Behaviorally Quotes & Sayings

The problem is that there may not be any way to really prove animal consciousness with data. Clever experiments can show that animals perform behaviorally in ways that people behave when they are in a particular state of phenomenal consciousness. But we can create robots that behave the way humans behave when we are having a phenomenal experience. Consciousness is, and probably always will be, an inner experience that is unobservable to anyone other than the experiencing organism. And in the absence of verbal report, there is little to measure. — Joseph E. Ledoux

[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic. — David Ayer

Reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted. — Joe Haldeman

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way. — Jack Nicholson

The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time, is really the stuff that interests me. — Steven Bochco

There is a hidden epidemic threatening the lives of millions of Americans ... hunger. In this land of plenty, it is unthinkable that fellow citizens are going hungry. Included among these millions are children who, due to malnourishment, are not developing to their full potential intellectually, emotionally or behaviorally. The fortunate must provide for the unfortunate ... — Swoosie Kurtz

The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not have the same consequences, neither logically nor behaviorally. — Sam Harris

Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery. — Alfredo Jaar

He was both inside and outside what he saw; that he was both connected and passing through ... both a part of things, and not. — Rachel Joyce

Positioning is part art, part science and part psychology, and that's why marketing strategy is a lot harder than it looks, especially if you actually want to win. — Austin McGhie

People only watch six to eight to 10 channels, so if you want to be one of those channels, then you have to create content so strong that people have to come not once, not twice but enough that, behaviorally, they start to feel like, 'That's my channel.' — David Zaslav

My writing day follows my family's day. I get a good few hours in the mornings when the kids are out of the house. And I don't work at night any more. I like to see my family. — Chang-rae Lee

Behaviorally challenging kids are challenging because they're lacking the skills to not be challenging. — Ross W. Greene

To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

If the woman still had a soul, it had been pressed thin enough to see through. — James S.A. Corey

Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance. — Larry Moss

I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived. — Ice-T

You have a deep desire to be right all of the time and a deeper desire to see yourself in a positive light both morally and behaviorally. You can stretch your mind pretty far to achieve these goals. — David McRaney

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment. — Ralph Adams Cram

The game theoretical analysis of the chain store game by backward induction is very easy and does not put any strain on the cognitive abilities of human beings. Even game theoretically untrained persons understand the backward induction argument without difficulty. Nevertheless, the conclusion is behaviorally unacceptable. The author was so worried about this contradiction that he felt three weeks of physical discomfort. — Reinhard Selten

There are times when having too much to say can be as dumbfounding as having too little. — Daniel Quinn