Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas A. Christakis

It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. These would include departments of biosocial science, network science, neuroeconomics, behavioral genetics and computational social science.

B. F. Skinner

Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

Jerry Hogle

We recognize if a certain college, like the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, gets a large influx of students, we need to help out, and we are.

Peter R. Grant

To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.

Winifred Gallagher

We need to think about our homes from a behavioral perspective.

Mary Meeker

We aren't at all opposed to disciplining Microsoft, but we think a breakup is simply too harsh. We continue to believe that a more appropriate remedy would relate to behavioral changes, government changes and perhaps an economic hit.

Don Blandin

We all recognize that investors need to know certain key facts and concepts. But it may be even more important to their long-term financial security that investors learn the behavioral process of investing.

Srikumar Rao

My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes from examining your deep-rooted beliefs of who you are and how the world functions. As you examine these beliefs and make changes in them, you literally become a different person.

Srikumar Rao

When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very good that you will not succeed. This is so universally true that you can actually make money from it.

Yolanda Adams

I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.

Werner Herzog

Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.

Wayne Rooney

Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

Warren Farrell

I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Walead Beshty

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Walter Crane

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

Warren Stephens

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

William Kirby

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

Vijender Singh

When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.

Elizabeth Warren

Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.

Craig Dawson

We played a hard match tonight, but things just did not go our way. Tonight's match was a good tune-up for us in our preparation for the College Squash Association Team Championship.

Michael Johnson

We play a schedule of 30 to 35 games, and we've been told we're comparable to some small colleges and community colleges. We have to make cuts because so many players turn out. All of our guys have solid backgrounds in high school or community college ball.

Ban Ki-moon

Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!

Derek Bok

Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.

Leslie Huntington

When a player makes that transition from high school to college, you never know what to expect from them.

Roger Morris

When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.

Jane McGonigal

I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.

Claire Danes

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

Wendy Kopp

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.

Bonnie Tyler

The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.

David Carson

Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.

Nile Rodgers

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

Nas

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Steve Buscemi

When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed.

Charles Manson

When I go on the mountain and I say "Do it!", it gets done. And if it doesn't get done, then I move on it. And that's the last thing in the world you want from me!

Vincent Simeone

When a tree gets transplanted, its growth slows down because it's in shock.

Matt Winkler

When a team gets into a slump, it seems everyone does. Fortunately, Jake and Jordan stepped up.

Wesley Clark

The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Christopher Dodd

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Greg Goodwin

We played with what we had. The kids really stepped up and played tough. It will only help us in the tournament.

George Rinehart

We played a practice round in the wind yesterday. I think that helped us a lot. We knew where we could hit and where we couldn't hit it.

Paul Wayne

We play a pretty competitive league and non-league schedule which helps prepare us for the tournament.

Billy Graham

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Bonnie Tyler

My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

Boris Johnson

We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your borough and wait for it to come near you.

Charles Francis Richter

For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different relative magnitude rating than using light energy from the middle of the spectrum.

Chad Hurley

Many large brands are now just marketing machines for what's being made offshore.

Patch Adams

We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

Sergei Lavrov

Conversations with my counterparts in Europe have made clear that many of them recognize NATO's limitations and understand the need for reform.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure.

Marc Racicot

We recognize that this is a regional resource, and its development has regional implications.

Allison Tolman

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

Larina Kase

To become successful is to recognize every tiny step towards successand then take more of them.

Tariq Aziz

We don't have any relationship with the Taliban, ... We didn't recognize the Taliban.

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

Le Corbusier

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Noam Chomsky

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

Ludwig von Mises

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Ludwig von Mises

Socialist society is a society of officials.

Ludwig von Mises

The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Ludwig von Mises

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

Gary Knowles

We are doing it for their own protection. They are subjected to not just violence, but also social diseases.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.