Behavior Quotations | Page 2

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

There is a difference between legitimate issues of character - someone's behavior - and the issue of whether someone who has done something wrong in their life, now because of those mistakes, can't talk about what is the right thing to do.

What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.

There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

My behavior was completely unacceptable. I want everyone to know that I recognize that it is never right to throw a bat and I certainly never intended for the bat to make contact with the umpire.

One of the reasons I'm interested in service recovery is because years ago I was working for the customer service line of a newspaper. When people missed their newspapers, I was the person they called. I understood the situation the same, whether they cursed at me or used a friendly tone of voice. I think it's important to be very clear about what the problem was, the inconvenience it caused you, what you are expecting them to do to recover -- but be kind in your behavior as well.

One of the issues we're going to have to address is institutional culture, which makes it easier for such behavior. Institutions haven't really dealt with these issues in a forthright manner. They're closing their eyes to it, or only opening them slightly.

On the ignition side, human behavior is really what dictates whether we have a fire season.

I would expect there will be some coincident change in consumer behavior.

I would give this Congress a B for achievement, a D for behavior and the overall assessment of incomplete,

Nobody is one asking Western companies to go and lobby the Chinese government to change its behavior. That's not possible. But what we are asking companies to do is change the way in which they respond to Chinese government behavior and the way in which they interact with it, and that they can control.

Nobody ever learns how. The search for human behavior is infinite. You'll never understand it all. I think that's wonderful.

Life is extremely complicated. I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior and alternatives of that behavior.

Like any large city, they're interested in reducing their traffic and improving their environment. People are changing their behavior.

Show your kids that needs and wants are two different things. The best way to teach our kids to be smart consumers - and savvy savers - is to model good behavior for them.

So many times, that moment where you could really make a difference and change behavior is right there in the hospital. If you wait, the person will often recover and go back to that same lifestyle.

Obviously we would like to see those statistics higher. But this is a process that the NCAA member institutions are going through to change behavior and essentially ensure the student athletes, coaches and everyone involved in collegiate athletics understands that academic achievement and academic performance is just as important as athletic performance.

Obviously, we didn't have the intelligence we needed in that particular instance. In some sense, those countries that pursue weapons of mass destruction in secret also learned an important lesson - that there are risks of that kind of behavior and that kind of activity.

One of my impulses in writing is to take people's crazy behavior and try to make order of what sometimes feels chaotic in the past.

One measure is how many of our members will utilize the data available and, ultimately, if there will be a change in behavior at the consumer level.

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No one is really that good at reading the crystal ball. (Dollar-cost averaging) puts in place a pattern of purchasing behavior that in time will average out to be good.

Now there are certain aspects of football that we all know. They are not your typical, average 9-to-5 jobs, but why do we have to get to the point that we have to accept stuff like this? This behavior is not acceptable. Romanowski is a bad guy. He is a jerk every day of the week, and I hated playing against him.

obstructed a law enforcement investigation and otherwise engaged in behavior in violation of the Rules of the House.

Now we recognize we need to spend more time on driver-behavior safety programs. Driver performance is playing a far greater role in contributing to crashes.

Right and wrong will be a part of it. Is this a behavior we ought to protect or we ought to cure? I would say homosexuality is something that ought to be cured.

I have been very disappointed in the behavior of both teams during this series and I would urge the coaches, captains and managers to get their players together and remind them of the importance of playing in a professional manner.

I don't know what they are playing at. They are just making the boy unsettled, and they keep upsetting him. I find Bolton's behavior and what they are doing scandalous. They should stop messing around. The situation is becoming a bit annoying.

If we do see any slowdown in the market or any back-up from rates, the higher end purchaser is the one less likely to change their behavior and Tiffany benefits from that, ... Tiffany clearly has had an amazing run, so far, this year. We've held it for about year and a half now. I don't recommend this level at -- as entry point, but it's a great stock to watch and look for an entry point.

Many of these laws are designed to improve safety for motorists by increasing penalties for unsafe driving behavior.

Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to get to where you want to be.

There are too many stories out there about erratic behavior. You don't want to see a meltdown or some sort of erratic behavior in front of a stern judge.

