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“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

“I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding for homosexuals and that displays such gross indifference for sexual gradations and variations and the great significance they have for living. It is completely foreign to me to wish to regard such people as less valuable, less moral, incapable of noble sentiments and behavior.”

People World Littles Wish Understanding Moral Behavior Tragedy Regard Valuable Noble Indifference Significance Sentiments Display Incapable Homosexual Gross Variation Orientation

Author:Emma Goldman

“Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.”

“The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall determine them. The first educational question will not be 'what knowledge is of the most worth?' but 'what kinds of human beings do we wish to produce?' The possibilities virtually defy our imagination.”

“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

“I demand that every Storm Troop Leader, just as every political leader, should be conscious of the fact that his behavior and conduct must be exemplary. . . . I wish every mother to give her son to The Party without fearing that he may be ruined morally. . . . Storm Troop Leaders who behave unworthily in public are to be mercilessly removed.”

Giving Should May Facts Political Mother Wish Party Leader Son Demand Behavior Conscious Storm Behave Ruined Political Leaders Exemplary

Author:Adolf Hitler

“My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.”

Want Mind Firsts Heart Body Action Wish Natural Simple Opinion Honest Speech Behavior Clean Truthful Mind Heart

Author:Ameen Rihani

“While no one wishes to incur losses, you couldn't prove it from an examination of the behavior of most investors and speculators. The speculative urge that lies within most of us is strong; the prospect of a free lunch can be compelling, especially when others have already seemingly partaken. It can be hard to concentrate on potential losses while others are greedily reaching for gains and your broker is on the phone offering shares in the latest "hot" initial public offering. Yet the avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome.”

“The single biggest barrier to effective leadership is, in my view, the leadership industry itself. Instead of telling people the skills and behaviors they need to be effective in getting things done, we tell them almost the opposite - blandishments about how we wish people would be, and how we wish workplaces were. That information is worse than useless as, to the extent people believe it, they often wind up losing their jobs.”

“A curious mind does not say to consumers "What do you want?" A curious mind understands context, understands behavior, understands spending and spending patterns - the accumulation of a day's purchases, or spending over a week or a year. A curious mind asks the questions that open up the consumer to talk about her latent dissatisfactions, hopes, wishes, and dreams.”

Want Years Mind Doe Dream Asks Wish Week Behavior Patterns Spending Curious Consumers Accumulation Dissatisfaction Latent

Book:Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth

Source: Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth

“At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure.”

Heart Wish Behavior Miracle Cures Misunderstanding Infantile

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”

Pain Form Joy Wish Kindness Behavior Hospitality Courteous Complexion

Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.”

Matter Hard Might Able Wish Behavior China

Author:Madeleine Albright

“Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.”

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not placed outside the law, but expressly targeted by it. Indeed, the Bill of Rights is little more than a description of the lines that the most powerful political officials are barred from crossing, even if they have the power to do so and even when the majority of citizens might wish them to do so.”

“When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying behavior is the result of antecedent causes which, if you follow them long enough, will take you beyond the moment of his birth, and therefore to events for which he cannot be held responsible by any stretch of imagination... When a motorcar fails to start, we do not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, we do not say, you are a wicked motorcar, and you shall not have any more gasoline until you go.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Long Enough Moments Facts Faces Wish Causes Imagination Sin Results Failing Events Birth Behavior Responsible Refuse Wicked Free Will Attributes Annoying Gasoline

Author:Bertrand Russell