#behavior

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices. ↗

#behaviors #choice #choices #control #feelings

To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#determined #early #females #fixed #genetically

You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#manners #change

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#behavior #believing #civilized #control #crop

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#banking #behaves #behavior #capitalism #corners

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance. ↗

— James Chanos

#between #big #big difference #difference #falls

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true. ↗

— David Caruso

#behavior #heard #probably #story #true

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#behavior #only #rational #reactive #reflex

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#behavior #engaged #everyone #human #human behavior

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want. ↗