After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“In ethics [Aristotle] had two bright ideas. First, that extreme behavior of selfishness and self-sacrifice don't work for most people; look for… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did,… — Roma Tearne Copy Share Image
The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
Global climate change is real and we have a limited time to change our behavior or live with the consequences. We can… — Kyra Sedgwick Copy Share Image
It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
We no longer have the public spheres available to be able to contest that violence. We don't see it in the mainstream… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“You and I cannot control or change anyone else but ourselves. How other people choose to behave is a reflection on them.… — Regina Cates Copy Share Image
“A general principle of human behavior is that it’s easier for us to see something negative in other people than in ourselves.… — Gary Small Copy Share Image
If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The distinction between feelings or inclinations on the one hand, and behavior on the other hand, is very clear. It's no sin… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.' And, it was Albert Einstein… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
I think the Russian government is right to be concerned with propaganda on teenagers who are at the age of struggling through… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader,… — Konosuke Matsushita Copy Share Image
“Despite what you might think, NORMAL people do NOT cause problems, misfortunes, conflicts, distress or accidents. And when they do, they CAN… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
If you manage a team of 10 people, its quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors. If… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The easiest way to make something cool is to get cool people to do it. Part of this might mean the president… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
If the president Donald Trump had connected the Jerusalem question to some other positions, linking it to Israeli and Palestinian behavior or… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
which is completely out-of-line behavior. Then you are wholly within your rights to stomp on their foot." "No," Delia said, over her… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“The theory of behavior is useful to the life of man only as the index is useful to him who goes through… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Surrendered people enjoy life, relish their personal development, and value their friends. They may have an exceptionally good career and be wealthy,… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To say that it is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility. However, we may not have polluted the air,… — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
Every moment away from you feels like time spent in a sort of cell. I can think of nothing, dream of nothing,… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Love is a way of seeing and a way of being that honors God in everyone we meet. And it changes us… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Your antivictimization stance will involve a great deal more than simply memorizing some assertive techniques and then taking a few risks when… — Wayne W. Dyer Copy Share Image
How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard,… — William Schutz Copy Share Image