People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover,… — John Frederick Demartini Copy Share Image
When J.J. [Abrams] called Lisa [Joy] and myself, he pitched us this idea of, what if we turn the structure around and… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was… — John Hamill Copy Share Image
I'm interested in history because it's a discipline that requires a lot of effort from the imagination. You need to put in… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“In the light of what we have recently learned about animal behavior in general, and human behavior in particular, it has become… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We humans are in such a strange position—we are still animals whose behavior reflects that of our ancestors, yet we are unique—unlike… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The basic premise of taste, as Stephen Bayley, the cultural critic, said, is that taste is that which does not alienate your… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
It's time to sort of get back to a basic message, the message that was given. At this time, the world has… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
That's why every society on the planet has very definite rules, ideas about how sex should be regulated, how sex should be… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
After all, despite the scandalous behavior of one and, by the way, the other candidate [they are both , Donald Trump and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
“To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counterintuitive theories ever recorded… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value"… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The soul journey inward is when we are invited to cast aside beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve us and release… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
Whoever is full of wisdom is naturally compassionate; in fact we recognize that someone has gained spiritual wisdom by seeing their compassionate… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
Dogs seek attention from you. But by paying them that attention when they want it, you're reinforcing the bad or hyperactive or… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
“Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Peter denied Jesus; Judas betrayed Jesus. The bad news was that both of them fell off the track and were both filled… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall… — John Goodlad Copy Share Image
Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
My rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) was one of the very few therapies that was originated partly or largely because I wanted… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
For a very long time, people have been saying to me, "What if you want to do this approach with every kid?"… — Ross W. Greene Copy Share Image
This is an effort to have government coerce, force speech and behavior. And it's being pushed and advocated by the gay community.… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
I look at Willow and she's so naughty and fiery, and I'm not going to take any of her fierceness personally -… — Pink Copy Share Image