Best 941 quotes in «behavior quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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 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 wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

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

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

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

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

To become "memorable" do things that are somewhat unexpected. Dress, or talk, in ways that draw attention. And mostly, don't follow all the "rule for behavior" so closely.

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.

This hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different.

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.

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.

True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.

To date, no convincing evidence for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) has been discovered. And recent global climate behavior is not consistent with AGW model predictions.

Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.

Unfair and unkind behavior in exchange for your loving efforts is the rule rather than the exception

Truly different behaviors require truly distinct situations.

Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.

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.

Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.

Values must be demonstrated through behaviors, but they are truly significant when they represent the beliefs of an entire organization.

Valued achievements connect to people at a deeper level—and a deeper level can change behavior that is generally very difficult to change.

Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior.

We also have to acknowledge that there are Millennials who don't know of the Clintons of the nineties, and we've always suspected that once they found out that... I mean, Bill Clinton's behavior was celebrated by Democrats in the nineties. Even by the feminazis!

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.