Behavior Quotes - Page 21

• There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Half, May, Morality

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• Netflix will know everything. Netflix will know when a person stops watching it. They have all of their algorithms and will know that this person watched five minutes of a show and then stopped. They can tell by the behavior and the time of day that they are going to come back to it, based on their history.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Netflix, Algorithms, Minutes

  Source: collider.com

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• I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapped up in different hair and wardrobe and eras, and different period behavior, than it is to play closer to the present.

  Scott Bakula

  Hair, Play, Different

  "Scott Bakula Talks Behind The Candelabra, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, Basmati Blues, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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• Wall Street can be a dangerous place for investors. You have no choice but to do business there, but you must always be on your guard. The standard behavior of Wall Streeters is to pursue maximization of self-interest; the orientation is usually short term. This must be acknowledged, accepted, and dealt with. If you transact business with Wall Street with these caveats in mind, you can prosper. If you depend on Wall Street to help you, investment success may remain elusive.

  Seth Klarman

  Wall, Investment Success, Self

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• 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."

  Charlie Munger

  Years, People, President

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• The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of you once learned as gospel from your mistaken professors of yore. Your mistaken professors were too much influenced by "rational man" models of human behavior from economics and too little by "foolish man" models from psychology and real-world experience.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Men, Foolish Man

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• Well in the history of the See's Candy Company they always say, "I never did it before, and I'm never going to do it again." And we cashier them. It would be evil not to, because terrible behavior spreads.

  Charlie Munger

  Evil, Would Be, Cashiers

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• I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

  Bill Cosby

  Teacher, Children, School

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• Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in spite of some behavior that defies common sense.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Successful, Common Sense, Spite

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.26, Profile Books

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• Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

  Peter Drucker

  Decision, Tests, Causes

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.89, Routledge

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• Israel's [as well as our] enjoyment of the land is contingent on their behavior. Blessings or cruses lie before them; the choice is theirs.

  Max Anders

  Lying, Blessing, Israel

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• Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.

  Frank Turek

  Trying, Facts, Fit

  Frank Turek (2014). “Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case”, p.270, NavPress

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• Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gratitude, Generosity, Guilt

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• Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

  James Cook

  Cheating, Lying, Integrity

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• Modern 'public health' initiatives have moved well beyond what could reasonably be classified as public goods. Today, government undertakes all sorts of policies in the name of public health that are aimed at regulating personal behavior.

  Radley Balko

  Government, Names, Today

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• When deciding what to do next, we can always ask: Does this thought, emotion, or behavior bring me closer to or take me further away from my center?

  Stephen Gilligan

  Doe, Deciding What To Do, Next

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• To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

  Bill Crawford

  Self, Decision, Our Thoughts

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• 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.

  Donald A. Norman

  Reading, Believe, Writing

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• Dance therapy provides an outlet for energy and a safe and playful environment in which many areas of conflict can be identified and worked through, and appropriate adult roles and behavior tried out.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Roles, Safe, Energy

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.200, Rowman Altamira

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• As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.

  H. M. Tomlinson

  Spring, Believe, Sea

  H.M. Tomlinson (1920). “The Sea And The Jungle”

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• Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Self, Long

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• In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.

  Terence McKenna

  Animal, Keys, Psychology

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• When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Realizing, Treats

  John C. Maxwell (2013). “Be A People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships”, p.130, David C Cook

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• Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

  Zig Ziglar

  Teaching, School, Home

  Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• All feelings are acceptable, but all behavior isn't.

  Mary Pipher

  Feelings, Acceptable

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