Best 941 quotes in «behavior quotes» category

I have found in my experience that expediency, whether it is practical or not, is an unreliable guide for behavior. Human behavior must be guided by a higher principle. Practicality has its place but only within a framework of values, which all men of good will share.

I have generally not responded to sexism if it's about me. And I have responded if it's about somebody else, because if women in general are being degraded, are being dismissed, then I can respond in a way that demonstrates I'm not taking it personally but I'm really serious about rejecting that kind of behavior.

I have friends in politics who really put the friendship to the test through their behavior.

I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

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

I'm always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.

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

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

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

Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

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

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

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

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

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

In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

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 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.

Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.