“[G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and overt behavior. Predisposition via a long chain of complex chemical reactions, mediated through a more complex series of life's circumstances, does not equal identification or even causation.” LongDoeProcessCircumstancesEqualBehaviorSeriesComplexesRateSeekingReactionsChainsChemicalsGenesNoveltyIdentificationCausationChemical ReactionsEnzymes Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.” Has BeensVirtueCircumstancesBehaviorAssumingVicesComplexityQuartersDisguiseRecognizingLiableAmbiguousCondemningOutspoken Book:In Search of Lost Time: Swann's way Source: In Search of Lost Time: Swann's way
“It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.” CharacterMotherMoralCircumstancesMoralityBehaviorDaughterCommentVirtuousSevereNotableMoral Character Author:Antoine Rivarol
“Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one's existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. ... The "metaphysical need," ... both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a historical phenomenon that arises under determinate circumstances, and could be expected to disappear under other circumstances that we could relatively easily envisage.” WorldNeedsExistencePrinciplesTheoryCircumstancesBehaviorElementsHistoricalWestDisappearExpectedAriseFixedPhenomenonMetaphysicalOrientationMeaningfulness Author:Raymond Geuss
“In short-to overstate the point only slightly-because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else's, and in many circumstances actually less so.” PeopleKnowsGivingCircumstancesBehaviorExplanation Author:Kwame
“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.” ThinkingWayFirstsWellsChildrenStillsYoungMotherFatherSexParentSpecialBabyCircumstancesBehaviorEvidenceGenderOverwhelmingRepresentativesPsychologistSimilarityYoung ChildrenEmergenceMother And FatherHangoverSummaryGood ParentLike A MotherHighlighting Author:Sandra Scarr
“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.” ThinkingMindOrderPeaceUnderstandingNaturalHealingCircumstancesBehaviorEssenceResponseGreedDelusionSensiblePreciseBenevolent Author:Sylvia Boorstein
“Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities” SelfDealsSituationCircumstancesEasierBehaviorPerformancesIllAriseDefinedAppropriateYieldJudgedAssessmentActualityEfficacyDisparityDefectiveSelf EfficacyPerceived Self Author:Albert Bandura
“Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from one moment to the next. We possess multiple selves that are aroused by different circumstances.” PeopleTryingDifferentSelfSometimesMomentsLawNextCircumstancesBehaviorMultipleEconomistPredictability Author:David Brooks
“'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.” ThinkingMenHumansDifferentTodayPracticeCircumstancesBehaviorManagementFoundationInvestmentCrowdsBrilliantFoolishTendenciesFollyInvestorsLemmingsInvestment Management Author:Charlie Munger
“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.” FeelsWellsIdeasSelfPersonalityCircumstancesBehaviorBuiltFoundationPatternsBehaveVibrationsPremisesPresent TimeDeviate Author:Maxwell Maltz
“It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed.” ChangedCircumstancesBehaviorParadox Author:Lewis Schiff
“One of the great things about the film being so unusual and provocative is the filmmaker to me doesn't seem to have a definite opinion on the rights or wrongs or the immorality of behaviors and systems, he just presents a set of very unusual circumstances and asked the audience to partake in the judging of what feels right or wrong or what feels natural and unnatural.” FeelsSeemsFilmNaturalOpinionAudienceRightsJudgingCircumstancesBehaviorGreat ThingsFilmmakerUnusualDefiniteUnnaturalProvocativeImmoralityFeels RightUnusual Circumstances Author:Colin Farrell
“We need to lay hold on the feelings and try to control them to keep us from getting into a circumstance that leads to sinful behavior.” NeedsTryingFeelingsCircumstancesBehaviorLays Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“We should remember that none of us is perfect and none of us has children whose behavior is entirely in accord with exactly what we would have them do in all circumstances.” ShouldChildrenRememberPerfectCircumstancesBehaviorAccord Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They sometimes develop positive participatory schemes, sometimes not. We know from the studies of worker-owned plywood companies in the US, they can tend to develop conservative attitudes, not socialist attitudes. So even though I'm an advocate of further democratization of the workplace, we also need to be building larger structures.” KnowsNeedsSometimesAttitudeCompanyStudyBuildingCircumstancesBehaviorStructureWorkersConservativeCapitalistSchemesSocialistWorkplaceFloatingReplicateDemocratization Author:Gar Alperovitz
“When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't do anything, then there is no point to worry. So in either case, worrying is an added suffering. But this does not mean of course that we should not be unhappy about injustice, abuse and other kinds of behavior that brings suffering upon others.” IfsNeedsShouldKindMeanDoeSufferingCoursesCan DoCasesWorryCircumstancesBehaviorAbuseInjusticeUnhappyNo PointCan Do SomethingAdverse Author:Matthieu Ricard
“We are not buried in history, but surrounded by it. You can't avoid our behavior being shaped by it, to a considerable degree. We have this fantasy that we are free of history. This allows us not to see the circumstances, the historical circumstances of other people.” PeopleFantasyCircumstancesBehaviorHistorical Author:Russell Banks
“Happiness is about what happens to you; and, to an extent, it's dependent on your circumstances, your behaviors, and your attitudes. But the joy of Christ is much, much bigger. The joy of Christ is about relationship with a person. It's something you have access to, but it's also something you must choose. Christian joy shows up not only in the happy times but also in times of trial and discouragement.” ChristianJoyChristAttitudeCircumstancesBehaviorDiscouragement Author:David Jeremiah
“Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister. No matter how new the face or how different the dress and behavior, there is no significant division between us and other people. It is foolish to dwell on external differences, because our basic natures are the same.” PeopleInspirationalNeedsFeelsDifferentMatterFacesDifferencesShareBrotherCircumstancesBehaviorDressesFoolishSignificantBuddhistDivisionIdentical Book:The Compassionate Life Source: The Compassionate Life
“There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.” HumansBrokenCircumstancesBehaviorHuman BehaviorSpectacularMundane Book:River of Gods Source: River of Gods