Best behavior & wells Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.”

Wells Ends Hands Imagination Existence Moral Mankind Position Behavior Majors Foundation Complexes Atheist Permanent Hunts Deities Theism Theist Pretender Moral Behavior Napoleon Complex

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.”

“The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.”

Wells Differences Compassion Rights Behavior Well Being Aggressive Gentleness Our Words Assertiveness Assertive Aggressiveness Being Assertive

Author:Sharon Anthony Bower

“To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake, for it eliminates that person's freedom to create his or her own opinion and drastically affects the emerging picture of the relationship.”

Knows Wells Persons Enough Understanding Mistake Opinion Perspective Behavior Assuming Tragic Gross Emerging

Author:Meredith L. Young-Sowers

“Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.”

People Humans Wells Whole Shows Groups Evolution Balance Behavior Training Patterns Evolve Builder Destroyers

Book:The Ultimate Resource 2

Source: The Ultimate Resource 2

“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

“Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.”

Wells Might Form Natural Environment Greater Behavior Function Simplicity Locals Complexity Yield Selection Adaptation Natural Selection Habitat Natural Habitats

Book:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.”

“All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all... Ah, well, that's not a fruitful thing to wish, is it?”

Ifs World Wells Wish Animal Behavior Reaching Habitat Another Life Animal Behavior

Author:Brian Aldiss

“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 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

“The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.”

World Way Wells Stills Whole Would Be Attitude Behavior Islam Tolerance Whole World Tendencies Afghanistan Profitable Extremist Taliban Insisting

Author:Ahmad Shah Massoud

“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.”

“Most people do not realize that as they continue to find things to complain about, they disallow their own physical well-being. Many do not realize that before they were complaining about an aching body or a chronic disease, they were complaining about many other things first. It does not matter if the object of your complaint is about someone you are angry with, behavior in others that you believe is wrong, or something wrong with your own physical body. Complaining is complaining, and it disallows improvement.”

People Ifs Firsts Believe Wells Doe Matter Body Realizing Objects Disease Behavior Angry Complaining Improvement Well Being Complaints Physical Body

Author:Esther Hicks

“Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.”

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than none. Since many girls as well as boys buy the idea that sexual aggression and exploitation is normal masculine behavior, it may not even occur to them to demand to be treated as equals.”

Thinking Needs Wells May Ideas Girl Social Attention Boys Acceptance Demand Behavior Normal Treated Approval Aggression Exploitation Masculine Harassment

Author:Leora Tanenbaum

“There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.”

Humans Wells Play Difficult Human Nature Behavior Noble Human Life

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents matches what they say.”

Humans Wells Children Jobs Joy Parent Hurt Poor Situation Leader Teaching Behavior Judgment Disappointment Acknowledge Empowering Boss Nurturing Good Judgment

Author:Virginia Satir

“Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.”

Needs Wells Children Ideas Feelings Certain Values Wish Parent Understanding Results Situation Produce Particular Ought Behavior Flow Relation Our Children Method Predictable

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.”

Humans Wells Matter Realizing Human Beings Identity Behavior Capacity Mere Complexes Manipulation Homosexuality Distinguished Computation Kinsey

Book:Homosexual; oppression and liberation

Source: Homosexual; oppression and liberation

“Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differencesrather than the overwhelming similarities in parents' behaviors. I think this is a hangover from the 1950s re-emergence of father as a parent. He has to be special. The best summary of the evidence on mothers and fathers with their babies is that young children of both sexes, in most circumstances, like both parents equally well. Fathers, like mothers, are good parents first and gender representatives second.”

“Studios felt like Blu-ray was going to be the next panacea, and so they dumped the prices (of traditional DVDs) and devalued the product. That's a misreading of consumer behavior as well as a misreading of the economic environment.”

Wells Next Felt Environment Economic Products Behavior Studios Traditional Consumers Rays Dvds Dumped Panacea Misreading

Author:Bill Mechanic

“A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.”

Wells Boys Quiet Behavior Frightened Ambitious

Author:Mason Cooley

“Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a new measure of sexual freedom, there's still no word in the language that doesn't reek with pejorative connotation to describe a woman who has sex freely. Since language frames thought and sets its limits, this is not a trivial matter. For without a word that describes without condemning, it's hard to think about it neutrally as well. When we say the words 'promiscuous woman,' therefore, it's a statement about her character, not just her sexual behavior.”

Thinking Wells Stills Two Matter Hard Character Language Sex Women Interesting Half Revolution Limits Behavior Decades Statements Condemning Connotation Promiscuous Sexual Revolution

Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.”

Way Wells Facts Form Choices Habit Behavior Anger Angry Reactions Insane Insanity Behave Frustration Severe

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Still, I figure we shouldn't' discourage fans of actively managed funds. With all their buying and selling, active investors ensure the market is reasonably efficient. That makes it possible for the rest of us to do the sensible thing, which is to index. Want to join me in this parasitic behavior? To build a well-diversified portfolio, you might stash 70 percent of your stock portfolio into a Wilshire 5000-index fund and the remaining 30 percent in an international-index fund.”

“Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.”

Humans Wells Certain Human Nature Amount Discipline Behavior Eternal Built Horse Mathematics Investing Stuck Predictions Human Behavior Diagnosis Basics Horse Sense

Author:Charlie Munger

“For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose intellectual development is slowed down. No matter how well he is endowed intellectually, if direct action and immediate gratification are the guiding principles of his behavior, there will be less incentive to develop the higher mental processes, to reason, to employ the imagination creatively. . . .”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“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

“The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always produce the outcomes. Similar outcomes can occur for reasons other than the person's actions, which further complicates inferential judgment. Effects that arise independently of one's actions distort the influence of similar effects produced by the actions, but only on some occasions. Given a strong cognitive set to perceive regularities, even chance joint occurrences of events can be easily misjudged as genuine relationships of low contingent probability”

“I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.”

Wells Language Social Parent Simple Rooms Millions Grace Doors Behavior Expectations Constant Silly Abstract Rebellion Household Better Life Closed Doors Well Mannered Social Graces

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be in your good Behavior and that of my other Children. My Hopes from all of you are very agreable. God grant, I may not be disappointed.”

Wells May Children I Can Family Behavior Satisfaction Grants Disappointed Principal I May Not Be Good Behavior

Author:John Adams

“Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior. ... New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin.”

“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.”

“Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get reciprocation tendency, you get deprival super-reaction syndrome, the thing is going away... I mean it just absolutely is designed to manipulate people into idiotic behavior.”

People Wells Mean Made Guy Turns Social Brain Behavior Proof Reactions Tendencies Going Away Manipulate Other Guys Syndromes Idiotic Bidding Auctions

Author:Charlie Munger

“Well in the history of the See's Candy Company they always say, "I never did it before, and I'm never going to do it again." And we cashier them. It would be evil not to, because terrible behavior spreads.”

Wells Would Be Evil Company Terrible Behavior Spread Candy Cashiers

Author:Charlie Munger

“If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well isolated with a fixed salary. Judges in this whole thing have come out pretty well - there have been relatively few scandals.”

Ifs Want Wells Has Beens Whole Pay Cases Judging Behavior Bases Paid Fixed Isolated Scandal Salary Good Behavior

Author:Charlie Munger

“Israel's [as well as our] enjoyment of the land is contingent on their behavior. Blessings or cruses lie before them; the choice is theirs.”

Wells Lying Choices Land Blessing Behavior Israel Enjoyment

Author:Max Anders

“Modern 'public health' initiatives have moved well beyond what could reasonably be classified as public goods. Today, government undertakes all sorts of policies in the name of public health that are aimed at regulating personal behavior.”

Wells Government Today Names Modern Policy Behavior Moved Goods Initiative Public Health Personal Behavior

Author:Radley Balko

“We act, we behave, and we feel the vibration that we're in at the present time according to what we consider our self image to be. And we do not deviate from that pattern. The image you hold of yourself is a premise, a foundation (idea) on which your entire personality is built. This image, not only controls your behavior but your circumstances as well.”

Feels Wells Ideas Self Personality Circumstances Behavior Built Foundation Patterns Behave Vibrations Premises Present Time Deviate

Author:Maxwell Maltz

“Habits are changed by practicing new behaviors, and this is true for mental habits as well.”

Wells Changed Habit Behavior

Book:Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“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

“Two questions help us see why we are unlikely to get what we want by using punishment... The first question is: What do I want this person to do that's different from what he or she is currently doing? If we ask only this first question, punishment may seem effective because the threat or exercise of punitive force may well influence the person's behavior. However, with the second question, it becomes evident that punishment isn't likely to work: What do I want this person's reasons to be for doing what I'm asking?”

Ifs Want Firsts Wells May Persons Two Different Reason Helping Seems Asks Force Influence Exercise Behavior Asking Threat Punishment Evident Unlikely

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.”

Wells Children Action Husband Behavior Connected Well Being My Children Over You Boss My Husband

Author:Michelle Obama

“The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.”

People Want Wells Problem Bigs Running Games Easy Realizing Behavior Critical Driving Consumers Steam Big Problems Linux Purchasing Holding Back

Author:Gabe Newell

“Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.”

People Wells Mean Children Sometimes Age Teach Discipline Behavior Findings Criticism Encouragement Faults Confused Fault Finding

Author:Susan W. Tanner

“Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well.”

Wells Doe Force Chance Creation Behavior Increase Independent Independence Sake Financial Guides Artistic Syndromes Financial Independence Mimicry Artistic Creation

Author:Fady Joudah

“I did a lot of work with early 20th century attitudes, the kind of superficial notions and behavior that prompt people who don't know history very well to think that "people were different back then" - but beneath all that are characters who react in ways that we can all recognize, and will always be able to recognize.”

People Thinking Knows Way Wells Kind Different Character Able Attitude Century Behavior Notion Superficial 20th Century Prompts

Author:James Vance

“When it came to, like, appropriate behavior towards one another, it was - I was well-versed.”

Wells Behavior Appropriate Appropriate Behavior

Author:Seth Rogen

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