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With a Trump administration we don't know enough yet to make predictions, but if past behavior is any indication, I am not encouraged.
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.
The easiest way to win the competition for eyeballs in the digital age is to broadcast bad behavior. People like watching train wrecks.
Values must be demonstrated through behaviors, but they are truly significant when they represent the beliefs of an entire organization.
In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.
The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and nonviolent behavior.
We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.
We're often blinded by romance; we decide to not see things we don't want to see, and put up with behavior that we shouldn't put up with.
The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.
Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.
nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.
A lot of times, that asshole behavior is a cover for deep insecurities, and sometimes the deeper the insecurities, the bigger the asshole.
Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.
Cats are unpredictable because they're wild and domestic at the same time. Watching a cat's behavior is like a small window into the wild.
You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
I think people, whether they realize they're doing it or not, seek out distractions to take their minds off what they know is bad behavior.
Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.
When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior.
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.
In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.
I have lots of concerns at working with Russia going against ISIS until we have agreements in terms of what Russia's behavior is going to be.
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed.
The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.
Maybe people are not able to define their fears. But they have them, and it shows from their behavior. There is so much frustration and anger.
Game studios, developers, and major publishers need to vocally speak up against the harassment of women and say this behavior is unacceptable.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
Poker is about understanding human behavior and managing emotions - yours and the other guy's. That's huge in poker, and it's huge in business.
Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.
A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.
I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.
Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little laugh. It's like a reflex.
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.
Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.
What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.
My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.
Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.
I've never gone to a bachelor party, where I didn't, no matter how much I loved the people there, hate them so much for their disgusting behavior.
People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.