Best 941 quotes in «behavior quotes» category

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

I'm the ultimate organizer! My major at Stanford was "Organizational Behavior" so I love to multi-task and stay extra busy.

I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.

I'm very eclectic in terms of what I like, what I read, what I watch, my own consumer behavior.

I'm very interested in animal behavior, and the relationship of human beings to other animal behavior.

Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

In a radio interview [Ted] Cruz compared [Donald]Trump`s behavior to schoolyard children throwing taunts at each other, vowing not to take part.

Increasing your repertoire has the advantage that you don't have to give up enjoying what you already like: it is always easier to add new behaviors than to deny your deepest desires.

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

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.

In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald.

In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.

In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

In short-to overstate the point only slightly-because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else's, and in many circumstances actually less so.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

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

In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

I started to call myself a "rational therapist" in January 1955; later I used the term "rational emotive." Now I call myself a "rational emotive behavior therapist." But from the start, I always included philosophic techniques as well as experiential, emotional and behavioral techniques.

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.

I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home.

It is easier to recognize the quality of leadership in the behavior of their followers than it is in the behavior of the leader.

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

I think that unlike W Bush who was an actual evangelical and sincerely so (my family knew the Bush family), of course Trump will disappoint when it comes to evangelicals. I'm not talking about personal behavior but policy.

I think the Russians have played now for some time the role of providing cover for Bashar al-Assad's behavior. The alternative explanation that the Russians put forth is simply not plausible.

I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.

It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.

It is only when you're lying to yourself or hating some aspect of yourself that you'll get an emotional charge from someone else's behavior.

It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies. Having defined their attributes and prescribed their behavior, we are hard pressed to perceive the implications of our formulas.

It's easier to fall back into old behaviors when you come back to a place where you were a shorter person.

It's a whole lot more productive to be in problem-solving mode than it is to be in behavior modification mode.

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

It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed.

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always a study of human behavior because if we just demonize it, it becomes unreal.