“While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act is enormously influenced by the culture in which we live. It also is clear that the major elements of modern culture-science, technology, law, music, and religion-have evolved over time in a quite concrete sense of the term. Mesoudi makes these arguments very well and his book is a very good read.” ThinkingWayWellsBookLawCultureIndividualSocialTermTechnologyClearModernElementsMajorsArgumentTreatsVery GoodAgentsConcreteSocial ScienceAutonomousModern CultureScience TechnologyGood Reads Author:Richard R. Nelson
“The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music. It's made me more likely to put things up quickly and treat it more like a magazine instead of a novel.” PeopleMadeIndividualBitsResultsNovelTreatsRateMagazinesConsumptionTurnover Author:Trent Reznor
“Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.” WayCertainValuesIndividualSocialMoralPrinciplesTreatsCharacteristicsOrganizedAppropriate Author:Erving Goffman
“If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” IfsInspirationalMotivationalLiteratureIndividualOughtTreats Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end.” PeopleWantNeedsEndsDreamIndividualExerciseFairsTreatsTyrannyFairnessUnfairness Author:Andrew Klavan
“The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics.” HumansDoneLightIndividualHuman BeingsInterestingBehindsHistoryRecordsSeaDevelopmentOppositesTreatsImportanceRelationMethodWaveDustHuman LifeStatisticsMassiveHistorianGreySurvivingSelectiveOverestimate Author:C. V. Wedgwood
“The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.” MadeProblemIndividualDifferencesGroupsTestsTreatsDisappearThrowingFeverThermometersIndividual DifferencesThrowing Away Book:Bias in Mental Testing Source: Bias in Mental Testing
“As far as horses go, people will ask about one breed versus another. I have to tell you, I really don't have any prejudice one way or another. I treat every horse at face value, how he/she is as an individual.” PeopleWayFacesValuesAsksIndividualTreatsHorsePrejudiceOne WayVersusFace Value Author:Buck Brannaman
“Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently and there are songs that are like scared birds that you have to sneak up on over the course of months in the woods.” WayWantCharacterSongCoursesIndividualMonthsBirdTreatsScaredWoodsTreatedSneak Author:Tom Waits