A Quote by Deanna Raybourn

To know how a character will behave in any given situation is a necessity and a gift.

Deanna Raybourn

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Deanna Raybourn
American - Author
Born: June 17, 1968

Researchers have always tried to use psychology for predictive ends: Can what we already know about a person tell us how she will behave in a given situation? The results of these endeavors have been mixed.

Maria Konnikova

The idea is that in any situation, people have a notion as to who they are and how they should behave. And if you don't behave according to your identity, you pay a cost.

George Akerlof

One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.

Christine Sneed

My father's special gift? I think for one it was his gentleness. The way that he could offer a heart in any given situation.

John Carter Cash

With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

Viggo Mortensen

With any character I have played there’s infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

Viggo Mortensen

The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and disposition of the individual, the manner in which he will act might be unerringly inferred: that if we knew the person thoroughly, and knew all the inducements which are acting upon him, we could foretell his conduct with as much certainty as we can predict any physical event.

John Stuart Mill

I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.

Robert De Niro

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose... That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?

Ursula K. Le Guin

I am deeply reminded that our life’s journey is a gift, not a given, and that we can never truly know how long the journey will last. All we can do is decide how it unfolds.

Sonia Choquette

I can't. At least not for a while. I need time to get past this and I can't guarantee that I won't hurt him again. God knows, Nick has a true gift for saying the wrong thing in any given situation. (Acheron) You know he loves you, right? (Amanda) Yeah, but emotions don't have brains. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is not possible to know how to behave in threatening situations before you even end up in such a situation.

Varg Vikernes

Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

Viktor E. Frankl

Yeah, I think it's like any God-given gift. You writers have the gift of perception. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. And it's the same thing with you [Lorraine], it's God-given.

Vera Farmiga

One can learn to focus on "opportunity" as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in times of sickness, someone who habitually practices grateful living will look for the opportunity that a given moment offers and use it creatively.