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I'm interested in the relationships of people. I'm interested in the darker moments within us. All those aspects of human behavior, I'm fascinated by. But in the times we're in, those are hard movies to make. So if I can do it at HBO, fine.

~Barry Levinson

Topics: Aspects Behavior Darker Fascinated Fine Hard Human Human Behavior Interested Make Moments Movies People Relationships Those Times Us Within I Can Hbo

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Now, a lot of people didn't know him at all - it went through feeder funds, so they wouldn't even have known anything about Bernie Madoff. But everybody finds a justification for their behavior, and obviously, Bernie had a half dozen justifications in his own mind.

~Barry Levinson

Topics: About Anything Behavior Dozen Even Everybody Finds Funds Had Half Him His Justification Know Known Lot Mind Now Obviously Own People Through

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The more pressure that an actor puts on himself, the harder it is to deliver behavior that's interesting, and so I just try to find a way without talking too much.

~Barry Levinson

Topics: Actor Behavior Deliver Find Harder Himself Interesting Just More Much Pressure Puts Talking Too Too Much Try Way Without

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Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.

~Barry Ritholtz

Topics: Active After Behavior Chasing Hand Hot Investor Leads Lots Management Moment People Poor Sends Whoever

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Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.

~Barry Schwartz

Topics: Addiction Behavior Changing Create Effective Psychology Punishments Research Rewards Same Same Time Shown Time Very Years

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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

~Bebe Moore Campbell

Topics: About Because Behavior Change Continue Enlighten Entertain Going Journey Mind Out Reading Really Something Take Then Want You Your

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If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt bankers' own long-term interests and the economy in general.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Bankers Become Behavior Conservative Economy Force General Hurt Interests Lending Long-Term Mistakes Overly Own Past Response Will

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Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: About Academic Behavior Category Concerns Economic Economies Empirical Falls Generalizations Individuals Institutions Itself Markets Most National Primarily Research Science Theoretical

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Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: Bad Bad Behavior Behavior Bit Buried Clear Consequences Control Detect Harder Home Lab Less Maybe Mostly Motivated Motivation Much Ourselves Out Public Terrible Test Things Without You

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A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

~Benjamin N. Cardozo

Topics: Alone Behavior Held Honesty Honor Market Morals Most Place Sensitive Something Standard Than Then

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