If I ever succumbed to the demon on my shoulder going, "You should get something special because you're famous," that is the… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment. I'm 23 years old and despite the successes I've had in… — Michael Phelps Copy Share Image
I would love to be a field biologist. I would love to do what Jane Goodall did, just totally immerse myself in… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
“We can achieve a sort of control under which the controlled, though they are following a code much more scrupulously than was… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
The energy you give off based on your beliefs... your emotions... your behavior... the vibrational frequency you give off is what determines… — Darryl Anka Copy Share Image
Wall Street can be a dangerous place for investors. You have no choice but to do business there, but you must always… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
My colleagues from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education are working on participatory public health initiatives in Michigan, and there… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live…… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Whether low-income people are dealing with access to veteran's benefits, or a protective order to guard against domestic violence, or a way… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
I think that 9/11 is a greater loss if we do not change our behavior in some way. I think that if… — Doug Davidson Copy Share Image
The biggest lesson I've learned from my children is to look in the mirror at myself, not at them. I've realized that… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Byrnes... was concerned about Russia's postwar behavior. Russian troops had moved into Hungary and Rumania, and Byrnes thought it would be very… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
A symptomatic example of the way in which violence has saturated everyday life can be seen in the increased acceptance of criminalizing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by… — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
I think you can blame certain police officers for certain behavior, you can blame certain departments for certain behavior, and power and… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
Unemployment is higher in Europe than in the United States and primarily concentrated in immigrant minority populations, so people are worried about… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
“Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their ‘beliefs.’ The reason is… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The themes that run through all my work are that consciousness is the ultimate reality; and that by understanding consciousness, you understand… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
In order to institute action, it is not sufficient that the individual man have unachieved ends that he would like to fulfill.… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
A lot of people think PMI is the genome project 2.0. No. This is about all the influences on disease - genetics… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Should or can there be a single standard of behavior for both sexes? Is there such a thing as a biologically rooted… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
A curious mind does not say to consumers "What do you want?" A curious mind understands context, understands behavior, understands spending and… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There's no solutions to prevent corruption because it's the same thing as putting soldiers in an occupation in a foreign territory -… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
If you go out and have unprotected sex with lots of people, that behavior puts you at risk. Similarly, violent behavior can… — Steven James Copy Share Image
I urge people not to think in terms of "solutions," but in terms of intelligent responses to the quandaries and predicaments that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
