Behavior Quotes - Page 21

• The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God.

  Max Anders

  Giver, Demonstrating, Generous

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• God is always near His people, but their sinful behavior may cause His presence to be grievous.

  Max Anders

  People, May, Causes

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• Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Kindness, Grace, Doe

  Twitter post from Oct 25, 2014

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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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• The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior.

  James Cook

  People, Economic, Social

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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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• Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior.

  Dennis Prager

  Democrat, Irresponsible, Left

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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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• When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.

  Bill Crawford

  People, Want, Feels

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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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• The confidentiality of the judicial process would not matter greatly to an understanding and evaluation of the legal system if the consequences of judicial behavior could be readily determined. If you can determine the ripeness of a cantaloupe by squeezing or smelling it, you don't have to worry about the produce clerk's mental processes.

  Richard Posner

  Worry, Understanding, Clerks

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• I don't have too much interest in teaching other people how to get rich. And that isn't because I fear the competition or anything like that - Warrenhas always been very open about what he's learned, and I share that ethos. My personal behavior model is Lord Keynes: I wanted to get rich so I could be independent, and so I could do other things like give talks on the intersection of psychology and economics. I didn't want to turn it into a total obsession.

  Charlie Munger

  Teaching, Independent, Ethos

  Charlie Munger's speech on the psychology of human misjudgment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 1995.

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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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• To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Self, Design, Pay

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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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• We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

  Terence McKenna

  Needs, Social Behavior, Dilemma

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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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• Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Alcohol, Able

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

  Mary Pipher

  Feelings, Acceptable

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