Behavior Quote by Alissa Quart

“Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.”

— Shulamith Firestone

Growing up as a young kid, I was in a restaurant. So, you know, I always had a very good understanding of the nuances.…

— Grant Achatz

Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our…

— James Richardson

The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is…

— David H. Hubel

“The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired into our neurological and emotional network.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the…

— Abhijit Naskar

“[I]f you can be with the pleasant without chasing after it, with the unpleasant without resisting it, and with the neutral without ignoring it…

— Rick Hanson

“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us…

— Abhijit Naskar

“...what draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the…

— Lisa Cron

“The conscious events that we are aware of are physical events in their own right, just as much as the brain events observed in…

— William Hirstein

“The purpose of all of this (left hemisphere's way of choosing denial or repression over considering an anomaly) is to impose stability on behavior…

— V.S. Ramachandran

“The brain works in a holistic, cooperative way that makes our basest desire or most abject fear as expressive of who we are as…

— David Amerland

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

— Joel Kinnaman