Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernst Mayr

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.

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.

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.

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.

Leigh Steinberg

Ricky has been in the best behavioral mode of his life. He didn't work this hard to get back only to let that happen.

People will have to be motivated for behavioral change, providers will have to take greater responsibility for educating and monitoring patients and organizations will need to develop and provide better and more effective tools and interventions.

Thomas R. Insel

Reports that online cognitive behavioral treatment can be as effective as in-person psychotherapy suggest that technology will expand access, extend the impact of a therapist, and expedite treatment for people who might not find 'seeing' a therapist acceptable.

Michael K. Powell

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

Carlo Ratti

The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

Jim Jarmusch

is a kind of sad film -- it has a lot of funny stuff in it -- but I don't think of it as a comedy. ... The humor isn't a result of gags or big jokes, but small behavioral things people do.

Survivors have a multitude of cognitive difficulties, behavioral difficulties and some physical difficulties as well. The medical community helps them recover physically, but cognitive and emotional recovery is not what they do.

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.

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.

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.

Paul Allen

Our behavioral health records are appropriate for some doctors to see, but maybe not the nurse, but a psychiatrist would have full access,

Removal of BDNF before bullying, or treatment with antidepressants after bullying, both removed the behavioral abnormality observed.

These results contribute to our understanding of the possibilities and limitations of early intervention for severe deprivation, the importance of timing of intervention on recovery, and the effects of early experience on brain and behavioral development.

We want to establish their behavioral patterns before they have Internet technology. Then we can see what happens after they get wired. We can see how their lives and household habits change.

We want to create a small, special-purpose private school for children with emotional and behavioral problems.

There's no doubt that at some level sound is harmful. The question is, what is that level, and that's part of what we're trying to do here is study the lowest order of behavioral effects of low-frequency sound on marine mammals.

Harold E. Varmus

When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.

David Robertson

It's unexpected revenue, because people are just doing what they were always doing. It's not like a whole new market opened up. There's no behavioral change. It's just more money.

Mark Richt

I'm very disappointed and penalties for behavioral issues are going to be severe. Playing time is valuable to all players and it will be very limited to those who cannot conduct themselves in an appropriate manner.

If you don't trust the other person, you don't negotiate well with them. Microsoft has had two years to figure out a behavioral remedy that has lots of loopholes and escape clauses in it.

Leigh Steinberg

I am not prepared to comment because it is a confidential matter. Any league officials who are sources for this ought to be fired. Ricky Williams has been in the best behavioral mode I have ever seen him in. I think it's important that no one rushes to judgment or jumps the gun on any reactions.

Behind search advertising's great success is self-targeting users revealing their interests by the keywords they enter. As with search, self-targeting rather than media manipulation is the key to engagement marketing or behavioral advertising.

This is not a critical issue for our customers, as this virus hasn't been seen in the wild. McAfee has a broad range of security products, many of which have behavioral controls which would be able stop an attack.