We're shocked by the allegations of this type of behavior and we're certainly work with the appropriate authorities to provide any information that we might have that might be useful. But our focus will remain on meeting the health needs of inmates.

We're showing for the first time that incidental emotions from one situation can exert a causal effect on economic behavior in other, ostensibly unrelated situations.

I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.

MTV's constituency is probably more accustomed to outlandish behavior than the prime demographic for a Super Bowl audience. Wall Street would look at that (the controversy and any fine) more as a one-time event, not as a change in underlying earnings power.

Since he's been on bond, his behavior has indicated he has not gotten himself in trouble,

Measures of consumer perceptions should be watched carefully for large and drastic moves, but the analyst who relies on small moves for an indication of consumer purchasing behavior is likely to get burned.

Mixing the two stocks in the wild has resulted in the transfer of bad habits from the puppet-reared to the parent-reared birds. All misbehaving birds in the wild should be re-trapped and returned to captivity, since they pose a risk of passing on their bad behavior to birds released in the future.

Modeling a relationship between economic and commercial market indicators, as well as market trends and sentiment, will provide us with a new tool in assessing market behavior in the major commercial real estate sectors. It is being designed as an index to provide early signals of turning points between expansions and slowdowns in commercial real estate activity.

Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behavior and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories.

She did not say the president's childhood in any way caused his behavior, nor does she believe that. I think that she was basically stating some feelings about his childhood, but that they do not excuse his behavior.

She could also testify to bouts of rage, sexual problems and other behavior consistent with steroid use. If he said he didn't use and he knowingly used them, he is in trouble and Bell can help the government's case.

Many are intense, sensitive and stressed by their own and others' high expectations and their ability, interests and behavior may make them vulnerable.

Many of Britain's towns and cities are falling victim to drunk and disorderly behavior at the weekend. We believe that these ads will reinforce the message that the police now have increased powers to deal with this sort of anti-social behavior.

So let's say you realize that you are never going to be a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. person. You're not cut out for that sort of typical work environment. The benefit might be that if you embrace that and say I need to be self-employed or I need to be doing more project-oriented work. Identify the benefits -- I'd be more productive. I'd be happier. The people around me would be happier because my mood would be better. When you identify the benefits of accepting the behavior or habit, you actually give leverage to it and give yourself a better chance of sticking with it.

Since all four of us were educated as physicists, we looked for a mathematical way of describing what was going on. We wanted a model that could capture both the near random character that one sees looking at two cells and the highly structured behavior of the whole group.

Simply telling people to eat less and exercise more is not enough. Decades of tobacco prevention efforts have taught us that focusing on an individual's behavior ignores the fact that we all make choices within a broader social, environmental, and public policy context.

Serb authorities have had an unacceptable behavior for too long with regard to the Kosovo Albanians.

She turned that to some constructive use. Once it happened, it probably made sense to make sure every group saw the same behavior and he cooperated.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.

We met with him again today and expressed our displeasure with his behavior,

Money is 80% behavior, 20% head knowledge. It's what you do, not what you know.

By observing your addictive behaviors, you observe your conditioning. When you observe your conditioning, you're free of it, because you are not your conditioning; you are the observer of your conditioning.

Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate yourself from the past.

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going.

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.

I don't judge people by their theology, I judge them by their behavior

Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior.

The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

Kids know when you are talking at them, when you're not really invested in conversation with them, that's when the attention getting behavior starts.

Kids are bombarded by images of smoking. It is hard to pin any one thing as the cause of something when we are dealing with a behavior this complex.

I can't really comprehend the human being who told you that. It's really kind of subhuman behavior.

Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.

I am deeply dismayed at the athletic director's behavior before the contest, during the contest, after the contest and then after the dust has settled.

I am diagnosed with what's called 'REM behavior disorder.' As far as the disorder goes, there's no cure, but it's going pretty well as far as these things go. I see a sleep doctor, take medication, etc.

I don't think his behavior changes that much, ... It's the way people perceive him that changes.

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.

I expected it to be crazy. I haven't seen one single incident, ... I see worse behavior at an NFL game.

I don't think we ought to make too much of this (dollar spike) but it does represent what we're going to see more of, which is China gradually accommodating its behavior to the wants of globalization and the global marketplace.

If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt bankers' own long-term interests and the economy in general.