Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
Gary Becker
Related It is really a starting point for our analysis and for discussions. Generally we have tried to ident... MARK SCHEIBE It looks interesting. It's a good starting point. MAC CARRAWAY Talent is only the starting point. IRVING BERLIN The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I... KURT VONNEGUT For there is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this messag... KURT VONNEGUT It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet th... JAMES NEWMAN Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has... STANISLAV GROF Who is Hunter Becker?" "Becker the Gory? Lighthouse Keepers? Boston?" "I would've preferre... ILONA ANDREWS It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't. DAVID MILCH The post-Vietnam period was a period of enormous moral confusion. It felt very much like a starting-... DAVID MILCH The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowl... TALCOTT PARSONS There is reason to feel optimistic about many of the trends in risk behavior among our young people.... JEFFREY KOPLAN Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a ver... KAREN HORNEY What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself. ANITA BROOKNER One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find ... MELANIE KLEIN Morel mushrooms have an almost systematic pattern of growth. Once they sprout, they only fruit for 3... DARRELL COX Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or comme... DANIEL NATHANS Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about m... KURT VONNEGUT Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the star... KARL LEHMANN Poverty is a blessing only if regarded as starting point VICTOR PEREZ CENTENO We would love to have Gary down here, ... Gary is [37] years old, but he is still tenacious on defen... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself. NATALIE WOOD The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting poin... LUCIAN FREUD Nothing can be perfect... even the analysis of the human behavior. - If you think they can be perfec... DEYTH BANGER I should not have minded that, if they would only have left me alone. But they wouldn't leave me alo... CHARLES DICKENS Much of the conventional analysis of India's stature in the world relies on the all-too-familiar... SHASHI THAROOR Who will protect us if not the artists and the humanists? It's not science itself that tends to ques... ELIZABETH LANGLAND A blackout is similar to any side effect of drinking too much such as vomiting or abnormal behavior.... CHRIS AUSTIN The earlier report contained mistaken calculations, relied on unsupported and problematic assumption... KEVIN MARTIN The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. The... RON CHERNOW Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance T.S. ELIOT Family companies tend to be intuitive and instinctive. The business and the culture is in their bloo... DAN ROTTENBERG Without the grant, we would still be at about eight to 10 ACEs. Many of our ACEs say that they would... CLAIRE KING My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-... DAVID SHIELDS No county has a 2005 deviation greater than its 1988 deviation, a year that was the worst for many c... GARY SCHNITKEY Although many polls show that U.S. consumers are intent on altering their behavior (i.e., driving le... EDWARD MEIR It's interesting that there are only two groups of people in our country who are not held accoun... DEBBIE STABENOW They have to do the capability analysis for the sage grouse. LAURIE RULE What this and other studies like it are showing is that the protection we get from proper diet or su... MARET TRABER Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point. MAURICE SAATCHI Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be ... EDWARD SAPIR Gary Oldman is my TV hero. The incredible thing about Gary Oldman is his versatility. ANDREW-LEE POTTS a very solid, very realistic starting point for the discussions about education funding in 2006. THE ASSEMBLY The market reacted exactly the way they wanted it to, which was to flatten the yield curve. I think ... LARA RHAME Things don't 'fall' normally around small cosmic bodies. The local gravity is so low that any latera... RUSSELL SCHWEICKART The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, ... ORISON SWETT MARDEN I think at this point in time that the inverted yield curve is not signaling a slowdown. BEN BERNANKE And what do they want!? DEYTH BANGER Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses... ISABEL ALLENDE People who assume that this is a done deal are making a mistake, ... It's a starting point, a struct... BILL BRANDT We do not want to work off of assumptions. LEGISLATOR DENNIS KORCE The chakras are not only vortexes of energy, they are also centers for psychic reception. They are p... CATHERINE CARRIGAN We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows ... LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE You can't guard Hall with one player. They didn't have an answer for Hall or Becker tonight. CURT FREDRICKSON Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do... SAINT BERNARD The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Ru... EMANUEL CELLER From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new p... RICHARD P. FEYNMAN To know oneself is to have self control of your own feelings and actions for these alone are the bui... GARY F EVANS... Gavin de Becker talks about this in his wonderful book The Gift Of Fear. He talks about how the word... AMY POEHLER Still, I'm pretty positive about the site. A lot of their stuff is interesting. BARRY PARR Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives ... JESSICA VALENTI Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to... JON KABAT-ZINN The important thing is not to shout at this point, Vimes told himself. Do not…what do they call it... TERRY PRATCHETT If somebody is to the point where they are going to take pot shots at officers and not care, the onl... CECIL THOMAS The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets ar... RANDY NEUGEBAUER You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such... CARL SAGAN Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you wi... BRANDON SANDERSON That was an interesting point of view, but I still think there will continue to be a market for pack... FRANK GENS It is against our terms of agreement and illegal for [Karic and Becker] to harvest this information. CHRIS HUGHES At this point, it is impacting about 10 percent of the market. One of the questions industry has to ... LAURA DIDIO That could be something as simple as a discussion about the seriousness of it and do we or do we not... COUNCILMAN DAVID PHELEN Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do. KURT VONNEGUT I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me. NORMA MCCORVEY The proposal as presented to the (union) today is both unfair and unacceptable and does not represen... BRENDAN GOLD There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting. LAUREN BEUKES It was kind of a starting point of realizing what life was about. DANIEL JOHNSON The starting point of all achievement is desire. NAPOLEON HILL The starting point of all achievement is desire NAPOLEON HILL We all want to be revered for our obsession. Most are not revered because they do not know what they... JAMES BRADLEY SINCLAIR Many investors have become a lot more sophisticated with their asset allocations. They're not just l... DIANE VAZZA I hope we can get to a point where women players are being paid properly all around the world so the... ABBY WAMBACH Our discovery now poses very interesting questions not only about ancient Tamils but also about the ... THYAGARAJAN SATYAMURTHY I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it'... JIM CARREY Saturday's game is important for several reasons. It is the last regular-season game, and it not onl... ANNE DONOVAN Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they ... ROBERT ROSEN Things do happen now and then in various sites abroad, many times because of imprudent behavior, lik... JULIA DOUTHWAITE Joe Cope is still the starting center. I'm going to rotate J.P. in there to get as many reps as I ca... HUGH NALL Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly. GINA GREENLEE It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it? RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them. PHIL DONAHUE Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting p... FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Not a single force in the universe is interesting in defeating an individual, whose thirst for exist... DR HITESH C SHETH I can not think for others or without others,nor can others think for me. Even if the people's think... PAULO FREIRE Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. W. CLEMENT STONE It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, o... FRANZ KAFKA Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement W. CLEMENT STONE We had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us... calling them out o... JEFFREY EUGENIDES
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