Joan Silk quote: "Humans in situations like this, and at a greater personal cost to themselves, are willing to behave in generous ways with complete strangers, ... These chimps were not motivated to provide rewards to others, even those that they knew socially. In order to be pro-social, you have to demonstrate that it is about the other. This just didn't happen."

Nevertheless, chimpanzees were clearly motivated to obtain rewards for themselves, but not to provid...
JOAN SILK

Human altruism is thought to be based, in part, on empathy. To be empathetic, you need to understand...
JOAN SILK

This is the first experiment to show that chimps don't share the same concern for the welfare of oth...
JOAN SILK

Yet, potential recipients sometimes displayed begging gestures, suggesting that at least they had so...
JOAN SILK

I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in th...
ANNA SILK

make an agreement to exercise mutual control over each other. The unspoken pact between them is, “...
DANNY SILK

I had a book that was given to me as a kid that was called 'Faeries.' It was this dark, sini...
ANNA SILK

The greatest reward of fatherhood for me is simply watching my son smile at me. In life I cherish th...
ROBBY SILK

I was asked the other day what it was like to become father? It’s a moments so raw and real that y...
ROBBY SILK

It was interesting to see the different bands, fife and drum corps, and bagpipes. For a 16-block are...
MIKE SILK

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and jus...
ANNA SILK

For every dark night I pray for a brighter day. Regrettably, life sometimes has the darkest of days ...
ROBBY SILK

Powerful people take responsibility for their lives and choices. Powerful people choose who they wan...
DANNY SILK

Trying to convince someone to care about your needs without being vulnerable enough to communicate t...
DANNY SILK

One of the reasons people perish without a vision is that they cannot endure the pain and cost requi...
DANNY SILK

The question at stake is how you will react to the pain you experience in relationships. If you fall...
DANNY SILK

Popular opinion or the pressure of others does not sway the language of powerful people. They know e...
DANNY SILK

They will continue to recreate their victimized reality as long as they refuse to repent from it and...
DANNY SILK

Because they cannot take responsibility for their decisions, powerless people are relegated to react...
DANNY SILK

The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement
DANNY SILK

It’s hard to go out and love sinners like Jesus did when you’re still afraid of your own sin.
DANNY SILK

Some people mistakenly think Jesus is like them—a whacked-out, co-dependent person at the mercy of...
DANNY SILK

In order to begin training yourself to respond in love, the first thing you need to accept is this t...
DANNY SILK

If you want to cast out all the fear in your relationships, then you need to leave no room for doubt...
DANNY SILK

I choose you.” This is the foundation of true, lasting relationships. It is the foundation for God...
DANNY SILK

However, if all our relationships are based solely on our natural impulse to return liking for likin...
DANNY SILK

This is because fear and love are enemies. They come from two opposing kingdoms. Fear comes from the...
DANNY SILK

The experience of intimacy—of being completely known and accepted, and completely knowing and acce...
DANNY SILK

You can start practicing the skills of assertive communication by paying attention to your thoughts,...
DANNY SILK

You have to embark on your own quest to discover why you are on this planet, what makes you get out ...
DANNY SILK

Typically, people allow differences and mistakes to lower their respect and value for other people. ...
DANNY SILK

Powerful people are not affected or infected by their environment. They refuse to be victims of othe...
DANNY SILK

The more others encounter us honoring the boundaries we have set for our lives, the more they will k...
DANNY SILK

If you were blessed to have parents who taught you to be responsible for your choices, then you shou...
DANNY SILK

I choose you.” This is the foundation of true, lasting relationships. It is the foundation for God...
DANNY SILK

Yes, it’s vulnerable and scary to keep your love on toward someone who has become a perceived thre...
DANNY SILK

In a respectful relationship, each person understands, “I am responsible to know what is going on ...
DANNY SILK

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn’t work, and that it’s not...
DANNY SILK

In order for us to practice self-control, we must have a goal. We must have something we are saying ...
DANNY SILK

As I started to turn round a guy tipped a bucket of farmyard muck over me and then threw the rest of...
ROBERT KILROY-SILK

I have said I will not work with the parliamentary party in Strasbourg again but of course I will co...
ROBERT KILROY-SILK

My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, ...
JOAN RIVERS

When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and ...
JOAN SMALLS

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it fro...
JOAN DIDION

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
JOAN MIRO

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
JOAN RIVERS

Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.
JOAN RIVERS

Being Jewish has always been important to me. I now have 6M tattooed on the inside of my left arm. I...
JOAN RIVERS

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.
JOAN RIVERS

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property...
JOAN RIVERS

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.
JOAN RIVERS

I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
JOAN RIVERS

Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
JOAN RIVERS

I'm always shocked when I get an invitation. People are always shocked when they see me at a par...
JOAN RIVERS

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the ...
JOAN RIVERS

I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.
JOAN RIVERS

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the w...
JOAN RIVERS

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That...
JOAN RIVERS

Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.
JOAN SMALLS

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.
JOAN DIDION

Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting ...
JOAN DIDION

I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it ...
JOAN RIVERS

I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death inte...
JOAN BAEZ

We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.
JOAN GREENWOOD

I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, ...
JOAN JETT

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, t...
JOAN JETT

Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just r...
JOAN CUSACK

What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is go...
JOAN DIDION

I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, w...
JOAN COLLINS

I love getting back to Wivenhoe. I get out of my wig, bustle and costume in three minutes flat at th...
JOAN HICKSON

