Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.
Buzz Osborne
StarsBehaviorLookEarthRock
Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior long after others had been solved to the satisfaction of physicians and philosophers.
Sherwin B. Nuland
BehaviorLongSatisfactionOthers
Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.
Gallagher
ParentsBehaviorFriendsTryingLine
Conflicting legislation and regulations, overlapping mandates, unwillingness to enforce land use, elite capture, entrenched attitudes, and lack of incentives to influence behavior are rife in many resource-rich countries.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
InfluenceBehaviorLandCaptureMany
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
Bill Gates
MoneyBehaviorGotChangingLotPut
To be quite honest, I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapped up in different hair and wardrobe and eras, and different period behavior, than it is to play closer to the present.
Scott Bakula
HairPresentBehaviorFindPlayUp
If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
Adam Grant
PositiveLeadershipBehaviorEarly
I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this country who help hold up the world.
Sissy Spacek
PeopleMeWorldBehaviorHelpHuman
Israel's behavior when it comes to Egypt is that of a battered wife. Nothing but apologies.
Avigdor Lieberman
WifeBehaviorNothingEgyptIsrael
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Thomas Mann
GoalsPeopleThinkBehaviorYou
I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.
Edith Widder
BehaviorSeeingLightsBrightDive
When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.
Simon Sinek
PeopleBrainBehaviorDecisionsSay
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
Albert Ellis
FearWomenAgeMyselfBehaviorOver
Once, my writing-avoidance behavior involved me mixing up a cleaning concoction and getting some ancient stains out of the carpet. My wife liked that one.
Tim Pratt
WifeMeBehaviorCleaningOutUp
Now, a lot of people didn't know him at all - it went through feeder funds, so they wouldn't even have known anything about Bernie Madoff. But everybody finds a justification for their behavior, and obviously, Bernie had a half dozen justifications in his own mind.
Barry Levinson
PeopleMindBehaviorKnowNowHim
The CBO does a great job on budget; they do a relatively poor job of what the coverage consequences of a healthcare plan are. Their ability - anybody's ability - to predict what human behavior is going to be, without looking at the entire construct, is difficult.
Tom Price
GreatJobLookingBehaviorPlan
Broken-windows enforcement is really about controlling behavior to such an extent you change it: If you deal with the little things, you can keep them from going into the big things. Zero tolerance implies zealotry. It's oppressive. And it's not achievable. You're never going to be in a position to eliminate all crime.
William Bratton
ChangeLittle ThingsBehaviorYou
The government is promoting bad behavior.
Rick Santelli
GovernmentBehaviorBadBad Behavior
The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along with knowing the history, behavior and local staff, helped make Golden Eagle a success story.
Roger Wang
SuccessHistoryEagleStoryBehavior
People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make.
Theodore Schultz
PeopleChoicesRichBehaviorFind
Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone - both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.
Richard P. Feynman
ExperienceBehaviorDifficultUsed
Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
InnovationBehaviorEnemyMindless
Any abhorrent behavior is more interesting to me. I'm always amazed when somebody asks me, 'Why don't you write something about nice people?' Because nice people are boring, that's why.
Terence Winter
PeopleMeBehaviorInterestingYou
I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with these huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.
Noah Baumbach
PeopleBlindBehaviorIntellectual
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