Underlying Factors Quotes

More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.

That's a very complicated issue [with Donal Trump supporters]. There's things going on with people that we're not privy to, we don't understand. These aren't just a bunch of bad people. That isn't how it works.

There are more reasons for people's actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion.

Our beliefs are the invisible ingredients in all our activities.

I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.

Obviously, stats are important tools, but I think there's something behind those things; somewhere along the way, you've got to try to look inside someone.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

The high note is not the only thing.

In real life, when you have an emotional experience, it's never just because of the thing that's been said. There's the backstory. It's like [Ernest] Hemingway's iceberg theory - the current emotional moment is the tip of the iceberg and all of the past is the seven-eighths of the iceberg that's underwater.

Donald Trump didn't cause chaos. Chaos caused Trump.

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

There's always a reason for everything.