“An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.” PeopleIfsNeedsMayIdeasPlayMovingAudienceWeekBehaviorPerceptionProducersMainstreamMasterpieceFringePromoters Author:David Bornstein
“What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.” PeopleSelfBehaviorPerceptionPreservesJustifySelf Perception Author:Christopher Golden
“The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely, they express the laws of mechanics for such systems as they appear to beings who have not the fineness of perception to enable them to appreciate quantities of the order of magnitude of those which relate to single particles, and who cannot repeat their experiments often enough to obtain any but the most probable results.” EnoughLawOrderResultsNumbersBehaviorPerceptionAppreciateDeterminedExperimentsRelateRepeatsQuantityMechanicParticlesMagnitudeThermodynamics Author:J. Willard Gibbs
“The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior.” MayImportantForceLossLimitsBehaviorPerceptionSurvivalGainsThreatProfitDrivingDriving ForceProfit Maximization Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“There are cells in the brain that respond to faces. This is one of the reasons that I deal with portraiture. We can learn a lot about our perception of facial expression from the behavior of these cells.” ReasonFacesDealsBrainExpressionBehaviorPerceptionCellsFacialPortraitureFacial Expression Author:Eric Kandel
“Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.” GivenProcessMistakeIgnoranceBehaviorPerceptionGreedReplacedGiven Up Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“The amygdala, along with related areas..., plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially sensitive to social interactions.” PlaySocialMemoriesRolesBehaviorPerceptionAreasSensitiveRelatedRegionsCrucialInteractionSocial InteractionCoordinating Book:The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are Source: The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
“Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects.” ThinkingStoriesEffectsBehaviorPerceptionLabelsBiasEvaluate Author:Michael J Cohen
“Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.” EnergyAttitudeWatchesReadyBehaviorPerceptionApproachMeetingsContributionHigh Energy Author:Jack Welch
“We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.” HumansIdeasSelfMatterFeelingsEasyAnimalMistakeFitBehaviorPerceptionConsciousNo IdeaAppropriateBeing HumanCriteriaSelf ConsciousInappropriateLizardsRevulsion Author:Douglas Adams
“Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.” AmericaLeftBlackWhiteBehaviorPerceptionMajorityTensionFalsehoodLeftistsAnimosityLibelRacial Tension Author:Dennis Prager
“Behaviors and lifestyles that are classified as "normal" rarely get so generalized, public perception of heterosexual relationships, for instance, or of the "white" experience, allow for the infinite variety of experiences that exist under such headings, but people love to reduce the vastness of individuality and subjectivity within marginalized types of experience.” PeopleWhiteTypeBehaviorNormalPerceptionInfiniteIndividualityLifestyleInstanceVarietyHeadingsSubjectivityVastnessMarginalized Author:Melissa Febos
“This is the hallmark of a robust biological system: political parties can perish in a tragic accident and the society will still run, sometimes with little more than a hiccup to the system. It may be that for every strange clinical case in which brain damage leads to a bizarre change in behavior or perception, there are hundreds of cases in which parts of the brain are damaged with no detectable clinical sign.” MayLittlesStillsSometimesRunningPoliticalPartyBrainCasesStrangeBehaviorPerceptionAccidentsDamageTragicBizarrePolitical PartiesRobustHallmarkClinicalsHiccupsTragic Accidents Author:David Eagleman
“The themes that run through all my work are that consciousness is the ultimate reality; and that by understanding consciousness, you understand everything about yourself, about perception, about creativity, about behavior, about relationships. By understanding consciousness, you have the ability to create anything in your world. And you have the ability to influence also the collective consciousness to not only bring about personal healing, but social transformation, and ultimately healing our planet, which happens to be extremely wounded.” WorldRealityRunningUnderstandingAbilityHealingConsciousnessCreativityInfluenceBehaviorPerceptionUltimateTransformationAbout Yourself Author:Deepak Chopra
“Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology.” PeopleMenHumansFeelingsSeemsFormTurnsEvilIndividualNationsTermDesignCommunicationBehaviorPerceptionCapacityRelationInternationalEducationalIdeologyRelatedMotiveAbstractDecentAdversariesVaryInternational RelationsContributingEmbodimentBarbarismPerception Of Others Author:J. William Fulbright
“Our self-perception determines our behavior. If we think we’re small, limited, inadequate creatures, then we tend to behave that way, and the energy we radiate reflects those thoughts no matter what we do. If we think we’re magnificent creatures with an infinite abundance of love and power to give, then we tend to behave that way. Once again, the energy around us reflects our state of awareness.” IfsThinkingWayGivingSelfMatterStatesEnergyAwarenessCreaturesBehaviorPerceptionInfiniteNo Matter WhatDetermineBehaveAbundanceMagnificentInadequateSelf PerceptionAbundance Of Love Author:Marianne Williamson
“The issue Fodor writes about is central to the psychology of perception, cognition, and action. It is the central issue for anyone who would seriously study the neurobiology of behavior: Is the mind organized horizontally or vertically or both, and what are the consequences to psychology of proceeding on one assumption or the other? This has been little analyzed and written about. Jerry Fodor has repaired that omission and had done it brilliantly.” WritingMindLittlesHas BeensDoneActionStudyIssuesPsychologyWrittenBehaviorPerceptionConsequenceAssumptionOrganizedJerryCognitionProceedingOmissionNeurobiology Author:Alvin Liberman
“A renaissance in cellular biology has recently revealed the molecular mechanisms by which thoughts and perceptions directly influence gene activity and cell behavior...Energy psychology, through its ability to rapidly identify and reprogram limiting misconceptions, represents the most powerful and effective process to enhance physical and emotional well being.” WellsEnergyProcessAbilityPowerfulPsychologyInfluenceEmotionalActivityBehaviorPerceptionCellsWell BeingBiologyMost PowerfulMechanismGenesRenaissanceMisconceptionCellularEmotional Well Being Author:Bruce H. Lipton