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Women process stress differently. If we can change the workplace culture to make it more welcoming for women, we're also going to improve behavior, and we're going to improve outcomes.

~Arianna Huffington

Topics: Also Behavior Change Culture Differently Going Improve Make More Outcomes Process Stress Welcoming Women Workplace

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Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

~Arthur Rock

Topics: After Anybody Behavior Best Everybody Figure First Get Know Meeting Only Out Them Which While You

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I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.

~Austan Goolsbee

Topics: Altered Am Amount Behavior Commerce Company Could Data Drifted End Find Gather Good Hound Information Internet Naturally Rise Things Toward Up Whatever Working You I Am I Can

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Israel's behavior when it comes to Egypt is that of a battered wife. Nothing but apologies.

~Avigdor Lieberman

Topics: Apology Battered Behavior Egypt Israel Nothing Wife

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If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: About Bad Bag Behavior Bust Cheese Crappy Does Engine Feel Inspires Make Makes Me Modification Only Open Popcorn Reliable Shame Then Weight Were Which

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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

Topics: Animals Become Behavior Believing Civilized Control Crop Domestic He His Justified Learning Learns Man May Own Plants Understand Well

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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Apply Behavior Benefits Changing Coercion Controls Eliminate Environment Everyone Ideal Kind Reinforce Such A Way Way

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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Behavior Committed Culture Deprivation Feeding Great Hungry Longer Money New Nor Now Offers Once Our People Reasons Reinforced Used Were Whether Work

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I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Anything Awful Awful Lot Behavior Creating Else Found Lot People Relinquish Responsible Somewhere Somewhere Else Tell

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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

~Barbara Deming

Topics: Abandon Adopt Behavior Choice Concept Enable Enemies Familiar Hold Naming Nonviolent Only Oppressive Our Think Tradition Us Vision Will I Think

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