A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in… — Nancy Chodorow Copy Share Image
It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
One of the great sophistries of our age, I think, is that merely because one has an inclination to do something, that… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I don't feel any pressure to joke about #MeToo - in fact, I'd say you shouldn't, because it's a great movement that… — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
I do feel it's crucial that women's opinions be taken equally with men's. But still'I have not been accepted by the American… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The government ought to help out, because the average citizen can't go out and be doing reviews of the scientific literature. And… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
“It is in the home that our behavior is most significant. It is the place where our actions have the greatest impact,… — Wayne S. Peterson Copy Share Image
There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Genes have plenty to do with behavior. Even more appropriately, all behavioral traits are affected to some degree by genetic variability.65 They… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Prozac makes you feel better by disabling those crippling doubts and inhibitions that are the hallmarks of despondency, but it often does… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
You've got to have a vision and an intention and that will guide what you do. I call it devotion. Ask yourself,… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“The attitude you pose is greatly influenced by the links of friendships you bookmark. Good friends, good attitudes; best friends, best attitudes.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Anything that can create balance in dogs is great. If veterinarians can give you the solution and give you why this is… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
The Clintons represent the highest level of corruption, but no one has the courage to mention it. Instead they talk about Rudy… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
Most economists, when modeling market behavior, tend to sweep major fluctuations under the rug and assume they are anomalies. What I have… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
In my mind, there's nothing wrong with it. I don't instinctively know what's wrong with it. There is a language of the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We are all capable of so much more than the narrow confines of our regular behavior and our personality. So it's interesting… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
“For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land… — Bruce-Novoa Copy Share Image
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else.… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why… — Leslye Headland Copy Share Image
“Many theories of behavior pivot around a particular human tendency: We’re keen responders to positive and negative reinforcements, or zippy calculators of… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
