1,012 Quotes About Behavior




  • Author Randolph M. Nesse
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    Most behavior is in pursuit of a goal. Some efforts are attempts to get something, others to escape or prevent something. Either way, an individual is usually trying to make progress toward some goal. High and low moods are aroused by situations that arise during goal pursuit. What situations? A generic but useful answer is: high and low moods were shaped to cope with propitious and unpropitious situations.

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  • Author Abhishek Verma
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    The issue with our society is self-explanatory. They praise soldiers and show contempt toward the rich. In reality, they want someone else to become a soldier, and they want to become rich.

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  • Author Theodore Sturgeon
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    The sap falls and the bear sleeps and the birds fly south, al doing it together, not because they are all members of the same thing, but only because they are all solitary things hurt by the same thing.

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