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• Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

  Boethius

  Aggravation, Music Is, Degrade

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• Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

  Tim Robbins

  Real, Heart, People

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• I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.

  Michael Zaslow

  Play, Unmotivated, Want

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• Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Time, Powerful, Past

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• Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer

  Edward Thorndike

  Animal, Way, Conscious

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.23, Routledge

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• It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Nature, Communication, Views

  Paul Watzlawick, John H. Weakland, Richard Fisch (2011). “Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit and the way in which the material world is both celebrated and renewed through their work. The Jewish basis for the early Christian patterns of belief and behavior is clear. It is important that God's people are embodied, because God made this world and has no intention of abandoning it. The material of creation is a vessel made to be filled with God's new life and glory, even though the transformation may involve suffering, persecution, and martyrdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Jesus, People

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• Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.

  Steven Weber

  People, Fantasy, Happy Endings

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You should prepare to follow the program for 90 days. Why? Because behavioral research indicates that it takes 90 days to prepare for change, build a new behavior, become confident in the face of high-risk triggers, and move past the likelihood of relapse. Brain research also suggests that it takes a few months of practicing a new behavior to create permanent change.

  John C. Norcross

  Moving, Past, Risk

  John C. Norcross, Kristin Loberg, Jonathon Norcross (2013). “Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Goals and Resolutions”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Good behavior wins even an enemy.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Winning, Political

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• Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice . .

  Aristotle

  Art, Sacrifice, Men

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• Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted theory by which to understand the worth of stocks....investors have no model or at best a very incomplete model of behavior of prices, dividend, or earnings, of speculative assets.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Investing, Movement, Earning

  "Martket Volatility". Book by Robert J. Shiller, www.businessinsider.com. 1992.

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• Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.

  Andrew Lo

  Simple, Psychological Disorders, Law

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• [A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures that people experience the consequences of their own acts. Property sets up fences, but it also surrounds us with mirrors, reflecting back upon us the consequences of our own behavior.

  Tom Bethell

  Mirrors, Reflecting Back, People

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• In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

  Chris Argyris

  People, Facts, Management

  Chris Argyris (2010). “Organizational Traps: Leadership, Culture, Organizational Design”, p.10, OUP Oxford

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• Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Fighting, Men, Hair

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourettes Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.

  Tim Howard

  Kids, Years, Brain

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• Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Mean, Thinking, Class

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• The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.

  Paul Watson

  Sharks, Years, Sea

  "Sea Shepherd: How We Sank the Japanese Whaling Fleet". Interview with Deborah Bassett, www.theecologist.org. April 21, 2011.

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• I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Gay, Thinking

  "Rand Paul Appears In New Anti-Gay Documentary" By Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2015.

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• What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.

  Al Ries

  Leader, Important, Should

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• We will use the actions of others to decide on proper behavior for ourselves, especially when we view those others as similar to ourselves

  Robert Cialdini

  Views, Use, Action

  Robert B. Cialdini (1985). “Influence: Science and Practice”, Scott Foresman

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• I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone.

  Tiger Woods

  Doors, Perfect, Feelings

  Tiger Woods statement, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2009.

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