#behavior

For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe this?", but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, "Must I believe this? ↗

— Thomas Gilovich

#human-behavior #logic #mind #psychology #life

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#science #social-behavior #science

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#genes #patterns #temperments #thought #life

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. ↗

— P.J. O'Rourke

#behavior #being-exceptional #humor #humor

Peaches found herself wondering if Mary, a tiny brunette with an unprepossessing manner and less than ‘stellar’ work ethics, had to play Where’s Waldo to find Steve’s dick beneath his gigantic waistline. ↗

— A.T. Hicks

#funny #outrageous-behavior #penis-size #funny

General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be. ↗

— Jane Austen

#friendship

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#black #black and white #gray #million #perpetrator

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#between #dictators #external #genuine #least

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse. ↗

— Robert Shea

#enough #even #get #kicked #major

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me. ↗

— Amy Smart

#behavior #fascinating #human #human behavior #me