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualiti...
JOAN BAEZ

What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad ...
JOAN BLADES

Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
JOAN LARSEN

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organiz...
JOAN BAEZ

When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at mys...
JOAN COLLINS

I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando w...
JOAN COLLINS

Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.
JOAN WELSH

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can ...
JOAN RIVERS

Writers are always selling somebody out.
JOAN DIDION

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until y...
JOAN ERICKSON

Roache's statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to...
JOAN SMITH

Jesus
JOAN DIDION

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a...
JOAN RIVERS

A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
JOAN LUNDEN

I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, ...
JOAN DIDION

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never t...
JOAN CRAWFORD

Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is ...
JOAN MARQUES

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
JOAN DIDION

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
JOAN COLLINS

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not th...
JOAN DIDION

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them att...
JOAN DIDION

If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
JOAN WELSH

Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of ...
JOAN BORYSENKO

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
JOAN BORYSENKO

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live no...
JOAN BAEZ

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
JOAN RIVERS

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
JOAN RIVERS

Can we talk?
JOAN RIVERS

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.
JOAN GILBERTSON

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
JOAN WELSH

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have ev...
JOAN DIDION

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soo...
JOAN DIDION

The Four Rules of Life:
1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the res...
JOAN BORYSENKO

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look...
JOAN BORYSENKO

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing ...
JOAN BAEZ

All serious daring starts from within.
JOAN BAEZ

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europ...
JOAN DIDION

A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the u...
JOAN DIDION

The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
JOAN BORYSENKO

Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended a...
JOAN DIDION

We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we share...
JOAN DIDION

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that ...
JOAN DIDION

According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean any...
JOAN COLLINS

If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you...
JOAN SUTHERLAND

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
JOAN BAEZ

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organizat...
JOAN BAEZ

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
JOAN DIDION

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all...
JOAN RIVERS

There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexua...
JOAN DIDION

Death affords those who are left an opportunity to reevaluate everything. And though we would give a...
JOAN BORDOW

Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off?
JOAN MANLEY

The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
JOAN BAEZ

...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building:
He approached the fi...
JOAN BORYSENKO

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect sp...
JOAN DIDION

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
JOAN RIVERS

Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] sp...
JOAN KONNER

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. W...
JOAN DIDION

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from whi...
JOAN DIDION

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
JOAN BAEZ

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
JOAN RIVERS

I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.
JOAN DIDION

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid f...
JOAN RIVERS

No woman has an abortion for fun.
JOAN SMITH

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw fro...
JOAN LUNDEN

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
JOAN KLEMPNER

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to sh...
JOAN KIRNER

Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go th...
JOAN JETT

The 325-foot Seagram Tower is the most southerly and closest to the Canadian falls and also affords ...
JOAN LINGARD

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. T...
JOAN CUSACK

It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.
JOAN CRAWFORD

I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just ...
JOAN DIDION

We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do.
JOAN BLADES

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
JOAN CHEN

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's ...
JOAN CUSACK

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate...
JOAN DIDION

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
JOAN RIVERS

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want...
JOAN JETT

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as so...
JOAN CUSACK

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds ...
JOAN RIVERS

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the wor...
JOAN CUSACK

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It'...
JOAN JETT

My personal style is bipolar. Sometimes I feel like dressing in a boyish leather jacket; other times...
JOAN SMALLS

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
JOAN LUNDEN

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
JOAN COLLINS

It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism ...
JOAN DIDION

I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full th...
JOAN RIVERS

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wi...
JOAN COLLINS

For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.
JOAN JETT

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compas...
JOAN HALIFAX

Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I...
JOAN RIVERS

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
JOAN JETT

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and ...
JOAN RIVERS

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.
JOAN RIVERS

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
JOAN DIDION

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
JOAN DIDION

My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' Al...
JOAN DIDION

Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you.
JOAN RIVERS

Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of...
JOAN LINGARD

One of the main secrets to staying young is staying healthy. I've sometimes had to suppress a sm...
JOAN COLLINS

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
JOAN JETT

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life m...
JOAN MIRO

I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of ...
JOAN KIRNER

The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in yo...
JOAN DIDION

I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'...
JOAN HICKSON

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost ha...
JOAN BAEZ

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was...
JOAN ALLEN

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
JOAN MIRO

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important tha...
JOAN ARMATRADING

When I first met Antonin Scalia, I was a small child with one brown ponytail atop my head. Which is ...
JOAN LARSEN

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your record...
JOAN JETT

Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the...
JOAN BLADES

You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up....
JOAN SEVERANCE

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
JOAN DIDION

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
JOAN BAUER

I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. An...
JOAN LUNDEN

We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to ...
JOAN BLADES

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
JOAN MIRó

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.
JOAN RIVERS

Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only questio...
JOAN DIDION

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.
JOAN COLLINS

Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and ...
JOAN COLLINS

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes t...
JOAN JETT

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the b...
JOAN CUSACK

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which ha...
JOAN MIRO

I'm grateful for every day I'm still alive. Everything is still working. I attribute it to e...
JOAN RIVERS

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the b...
JOAN HALIFAX

Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have h...
JOAN CUSACK

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know...
JOAN COLLINS

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