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“Looking at voter behavior over the years I'm always interested to see and impressed to see how voters eventually find the key issues that matter to them to cast their vote.”

Years Matter Issues Keys Behavior Vote Casts Voters Impressed

Author:Steven J. Law

“Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.”

Feels Years May Mean Shows Feelings Action Faces Fiction Novel Behavior Our Actions New Experiences Initiate

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.”

Years May Problem Environment Evolution Behavior Billions

Author:W. Richard Stevens

“We started off with physical evolution and got our form. Then we somehow developed language, which meant cultural evolution could race so we could change our behavior really quickly instead of over hundreds and hundreds of years. And then comes moral evolution, which means we're not frightfully far along with people. And maybe we end up with a spiritual evolution, which is this connectedness with the rest of the life forms on the planet.”

People Years Mean Ends Spiritual Form Language Race Moral Planets Evolution Behavior Connectedness Spiritual Evolution

Author:Jane Goodall

“Five hundred thousand Americans die from tobacco poisoning every year, and it's legal. I don't know, it just that's the - you can't stop giving people organs because of bad behavior. If you keep on having bad behavior, then of course they'll deny you a liver, or whatever you need.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Giving Years Dies Courses Five Thousand Behavior Hundred Deny Organs Tobacco Liver Poisoning Bad Behavior

Author:Larry Hagman

“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.”

“My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Lasts Mother Behavior Rational Last Year

Book:Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.”

Want Years Remember Young Hours Grew Behavior Grew Up Backgrounds Noise Touched Plates Carpet Spinning Autistic Yaks Background Noise Spinning Plates

Author:Temple Grandin

“Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourettes Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.”

“The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.”

Years Millions Sea Evolution Behavior Species Fishes Speed Defense Mechanism Prey Sharks Predator Camouflage Defense Mechanisms Apex Apex Predators

Author:Paul Watson

“Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)”

People Years Two Stage Objects Behavior Urges Two Years Anarchy Compulsion Primal Two Year Olds Tics Tourettes

Book:Vintage Sacks

Source: Vintage Sacks

“If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.”

Ifs Years Humanity Race Responsibility Environment Achieve Planets Type Behavior Decades Sustainability Taking Responsibility Shifting Our Planet Triggers Our Environment

Author:Yehuda Berg

“You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed and all of that sort of thing, their behavior can lead to bubbles. And it may have had and Internet bubble at one time, you've had a farm bubble, farmland bubble in the Midwest which resulted in all kinds of tragedy in the early '80s.”

Years Humans Kind May Human Beings Internet Behavior Years Ago Tragedy Greed All Kinds Combination Farms One Time Bubbles 80s Bulbs Holland Midwest Farmland

Author:Howard Warren Buffett

“Sexually-transmitted diseases is caused by sexual activity and promiscuity it spreads diseases. That's been known, you know, about 400 or 500 years, that somehow these diseases are spread. If fault comes with people because of their personal behavior but it isn't to be placed on a burden on other people, innocent people, why should they have to pay for the consequences?”

People Ifs Knows Should Years Pay Known Activity Disease Behavior Consequence Faults Burden Spread Innocent Sexually Promiscuity Sexually Transmitted Diseases Personal Behavior

Author:Ron Paul

“This is serious, if Martha gets the maximum sentence on all counts, she could serve 20 years in prison. Of course, you have to take off time off for good behavior, which means 20 years in prison.”

Ifs Years Mean Courses Serious Behavior Prison Sentences Maximum Time Off Good Behavior

Author:Conan O'Brien

“...how little our side of the industry did to move its business to the more ethical firms and to make a fuss about conflicted or unethical behavior. Had a number of us moved our business, we might have slowed or even stopped the 30-year slide in conflicted, unethical behavior that we have experienced. I, for one, regret the modest nature of our moves. We all could have done more. We have tolerated a pretty nasty decline in standards. Shame on us.”

Years Littles Done Might Moving Sides Numbers Regret Industry Behavior Standards Shame Moved Firm Ethical Decline Nasty Modest Slides Unethical

Author:Jeremy Grantham

“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'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of those lies? But actually maybe I also recognize that in turning empathy into a practice for many years, by turning, by forcing myself to separate at some level the humanity of a human being from his or her actions and recognizing that sometimes, even the moral aspects of a human being can contribute to immoral behavior.”

Trying Years Humans Sometimes Done Action Lying Humanity Human Beings Levels Moral Practice Behavior Empathy Consequence Aspect Justify Recognizing Immoral

Author:Joshua Oppenheimer

“American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world.”

World Years Has Beens Country Sometimes Behavior Consequence Negative Patterns Around The World Other Countries American Society Imitating Behavior Patterns

Author:Thomas Sowell

“A few public hangings will really change behavior. One of our Presidents said if he could execute three people each year for no cause, it would make it a lot easier to govern. When someone said that's not enough, he said, "Oh yes it is, because I'd publish the list of people under consideration."”

People Ifs Years Said Enough Three Causes President Easier Behavior Lists Consideration Publish

Author:Charlie Munger

“We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.”

“For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize this pattern as being addiction. My addictive thinking and behavior became the bars of my cell. Denying feeling empty inside, I constantly looked for new things to acquire, people to be around, substances to take, and new goals to achieve in order to feel better about myself. Over the last four decades I have focused on healing my addictive mind and helping others do the same.”

“I've been in China enough to know that you shouldn't opine on it unless you speak Chinese and have lived there for twenty years. I wasn't pretending to be a China expert in that final chapter. I was just pointing, first to the parallels between Chinese behavior toward us and ours toward GB when we were at the same stage of development, and secondly to how much harder their development path is than ours was.”

