes Savants

Author:Darold Treffert

“I started to call myself a "rational therapist" in January 1955; later I used the term "rational emotive." Now I call myself a "rational emotive behavior therapist." But from the start, I always included philosophic techniques as well as experiential, emotional and behavioral techniques.”

Wells Used Term Emotional Behavior Technique Rational Therapists January Philosophic

Author:Albert Ellis

“I urge people not to think in terms of "solutions," but in terms of intelligent responses to the quandaries and predicaments that we face. And there are intelligent responses that we can bring forth. But when I hear the word "solution," I always suspect that there's a hidden agenda there. And the hidden agenda is: "Please, can you please tell us how we can keep on living exactly the way we're living now, without having to really change our behavior very much?" And that's sort of what's going on in this country. And it's not going to work.”

People Thinking Country Term Behavior Solutions Intelligent Response Going To Work

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“We are getting close to the point where as every platform of tech that has any level of scale gets bought by either Google or Facebook or sometimes Microsoft. We are getting to the point where we see some oligopoly in terms of behavior online, and that it's really problematic because the oligopolies are completely non transparent, they are terrible in terms of labor and economic equality and they support systems of surveillance. It can create a world where we are all placed in bubbles, where the systems themselves can be manipulated by people who don't have our best interests in mind.”

People World Mind Sometimes Term Interest Support Economic Terrible Behavior Labor Online Bubbles Google

Author:Ramesh Srinivasan

“We can't change the fossil fuel companies' behavior in isolation from the rest of the industrial system. As long as they have customers, they're going to continue to operate, whether or not we divest of their stock. However, divesting might be helpful in terms of disrupting the story that what these companies do is perfectly okay. This situation differs from apartheid in a key regard though: racial equality in South Africa was no threat whatsoever to capitalism as we know it. Ending the fossil fuel era is a much deeper change.”

Long Term Situation Behavior Capitalism Okay Threat Isolation Helpful South Africa Fossil Fuel Apartheid

Author:Charles Eisenstein

“In fact, I am so happy to be turning 40 and finally having a reason to take responsibility for my own behavior. It's also worked for me in terms of my physical appearance and emotional make-up and people entrusting me to bring the things a role deserves. I don't know whether that's depth or being a curmudgeon or what.”

People Reason Term Responsibility Emotional Behavior Deserve Appearance Taking Responsibility Physical Appearance

Author:Josh Brolin

“There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans. There's evolutionary individual psychology, there's evolutionary social psychology. In Darwin's terms, evolution couldn't exist without variation, and variation is important in behavioral genetics. And so on, and so on. There are so many instances in which evolution actually sharpens the precision, I think, with which one can find out the importance of differences. We're interested in differences as well as commonalities.”

Thinking Important Different Individual Term Animal Psychology Evolution Behavior Importance Ecology Social Psychology Commonality

Author:Brian Boyd

“If you study the behavior or the attitude of Syria, Iran, and U.S., you understand that these three countries can't come to terms with each other.”

Country Term Attitude Study Behavior Syria

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.”

People Ifs Thinking Inspirational Needs Goal Term Education Behavior Make Sense Motive Setting Goals Education And Teachers Teacher And Student

Author:Thomas Mann

“The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.”

Government Term Can Do Leader Behavior Overcoming Vivid Irresponsible Parental Bad Parenting

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.”

“The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.”

Long Term Behavior Lifestyle Diets Long Term

Author:Francis Collins

“No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.”

Earth Culture Term Attitude Behavior Consequence Crisis West Pursue Atmosphere Contradiction Usual Surreal

Author:Terence McKenna

“To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.”

Humans Long Science Process Term Human Nature Evolution Limits Behavior Deeper Long Term Significance Human Behavior Deeper Meaning

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology.”

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