It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I wasn't a bad kid. I was a good kid. But I had gotten in a lot of fights 'cause in the… — Tony Danza Copy Share Image
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
What is reflected in the way this behavior is happening - in the way that minorities are treated, and the way that… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
Suspensions convey the critical message to students and parents that certain behavior is inconsistent with being a member of the school community.… — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
It is difficult for Iranian scholars and universities to retain their independence and to be seen as doing so, when cultural warfare… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
The very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one you need to let go of the most. Forgiveness means… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
To me, real comedy comes out of behavior. It's the choices you make as an actor. It's never about, "I want to… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I think Berry Gordy is a genius, I really do, and it's not a word I throw around lightly. But with all… — Suzanne de Passe Copy Share Image
I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do… — Elizabeth Mitchell Copy Share Image
Anyone who ever studied mankind by listening to them was self-deluded. The first thing they should have done was to answer the… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If we studied human beings which can include human genes, human blood samples, and human behavior, then you can leave the animals… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
This is a horrid generalization, so I'll probably get hate mail from stockbrokers. I would have been forced to get back to… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
As a young woman, I can say that sexist behavior so often perpetrated by the Left is a major reason why I… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
There is a difference between legitimate issues of character - someone's behavior - and the issue of whether someone who has done… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Influence others with your good behavior and actions, who you think you are; are the message and it speak louder than what… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color,… — James Lankford Copy Share Image
The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds… — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
There are some that are - REM Behavior Disorder, we'll see some court documented cases. And they really need to have a… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
If you stand to lose a job or friends if certain aspects of your behavior were brought to light, then it's probably… — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
The ultimate lesson from my entire experience is you cannot prejudge human beings. You just can't. I don't care who they are,… — Nadya Suleman Copy Share Image
It's important to recognize your own self-destructive behavior and be honest about it. You're only hurting yourself or losing out on your… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
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