Knows Years Firsts Enough Speak Path Stage Development Behavior Harder Twenties Finals China Chinese Experts Pretending Chapters Pointing Parallels Stages Of Development

Author:Charles R. Morris

“When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you've spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you're now trying to change, you've got to expect it's going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.”

Ifs Trying Years Remember Results Effort Habit Behavior Twenties Patient Starting Thirty Forty Lasting Take Time Be Patient Trying To Change Old Habits

Author:Darren Hardy

“It's impossible for minorities, impossible for people of color to be ever guilty of hate crimes. Because their only crimes are justified. Their crimes are justifiable. It’s retribution and payback for years and decades and maybe even centuries of oppressive behavior at the hands of the white majority.”

People Years Hands Hate White Impossible Century Crime Color Behavior Majority Decades Guilty Minorities Justified Hate Crime Retribution Payback

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for being abused in such a horrific way. I lost it a lot of times watching that film, particularly when seeing the grace of the man when he finally makes it back home aged, changed, forever brutalized, and yet he apologizes to his family for his long absence. That was such a profoundly moving moment capturing the triumph of dignity over the disgraceful behavior of those involved in the slave trade.”

“When I think about 1999, I think about being a 19-year-old kid, and I think about my attitude and behavior just toward women with respect objectifying them.”

Thinking Years Kids Attitude Behavior My Attitude Objectifying

Author:Nate Parker

“What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart.”

“Even in my town, even in San Francisco, thousands of gay men were arrested usually using entrapment techniques every single year for sexual behavior between consenting adults. That continued well into the 1970s until it was finally decriminalized in 1976, I believe.”

Men Years Believe Wells I Believe Gay Behavior Adults Towns Technique San Francisco Arrested Gay Men Entrapment

Author:Cleve Jones

“I'm not sure [Donald] Trump has had that distinction between private and public life in his head. And so, I think there's likely to be an erosion of just that standard, that different standard, consciousness, and I think it's likely we'll see what we haven't seen in the last eight years and even the last 12 or 16 of private enrichment in office and scandals where people have to resign and things like that, because just once the standards go, behavior tends to go.”

People Thinking Years Different Lasts Consciousness Havens Trump Office Behavior Standards Eight Not Sure Distinction Scandal Public Life Erosion Enrichment

Author:David Brooks

“In light of Trump's irresponsible behavior, even Putin may decide that it was time to recalculate Russian interests. This could happen quite quickly if Trump goes ahead and wrecks one of the few potentially stabilizing developments in the Middle East during the last several years. Similarly, if Israel joins NATO, this might be more than Putin is willing to swallow.”

Ifs Years May Light Might Happens Lasts Interest Middle Willing Development Trump Behavior Israel East Middle East Putin Irresponsible Wrecks Nato

Author:Richard A. Falk

“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

“The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.”

Years Firsts Children Important Development Behavior Earning

Author:Shakira

“The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where the differences in the brain are going to just be a personality variant and, like, for very mild Asperger's. But you get into more severe kinds of autism where there's obvious speech delay, obvious abnormal behavior in a two and three-year-old child, you know, the initial neurology is different from case to case. But all children with autism are going to do better if they get really good educational intervention.”

“One thing I'd like to just keep on doing is I want to educate people about animal behavior and about autism. I've been doing autism talks for the last 20 years and there still are people out there that do not want to, they can't recognize that these sensory problems are real. That, for some of these kids when that fire alarm goes off, that really hurts the ears, it's a really real thing.”

People Want Years Stills Real Problem Kids Lasts Hurt Animal Fire One Thing Behavior Ears Educate Autism Alarms Real Things Sensory Animal Behavior

Author:Temple Grandin

“My own opinion is that the suburban project is over. We are done. We don't know it yet. For about five years or so the people who deliver all that crap - developers, realtors, various money people - have kicked back waiting for the system to get going again, to resume all their accustomed behavior. They wait in vain. They just haven't figured out that we face a new disposition of things.”

People Knows Years Done Faces Waiting My Own Opinion Five Havens Behavior Projects Various Vain Five Years Crap Disposition Accustomed Resumes Developers Realtors

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.”

Years Wells Behavior Addiction Convinced Destructive Insecurity Rooted Destructive Behavior

Book:So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

Source: So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

“The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.”

Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

“Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.”

Years Millions Media New York Behavior Spots Clans Bad Behavior Ted Kennedy

Author:Camille Paglia

“Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly.”

People Years Kind Past Common Economy Car Demand Taxes Behavior Standards Raises Method Oil Thirty Fuel Gas Reducing Thirty Years Over The Past Gasoline Fuel Economy

Author:James Surowiecki

“Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.”

People Years Humans Long Has Beens Two Talking Changed Activity Behavior Filled Ancient Each Day Amazed Human Behavior Homo Sapiens Downtown Physical Things Tucson

Author:Andrew Weil

“We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes and on the faces of those who have lived many years.”

Years Believe Eye Faces Results Behavior Behave Evident

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.”

Years Young Parent Crime Behavior Prison Committed Sentences Time Off Good Behavior

Author:Orson Scott Card

“One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.”

Should Years Two Behavior Shots Statesmen Scoundrels Good Behavior

Book:Waverley Novels

Source: Waverley Novels

“There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.”

People Knows Want Years Kind Persons Made Done Stuff Listening Behavior Made It Invites Obsessive

Author:David Byrne

“A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.”

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.”

“In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor of the mind, like those in a medieval dungeon floor - the stinking oubliettes, named for forgetting, bottle-shaped cells in solid rock with the trapdoor in the top. Nothing escapes from them quietly to ease us. A quake, some betrayal by our safeguards, and sparks of memory fire the noxious gases - things trapped for years fly free, ready to explode in pain and drive us to dangerous behavior.”

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