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“There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by our appearance, our choice of associates, our behavior. Language communicates so much more than ideas; it reveals our intelligence, our knowledge of a topic, our creativity, our ability to think, our self-confidence, et cetera.”

Thinking Ideas Self Choices Language Leadership Ability Creativity Doubt Speech Behavior Communicate Appearance Self Confidence No Doubt Judged Associates Topics Our Choices

Book:The Language of leadership

Source: The Language of leadership

“No skill, no special aptitude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it was of one sex rather than the other. No child would be relentlessly shaped to one pattern of behavior, but instead there should be many patterns, in a world that had learned to allow to each individual the pattern which was most congenial to his gifts.”

Thinking World Should Children Would Be Individual Sex Imagination Special Skills Behavior Patterns Possessed Precision Vividness

Author:Margaret Mead

“I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.”

Thinking Needs Guy Deals Strength Behavior Bully Putin Bad Behavior

Author:Jeb Bush

“Maybe you should think about the choices in your life, how someone can come and spit some kind of game to you and make you doubt every single thing that is your life, your relationship, your appearance, your job, your ambitions, your marriage, and how those thoughts can lead to choices and behavior that you never thought that you were capable of.”

Thinking Should Kind Jobs Choices Games Doubt Behavior Ambition Capable Appearance Our Relationship Spit

Author:Jurnee Smollett

“When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.”

People Thinking Way Want I Can Sometimes Film Can Do Fiction Missing Behavior Documentaries Observing Unspoken

Author:Robert Greene

“I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic. I get to play out all kinds of bad behavior without anyone actually coming to harm.”

People Thinking Kind Play Home Law Opportunity Moral Behavior Normal Skins Leaving Harm All Kinds Ethical Restraint Bad Behavior Cathartic

Author:Adam Croasdell

“In North America, people get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption, not only in politics, but of spirit as well, when people are so quick to be violent with one another. I think everybody would like to be able to find a solution to make things better. We have the desire to reform inside of us, and we get frustrated because we don't know how to change things, even if it comes to our own behavior. Sometimes you get frustrated because you don't know how to stop that thing that you know is either hurtful to yourself or someone else.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Sometimes Government Able America Spirit Desire Culture Know How Behavior Solutions Corruption Violent Reform Frustrated North America Hurtful

Author:Jennifer Beals

“I think it is important that independent government agencies be put in charge of investigating misconduct so that police departments are no longer allowed to police themselves. There is a conflict of interest there which, I believe, allows police to excuse their own behavior.”

Thinking Believe Important Government I Believe Interest Conflict Behavior Police Independent Excuse Agency Department Investigating Conflict Of Interest Police Department Misconduct Government Agencies

Author:Bernie Sanders

“As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do, and the law says you can impose capital punishment, so you impose it. You can [also] be a Catholic who says we can't kill, we can't kill babies and we can't kill adults. If you let a decision be driven by your personal views, then you are not doing what a judge needs to do, which is enforce the laws of the society that you are in. But you can control your own behavior, and that is the choice that the church and God gives us - what kind of people are we going to be.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Giving Kind Two Law Choices Church Decision Views Judging Baby Behavior Adults Catholic Driven Punishment Capital Punishment Personal Views

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“His response is more than sensible. It reflects his understanding that evens unfold as a refelction of precise karmic order and that a benevolent response in all circumstances will be the most healing one. I think he is so universally admired becuase he exemplifies by his behavior the truth that the essence of natural mind, unclouded by greed or anger or delusion, is that of peace.”

Thinking Mind Order Peace Understanding Natural Healing Circumstances Behavior Essence Response Greed Delusion Sensible Precise Benevolent

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

“I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.”

Thinking Individual Situation Particular Behavior Responsible

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging.”

Thinking Persons Self Reality Easy Sin Attitude Judging Ought Behavior Weakness Critical Focused Righteous Shortcomings Blinded Self Righteous Easy To Judge

Author:Joyce Meyer

“It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness. They're thinking and feeling the world, but they're saying very little, so then you have to communicate it through your behavior.”

