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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement -… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world. They have… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior… — Sandra Cisneros 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Inside the mirrored elevator, Mulch used a telescopic pointer to push P for the penthouse. For the first few months he had… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
