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Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

~Eliot Spitzer

Topics: Acts Again Bad Bad Behavior Bailout Bank Banks Because Behavior Created Differently Financial First Had Hazard Incentive Loans Make Misfortune Moral Out Own Parenting Reward Rules Said Same

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Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

~Eliot Spitzer

Topics: Behavior Corporate Management Obligation Parameters Profit Right Set Shareholders Which Within

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Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

~Elizabeth Janeway

Topics: Animals Behavior Biology Connections Family Good Growing Growing Up How Human Instincts Learn Matter Place Program Question Raises Rather Relations Social Social Relations Takes Than Uniquely Up Which Within

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I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.

~Elizabeth Mitchell

Topics: Bad Bad Behavior Behavior Belief Good Good Things Intentions Know Overlook People Really Things Want Will

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I don't think there's anybody I write about who I don't care for deeply in some way, no matter what their behavior is.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: About Anybody Behavior Care Deeply Matter Some Think Way Who Write I Write

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Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.

~Elizabeth Thornton

Topics: About Adult Assumptions Behavior Childhood Continue Create Drive Emotionally Experiences Intense Memory Mental Models Our Reinforced Sometimes Strong Them Then Which

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I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

~Ellie Goulding

Topics: Attention Behavior Fascinates Guess Human Human Behavior Just Lot Me Observant Pay Pay Attention Quite Really Things

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Like Hollywood, Washington, and New York City, Silicon Valley is in a moral crisis after a litany of revelations about predatory behavior by powerful men.

~Emily Chang

Topics: About After Behavior City Crisis Hollywood Like Men Moral New New York New York City Powerful Predatory Revelations Silicon Silicon Valley Valley Washington York

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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Behavior Believes Does Feels He Man Thinks

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The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.

~Emily Oster

Topics: Anyone Basic Behavior Clear Employees Idea Incentives Knows Motivate Parenting Place Powerful Rewards Sticker Toddler Tried Used Who Works

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