Behavior Quotes - Page 11

• We are ripples of consciousness of the vast ocean of consciousness. If we get agitated and become part of the reactionary and vitriolic behavior sometimes around us, we will only add to the disturbance.

  Deepak Chopra

  Ocean, Add, Sometimes

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN.com chat room, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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• One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. I am the architect of my destiny. You can`t blame other people for things that happened to you.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Responsibility, Destiny, People

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Karma, Confused, Destiny

  "Radiant Mind: Essential Buddhist Teachings and Texts". Book by Jean Smith, 1999.

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• By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

  Philip Yancey

  People, Missing, Strive

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.210, Harper Collins

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• Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

  Philip Yancey

  Attitude, Parent, Use Of Power

  Philip Yancey (2002). “Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?”, p.244, Zondervan

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• Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Thinking, Medicine, Stories

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• Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.

  Gary Becker

  Self, Assumption, Driven

  Gary Stanley Becker, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (1996). “The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture”, p.5, Hoover Press

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• If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members

  Francis Fukuyama

  Levels, Ethical, Members

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• People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, People, Personality

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• The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.

  Biz Stone

  Smart, Simple, People

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• And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

  Jane Goodall

  Noble, Way, Sophisticated

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• Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

  Dan Ariely

  Cheating, People, Cash

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• When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.

  Antonio Damasio

  Brain, Skins, Looks

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• In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.

  Elinor Ostrom

  Done, Limits, Investment

  Elinor Ostrom (2015). “Governing the Commons”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, Passion, Law

  Dennis Prager (2016). “A Dark Time in America”, p.8, Creators Publishing

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• That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Religious, Training, Moral

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• I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

  Craig Newmark

  Want, Normal, Moments

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• Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.

  Judith Martin

  Order, Missing, Logic

  Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibiting some other behavioral aberration. Of course, now we know that's just normal Aspergian behavior, but back then other people thought it was weird, so of course I did, too. One day, for some reason, she decided to try petting my arm, and I immediately stopped rocking and fidgeting. The result was so dramatic, she never stopped. It didn't take long for me to realize the calming effect, too. I like being petted and scratched. "Can you pet me?" I say when I sit next to her.

  John Elder Robison

  Feet, Calming Effect, Long

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• I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Medicine, Smoking, Important

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• The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

  James MacDonald

  Humanity, Problem, Sin

  Twitter post from Aug 04, 2016

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• I think The Room is something magnetic, a certain magnetism in The Room that is related to human behavior, and that's why people relate to it.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Thinking, People, Rooms

  "The Room's producer/writer/director/lead actor/short-range tuxedo footballer Tommy Wiseau". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 26, 2009.

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• Subliminal is about how we misinterpret our behavior because were unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Mind, Subliminal, Unconscious

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• Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture the hearts of people. And its all fraud; its all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if its proletariat behavior.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Country, Fall, Heart

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• Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Heart, Want

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