Thinking World Littles Play Character Feelings Happens Consciousness Quiet Behavior Harder Communicate Things Happen Streams Stream Of Consciousness

Author:Viola Davis

“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

“I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.”

Thinking Children Mother Certain Social Amount Behavior Standards Pressure Regard Our Children Conform Unnatural Social Pressure

Author:Jillian Medoff

“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."”

“Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.”

Thinking Giving Should Children Age Taught Becoming Conversation Behavior Capable Raises Dancing Ballet

Book:Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding

Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding

“Many people don’t realize the extent to which stories influence our behavior and even shape our culture. Think about how Bible stories teach the fundamentals of religion and rules of conduct. Think of the fables and parables that molded your values. Think of how stories about your national, cultural or family history have shaped your attitudes about yourself and others.”

People Thinking Stories Values Culture Realizing Attitude Teach Influence Shapes Behavior Fundamentals About Yourself Fables Parables Family History Bible Stories

Author:Lawrence Shapiro

“I think Cruella is evil, because she's the devil. But all the other characters, I was able to find a common humanity with them somewhere, knowing where they're most fragile, where they're most vulnerable, knowing some of the things that happened to them that might have formed this kind of behavior.”

Thinking Kind Character Might Able Humanity Evil Common Knowing Happened Behavior Devil Vulnerable Fragile Common Humanity

Author:Glenn Close

“I think it's better to have limits. My limits are different from other people's limits. I'm all for freedom, I'm all for people doing what they want. I'm also all for people shouldering the consequences of their behaviors, and not being assholes, and not lying unless they need to, and being honest except when you shouldn't, and being faithful except when it's okay to cheat. I guess I'm just a mass of contradictions.”

People Thinking Want Needs Different Lying Honest Limits Behavior Mass Consequence Okay Being Honest Faithful Contradiction Cheat Being Faithful

Author:Dan Savage

“I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.”

People Thinking Different Behavior Capacity Different Things Contradictory

Author:Richard Ayoade

“I think if you play characters, it's very important not to ever tag them with any sort of disorder, or diagnose them, or whatever. You have to normalize the behavior to get inside the character.”

Ifs Thinking Important Play Character Behavior Disorder Tag

Author:Cillian Murphy

“I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists in human behavior; if it exists out there then it can exist on the stage. I really try to go to a lot of concerts. A lot of live events. I just try to keep my ears really, really open.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Humans Stage Events Behavior Ears Memoir Helpful Concerts Biographies Human Behavior

Author:Jeanine Tesori

“We're all animals, that we all respond to the same stimuli. If you want to motivate somebody not to have premarital sex, or motivate black bears not to go diving into dumpsters, first you have to think about why they do it. Telling them to stop isn't going to help. There has to be some incentive for them to alter their behavior.”

Ifs Thinking Want Firsts Helping Sex Black Animal Bears Behavior Incentives Stimulus Diving Dumpsters

Author:Adam Carolla

“I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres, with stellar origins like Twentieth Century and Trouble in Paradise. I think as audiences lost their innocence, the genre lost its suspense. To create suspense, you need obstacles, so I gave my couple an obstacle that very few people ever overcome: their own behavior and their past.”

“Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.”

People Thinking Knows Children Sometimes Whole Parent Know How Behavior Raises Blame Ruins Paradox Learned Behavior

Author:Terry McMillan

“I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.”

Thinking Trying Kind Behavior Extensions Embarrassing Old Fashioned Being Old

Author:Phil Elvrum

“Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects.”

Thinking Stories Effects Behavior Perception Labels Bias Evaluate

Author:Michael J Cohen

“Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.”

Thinking Action Next Behavior Increase Reducing Likelihood

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex is only about sex in snakes, or sex in egg-laying reptiles. Although a biologist's job in part is to interpret what organisms do in a broader context, that context does not, and should not, need to include a lesson for human beings. This is true regardless of whether the lesson is something we would like to teach, which means that using animals as vehicles for nonsexist thinking is just as out of bounds as using them to keep women barefoot and pregnant.”

