Best behavior & traits Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.”

Long Taken Subjects Serious Judging Behavior Judgment Standards Males Definitions Traits Questioning Norm

Book:Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence

Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence

“Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are interesting. That makes an interesting story.”

Humans Real Play Stories Fun Interesting Behavior Intense Villain Traits Caricatures Real Human Interesting Stories

Author:Sharlto Copley

“The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.”

Source: The Lost World

“People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion.”

People Thinking Mind Remember Form Subjects Personality Behavior Notion Very Good Sentences Impression Agents Abstract Traits Really Beautiful

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.”

Humans Creativity Behavior Excellence Traits Domain Distinctive

Author:Ellis Paul Torrance

“[Donald] Trump's behavior during the presidential campaign was often erratic, seemingly based on discernable personality traits, including narcissism, arrogance, impulsiveness, and a lack of predictability.”

Personality Trump Behavior Including Campaigns Presidential Arrogance Traits Narcissism Predictability Presidential Campaign Personality Traits Erratic

Author:David Krieger

“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 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.”

Character Action Quality Moral Behavior Committed Neighborhood Traits Predictable Character Trait

Author:Nomy Arpaly

“Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability in behavior that traditional virtue ethics requires for someone to have a one-word-in-English character trait such as "benevolence". Other things being equal, a person with more of a desire for other people's wellbeing will do more for other people's wellbeing, but things are almost never equal.”

Thinking Character Desire Virtue Equal Behavior Ethics Traits Benevolence Wellbeing Predictability Being Equal Character Trait

Author:Nomy Arpaly

“Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.”

Has Beens Differences Study Personality Behavior Ideals Meaningful Traits Twins Womb Innate Identical Labs Matching Operating Systems Identical Twin

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.”

Thinking Should Age Behavior Adults Addresses Criticize Traits Irrational Abolish Irresponsibility

Author:Adora Svitak

“He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.”

People Men Way Believe Kind Young Found Causes Behavior Sake Young Man Reasonable Shock Traits Nonconformist Infuriating

Book:The Diamond Age

Source: The Diamond Age

“We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.”

Way Humans Self Social Worst Awareness Behavior Empathy Treats Self Awareness Admire Display Traits Finest Elephants Human Behavior Social Intelligence

Author:Graydon Carter

“Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.”

People Thinking Littles Problem Personality Behavior Spite Traits Adjusting Personality Traits

Book:The Silent Wife: A Novel

Source: The Silent Wife: A Novel

“To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.”

Knows Men Giving Kind Persons Found Sin Depends Circumstances Behavior Definitions Possession Free Will Traits Reinforcement

Author:B. F. Skinner

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