Best 941 quotes in «behavior quotes» category

The goals of content are consumption, then behavior. The goals of social are participation, then behavior.

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior.

The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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 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 a Greek word that is called "Praxis" and that means the integration of your beliefs with your 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 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 is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment.

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'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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.