Best 941 quotes in «behavior quotes» category

The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will begin to reflect your true identity.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

The most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton is to remind voters of Hillary Clinton's behavior.

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

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.

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.

The Mother Tantra says that if one is not aware in vision, it is unlikely that one will be aware in behavior. If one is not aware in behavior, one is unlikely to be aware in dream. And if one is not aware in dream, then one is unlikely to be aware in the bardo after death.

The only way major change in environmental policy is going to happen, the only way, is if there is a very strong, very active popular movement that demands it and such a movement would be unparalleled because it would be a popular movement that says, "Raise our taxes so that we change our behavior.

The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.

The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what I think are the subgroups of autism.

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.

The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.

There are jus times when you can't let the right thing stand in yo way.

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

There are some that are - REM Behavior Disorder, we'll see some court documented cases. And they really need to have a thorough evaluation with a sleep specialist.

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

There is a perverse comfort zone to living a small life. For women, that zone has to do with the fact that we're less likely to be challenged, we're less likely to be criticized, we're less likely to be called angry or strident, if we simply go along and acquiesce to the prevailing patterns of thought and behavior.

There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment.

There is a Greek word that is called "Praxis" and that means the integration of your beliefs with your behavior.

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

There isn't a single one of us who hasn't harvested either the positive or negative effects of a simple choice of behavior.

There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.

There are wholes, the behavior of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes are themselves determined by the intrinsic nature of the whole. It is the hope of Gestalt theory to determine the nature of such wholes.

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.

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

The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

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

The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles

The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.

The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why do businesses spend millions on TV ads that have no influence?

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.

The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

The thing that has always interested me in the kinds of shows that I do have more to do with the consequences of behavior than the behavior itself. Pulling a trigger and shooting somebody, or dismembering somebody.

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.