{"quotes":[{"text":"Islamophobia defines whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["consciousness","fear","fundamentalism","human-behavior","human-mind","human-nature","inspirational","inspiring","islam","islamophobia","jihad","motivational","muslims","philosophy","phobia","primitive-human-behavior","quran","religious-terrorism","terrorism","truth"],"id":3452,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.","author":"Lev S. Vygotsky","tags":["childhood","human-behavior","human-nature","parenting"],"id":10800,"author_id":"Lev+S.+Vygotsky"},{"text":"To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help. But when the incentive level is very high, it can command too much attention and thereby distract the person’s mind with thoughts about the reward. This can create stress and ultimately reduce the level of performance.","author":"Dan Ariely","tags":["economics","human","human-behavior","mind","motivation","wok"],"id":22897,"author_id":"Dan+Ariely"},{"text":"It seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity of two entities, people pay more attention to the ways in which they are similar than to the ways in which they differ. Asked to assess dissimilarity, they become more concerned with differences than with similarities. In other words, when testing a hypothesis of similarity, people look for evidence of similarity rather than dissimilarity, and when testing a hypothesis of dissimilarity, they do the opposite. The relationship one perceives between two entities, then, can vary with the precise form of the question that is asked.","author":"Thomas Gilovich","tags":["brain","fallacy","human-behavior","logic","mind","psychology"],"id":27450,"author_id":"Thomas+Gilovich"},{"text":"No one really knows why humans do what they do.","author":"David K. Reynolds","tags":["constructive-living","human-behavior","morita-therapy","psychology"],"id":51384,"author_id":"David+K.+Reynolds"},{"text":"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).","author":"Jess C. Scott","tags":["cyberpunk","elven","elves","family","friends","friendship","human-behavior","human-nature","humanity","humankind","humans","inside-ourselves","insight","insightful","life","life-lessons","love","meaning","meaning-of-life","nq-mobile-omar-khan","omar-khan-nq-mobile","reflection","reflective","social-commentary","social-issues","social-science","society","truth","urban-fantasy","urban-fantasy-series","ya-urban-fantasy","young-adult","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-literature","young-adult-novels","young-adult-series"],"id":57118,"author_id":"Jess+C.+Scott"},{"text":"Gradually, after being the target a few times of a similar capriciousness, which he discerned as default behavior for most people, and not liking it, Paul learned to not be more generous or enthusiastic or attentive that he could sustain regardless of his mood and to not talk to people if his only reason to was because he felt lonely or bored.","author":"Tao Lin","tags":["human-behavior","loneliness"],"id":62984,"author_id":"Tao+Lin"},{"text":"A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["a-paradox","actions","human-acts","human-behavior","humanity","humor","ignorance","life","nature"],"id":71851,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"One does not like insults yet ironically he is an expert in insulting others. How can this be called a human-behavior?","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["human-behavior","insult","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":88123,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["evolutionary-psychology","human-behavior","human-nature","neurobiology","neuroscience","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-human-nature","primitive-urges","self-control","self-regulation","self-restraint"],"id":102210,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":73,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}