Garrison Wynn Quotes
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We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.
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The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.
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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.
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It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.
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Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.
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The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.
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For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.
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I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.
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Oh, Claire," he said. "You think me a far better man than I am. That's kind, and flattering." "Are you saying that you -" "Doughnuts!" Myrnin interrupted her and darted away, to zip back in seconds with an open box.
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People don't change at their core. If you're a good person, you are a good person. What changes is our behavior.
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I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
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Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.
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You have only 30 seconds with a new person. I will give you a hug so you know I’m real, and then you’re real too.
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I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.
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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
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I still get a few dirty looks over the racks in the supermarket, but nobody kicks me in the shins on Water Street. I've made sort of a point, apart from being a social dud, not to fraternize with the people I write about.
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I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds
