Behavior Quotations

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.

I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.

For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.

Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

Spry is not a look, spry is behavior.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance...

The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.'

Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.

Game studios, developers, and major publishers need to vocally speak up against the harassment of women and say this behavior is unacceptable.

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys' behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years?

In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

The implications of likability are long-lasting and serious. Women adjust their behavior to be likable and as a result have less power in the world. And this desire to be liked and accepted goes beyond the boardroom - it's an issue that comes up for women in their personal lives as well, especially as they become more opinionated and outspoken.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

I would love to be a field biologist. I would love to do what Jane Goodall did, just totally immerse myself in the life of one specific species for years and study every aspect of its behavior until little by little, all of these patterns become clear. That would be great, but I don't know if I have it left in me.

Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.

The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

It's natural canine behavior to chew on all sorts of things, roll in other animals' droppings, hump and fight other dogs, menace anything that invades the home. All these behaviors can be curbed, but that takes a lot of work. Trainers say it requires nearly 2,000 repetitions of a behavior for a dog to completely absorb it.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

It's so cheap to store all data. It's cheaper to keep it than to delete it. And that means people will change their behavior because they know anything they say online can be used against them in the future.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.

Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

I think AIDS can be won. I think we can win this fight. It is winnable. But it means behavior change.

In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.

I always say centered food equals centered behavior.

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer

'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

Every defendant knows, if endowed with the mental competence for criminal responsibility, that the life he will take by his homicidal behavior is that of a unique person, like himself, and that the person to be killed probably has close associates, 'survivors,' who will suffer harms and deprivations from the victim's death.

As far as One Direction goes, and Mindless Behavior and all the other bands, I'm all for it, and if there's ever an opportunity to work with them, that'd be great.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

When actors get a bad name for diva behavior - I've never seen it. Because my experience with people who are really famous actors is that they work really hard.

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.