Behavior Quotes - Page 17

• The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is its ability to change their behavior in the ordinary round of daily life. Judged by that test, I know no religion that has a moral claim upon the allegiance of men.

  Harold Laski

  Men, Tests, Ordinary

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• 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.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mistake, Ignorance, Greed

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• Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself.

  Robert P. George

  America, Grandfather, Dawn

  Robert P. George (2016). “Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism”, p.78, Open Road Media

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• Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

  Sean Connery

  Phrases, Excuse, Used

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• We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.

  B. F. Skinner

  Mutation, Reinforcement, Natural

  B.F Skinner (1965). “Science And Human Behavior”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• One of many challenges is of course to create a legal basis for copyright issues that's up to date with both modern distribution, consumer behavior and the rights and needs of creators and copyright holders.

  Lisa Langseth

  Rights, Issues, Challenges

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. Just to answer the question why does not say I'm validating behavior. I'm just saying, if we're going to be a student of human behavior, be a true student.

  Wendell Pierce

  Mad, Trying, Abhorrent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always a study of human behavior because if we just demonize it, it becomes unreal.

  Wendell Pierce

  Study, Accepting, Should

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Although homosexual behavior is very common in the animal world, it seems to be very uncommon that individual animals have a long-lasting predisposition to engage in such behavior to the exclusion of heterosexual activities. Thus, a homosexual orientation, if one can speak of such thing in animals, seems to be a rarity.

  Simon LeVay

  Animal, Long, World

  Simon LeVay (1996). “Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research Into Homosexuality”, p.207, MIT Press

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• The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that youll have little in the future.

  Sendhil Mullainathan

  People, Scarcity, Littles

  "Being poor changes your thinking about everything". Interview with Harold Pollack, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.

  Nir Eyal

  Thinking, Next, Action

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.30, Penguin

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• Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it.

  Nir Eyal

  Motivation, Two, Ease

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.9, Penguin

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• There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex is only about sex in snakes, or sex in egg-laying reptiles. Although a biologist's job in part is to interpret what organisms do in a broader context, that context does not, and should not, need to include a lesson for human beings. This is true regardless of whether the lesson is something we would like to teach, which means that using animals as vehicles for nonsexist thinking is just as out of bounds as using them to keep women barefoot and pregnant.

  Marlene Zuk

  Sex, Jobs, Mean

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• Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events.

  Jo Beverley

  Memories, People, Doubt

  Jo Beverley (2005). “A Most Unsuitable Man”, p.23, Penguin

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• 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.

  Jack Welch

  Attitude, Perception, Energy

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• One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Creativity, Excellence, Domain

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• Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial place in the culture. For obvious reasons, the culture cannot endorse this behavior, even as it is in thrall to it.

  Luc Sante

  Self, Criminals, Essentials

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself.

  Luc Sante

  Requirements, Emotion, Source

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm of the old-fashioned opinion that shame can be used for all sorts of good in society. An example of this is smoking: When someone lights up around a crowd, people now usually say something. So I don't understand why it's not OK to apply the same logic to other behaviors.

  Keli Goff

  Light, People, Smoking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The thing that has always interested me in the kinds of shows that I do have more to do with the consequences of behavior than the behavior itself. Pulling a trigger and shooting somebody, or dismembering somebody.

  Steven Bochco

  Shooting, Kind, Triggers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way to redefine affirmative action. I grew up with poor white people in West Virginia, and I know there's a culture of poverty. I know that I've seen white people perform exactly the same pathological forms of behavior as Black people do when they're systematically deprived, whether it's getting pregnant, doing drugs, dropping out of school, whatever we're talking about. I think that we should have affirmative action for poor white people too.

  Henry Louis Gates

  School, Thinking, Virginia

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• From Ukraine to Syria, he [Vladimir Putin] is behaving like the world's new general and celebrating victories, while the American president sits on the sidelines and Europe sleeps. The West's behavior toward Putin is political and moral capitulation.

  Garry Kasparov

  Sleep, Ukraine, Europe

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

  Pam Grier

  Hate, Generations, Counseling

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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• Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.

  Pam Grier

  Girl, Healing, Boys

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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