Quotes on Behavior

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

Author: Madeleine Albright

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.

Author: Howard Barker

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

Author: John Barlow

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

Author: Peter Bart

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

Author: Gary Becker

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

Author: Vinoba Bhave

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

Author: John Boorman

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

Author: John Carmack

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

Author: James Conant

You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did.

Author: Robert Creeley

Spry is not a look, spry is behavior.

Author: Robert Culp

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Author: James Dean

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Author: Emily Dickinson

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.

Author: Paul Dirac

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

Author: Larry Elder

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.

Author: Albert Ellis

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

Author: Sally Field

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

Author: William Friedkin

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

Author: Thomas Friedman

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.

Author: Willard Gaylin

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Author: Johann Goethe

When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.

Author: Temple Grandin

The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.

Author: Temple Grandin

Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.

Author: Peter Grant

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

Author: Andrew Greeley

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.

Author: Garrett Hardin

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

Author: Henry Haskins

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

Author: Vernon Howard

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.

Author: Brion James

Your behavior is based on your beliefs, and what you do and say, over and over again, helps develop your habits.

Author: Darren Johnson

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Author: Rosabeth Kanter

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

Author: Maynard Keenan

If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.

Author: Serge Lang

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

Author: Robert Ludlum

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.

Author: Murray Mann

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

Author: Mary McCarthy

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Author: George Meredith

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

Author: Myriam Miedzian

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Author: Moliere

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.

Author: Roy Moore

Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

Author: Roger Mudd

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.

Author: Tim Murphy

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

Author: Thomas Nashe

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

Author: Bob Nelson

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

Author: Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Author: Ignacy Paderewski

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Author: M. Peck

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.

Author: Jean-Marie Pen

I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.

Author: John Phillips

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

Author: Kenneth Pike

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

Author: Kenneth Pike

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

Author: Arthur Rock

The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.

Author: David Rose

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.

Author: Laura Schlessinger

It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable.

Author: Debbie Schultz

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

Author: Logan Smith

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.

Author: George Stephanopoulos

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

Author: George Stigler

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

Author: Julia Stiles

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Author: Jeffrey Tate

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

Author: Gene Tierney

You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

Author: Linus Torvalds

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

Author: A. Vogt

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

Author: Rick Wagoner

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

Author: Jessica Walter

Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

Author: John Walters

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

Author: Jeanette Winterson

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.

Author: Will Wright

I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.

Author: Michael Zaslow

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Author: Philip Zimbardo

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

Author: Philip Zimbardo

Let your actions speak louder than your words, for true character is revealed in the choices we make.

Author: Susan Johnson

Let your actions speak louder than your words, and your impact will be deafening.

Author: Sophia Nguyen

Character is revealed not in what one says, but in what one does.

Author: Julia Martinez

Your beliefs don't make you a better person, your behaviors do.

Author: Samantha Evans

Actions speak louder than words, but intentions shape the soul.

Author: Gabriella Martinez

Patience is not simply the ability to wait, it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Author: Ethan Hawke

The highest form of intelligence is the ability to observe without judging.

Author: Sophia Liu

It is not the circumstances that define us, but rather our responses to them.

Author: Samantha Stevenson