“One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.”

Thinking Should Believe Children Government Parent Behavior Responsible Conservative Upbringing Being Responsible

Author:Lyn Nofziger

“Your doubts are not the product of accurate thinking, but habitual thinking. Years ago you excepted flawed conclusions as correct, begin to live your life as if those warped ideas about your potential were true, and ceased the bold experiment in living that brought you many breakthrough behaviors as a child.”

Ifs Thinking Years Children Ideas Doubt Products Behavior Years Ago Experiments Conclusion Accurate Live Your Life Flawed Breakthrough Habitual

Book:You2: a high-velocity formula for multiplying your personal effectiveness in quantum leaps

Source: You2: a high-velocity formula for multiplying your personal effectiveness in quantum leaps

“As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.”

“I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.”

People Thinking Law Behavior Unpredictable

Author:David Brooks

“You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.”

Thinking Feels Enough Strange Behavior Down And Feel Good Gambling Strange Things Dopamine Downers Overloaded

Author:Bill Nye

“I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.”

Thinking Humans Wells Made Acting Behavior Tunes Human Behavior

Author:Scoot McNairy

“I think a current understanding about urban behavior tells us that it's important that people get out and be able to get away from the concrete jungles and the dense environment where they live for their own mental well-being. If they don't do this, the costs in human loss and human sickness will be far greater than what we would be expending for these kinds of releases and open spaces.”

“If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what possible constraint on their behavior does anyone think will remain?”

Ifs Thinking Doe Done Political Nations Behavior Financial Criminals Punishment Remove Elites Constraints

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.”

Thinking Men Humans Different Today Practice Circumstances Behavior Management Foundation Investment Crowds Brilliant Foolish Tendencies Folly Investors Lemmings Investment Management

Author:Charlie Munger

“I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.”

Thinking Want Should Children School Practice Teacher Violence Behavior Violent

Author:Bill Cosby

“Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.”

Thinking Long Self Our Lives Goes On Please Safe Behavior Messages Hundred Regard Contact

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.”

Ifs Thinking Children Age Realizing Crazy Behavior Constant Addiction Dependent Privacy Bells Segregation Sequence Surveillance Schooling Curriculum Confinement

Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change; there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. You need not aim at these - you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention.”

Thinking Needs Giving Mind Looks May Feelings Results Attention Watches Behavior Conscious Aim Charity Fruit Clarity Witness Purity Noticing Inattention

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“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.”

Thinking Kind Whole Use Actors Talking Behavior Sells Sickness Toms Shocking Vulgar Private Life Not Talking Inappropriate Cruise Great Actors

Author:Lauren Bacall

“Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.”

People Thinking Doe Asks Moon Behavior Full Moon

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A lot of people think PMI is the genome project 2.0. No. This is about all the influences on disease - genetics is in there, but the environment is in there as well, health choices, behaviors, all the factors that are important, otherwise we're not doing what we promised we would do - which is in a holistic way look at how people stay healthy or how do they fall ill.”

People Thinking Way Wells Looks Important Choices Fall Environment Influence Healthy Disease Behavior Projects Ill Factors Genetics Holistic Genome Genome Project

Author:Francis Collins

“No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?”

People Thinking Knows Way Causes Watches Behavior

Author:Seth Godin

“I do think there is an enhanced awareness of insecurity and vulnerability that induces anxiety that creates pressure on teachers and administrators to offer simplistic explanations and to be resistant to expressions of attitudes that can be viewed as unpatriotic, which is further interpreted as applicable to any tendency to challenge the government when it claims to be acting overseas to avoid repetitions of 9/11 or to encroach on domestic freedom to identify suspicious persons and behaviors.”

“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

“You have rappers saying "stay off drugs, go to school" - empty verbal behavior. I think all of this became institutionalized in the early '90s. And it's become more and more solidified, more and more entrenched.”

Thinking School Drug Behavior Empty Rapper

Author:Carl Hart

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