Behavior Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates…

— Nido R Qubein

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

— Cornel West

“some people are thermometers, some are thermostats. You’re a thermostat. You don’t register the temperature in a room, you change it.”

— Andre Agassi

“Be a thermometer and not a thermostat! (Set the temperature rather than registering it!)”

— Karen Budzinski

Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats.

— Arlene Francis

The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.

— Alex Shoumatoff

...the possibility of circular reasoning arises-that is, using the temperature record to derive a key input to climate models that are then tested against…

— Theodore Wilbur Anderson

We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic 'temperature' are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design…

— Adrian Bejan

In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.

— William Greider

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if…

— Seth Lloyd

We only have to look around us to see how complexity ... and psychic "temperature" are still rising: and rising no longer on the…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin