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My rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) was one of the very few therapies that was originated partly or largely because I wanted to be brief and efficient. And therefore right from the start I was active and directive. I tried to show people some central masturbatory core to their philosophy and to get them to work at changing it cognitively, emotionally and behaviorally.

Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

Netflix will know everything. Netflix will know when a person stops watching it. They have all of their algorithms and will know that this person watched five minutes of a show and then stopped. They can tell by the behavior and the time of day that they are going to come back to it, based on their history.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.

Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.

None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.

nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

Obviously the bar is much higher now for a behavior to be scandalous. Social media has really changed the way people live. It's not a new impulse; it's just being enacted in a new way.

Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.

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.

Often if you are very, very close with someone, sometimes it does not read. In effect, your dynamic onstage is defused. You share too much onstage. There's sort of a blurring of behavior that doesn't read to the audience as chemistry.

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.

One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate — disgusting behavior!

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.

Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver

One of the things that's very troubling to voters about Donald Trump is his erratic behavior, his lack of good temperament to serve as commander in chief.

One thing that I learned that helped me deal with human behavior is confrontation, and I'm not that great with confrontation at all. But once I started to be O.K. with that, the better everybody's life got.

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

Our behavior toward others is often a reflection of our treatment of ourselves.

Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves.

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human 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.

People don't change at their core. If you're a good person, you are a good person. What changes is our behavior.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.

People love WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption in their opponents. People oppose WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption or dangerous behavior in themselves.

People will do something—including changing their behavior—only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values.

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what makes us us.

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.