Best 941 quotes in «behavior quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.

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 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.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me

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

I went to Congress to change the policies of our country. I did not go to change the behaviors of members of Congress.

I would like to be remembered as one of the individuals who founded, ideologically and practically, cognitive behavior therapy and who pioneered multimodal or integrated therapy.

I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself.

Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.

Leadership is the behavior each of us exerts when we take responsibility for our actions and their consequences.

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

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

Let's have some boilerplate language that accurately describes the candidate that we're talking about. If readers are unfamiliar, here are the descriptions of his behavior and here are the links to that behavior that is described.

Let us all improve our personal behavior and redouble our efforts to protect our loved ones and our environment from the onslaught of pornography.

Let your *need* guide you behavior. *Supress* your instinct to lead... Pursue Rabbit!

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

Life is unpredictable when you get non-standard behavior patterns.

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

Like me or don't like me, I'm not going to adjust my behavior, just to gain a few more positive fans.

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

Look at your goals. Look at your behavior. Does your behavior match your goals?

Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.

Love is a context, not a behavior.

Many women hear the word "feminine" and feel like it's a noose around their neck. "Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act," kind of thing.

Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.

Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior.

Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!

Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepressants.

Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.

More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.

More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

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

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

My behavior is humiliating.