Quotes About Dynamics

Despite their similarities, Pratt was a timid executive who lacked Rockefeller's audacity and often felt slighted by him.

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities.

He wondered if what people said was true, that no one could hate you more than members of your own family.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

All is flux; nothing stays still.

In our view, leadership is always a relationship, and truly successful leadership thrives in a group culture of high openness and high trust. Leadership and culture can be seen as two sides of the same coin, and culture is quintessentially a group phenomenon. Though this book focuses on a new model of leadership, it is equally a book about culture and group dynamics.

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

In a team situation, I think the players are more inclined to give the answer they believe the psychologist is looking for rather than maybe being totally honest.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

With 'Before We Die,' the psychology of the characters and their relationships with one another was key.

One game that drives me crazy, is when a guy gives the girl they really like more attention, and then they feel like maybe they pressed too hard, so they back way off and start giving other women attention. I've never pulled this myself.

I enjoyed playing with the guys in Free Spirit so much because they really dug into Free material, and I really liked how they expressed it. They have a lot of dynamics.

With some actors, you can tell, just from their different backgrounds and their different approaches to working, they would have just a natural conflict, just a sort of friction.

ongoing drama of life in a small town.

we can think of determinism as working backward as well as forward in time.

There's something hostile about the way they enter and leave the room that tells you what they think of you. It could be your imagination and you try to figure out what will bring them over to your side. You try lessons that worked with other classes but even that doesn't help and it's because of that chemistry. They know when they have you on the run. They have instincts that detect your frustrations.

Music without the ebb and flow would be like watching a film with only good guys in it.

The #metoo campaign opened a particular window into the gender dynamics in technology, with many prominent women speaking out.

The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody's role, and when you're in a group like that, that can't survive.

There are completely deterministic universe models, with clear-cut rules of evolution, that are impossible to simulate computationally.

A slap or a fat check is what it takes if you want to see all the passions that go beating about behind a face take a sudden tack. It's as beautiful as watching a sailing ship maneuvering in a stormy sea. The whole person keels over in the changed wind.

I've found in life that the nicest people somehow seem to end up with the most unkind partners. I've never understood that myself.