Best 318 quotes in «behaviour quotes» category

You can be humble without compromising your values.

You may have good skills and better knowledge, but it is your attitude that will bring people closer to you.

You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style.

Your approach and response to issues will determine how people will relate and deal with you per time.

A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.

Your character is your conduct.

You're helpless to the behaviour but the effort involved is just unbelievable.

A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural plan of the body and the system of behaviour of a species are parts of the same whole.... Wordsworth is right: there is only one being in possession of weapons which do not grow on his body and of whose working plan, therefore, the instincts of his species know nothing and in the usage of which he has no correspondingly adequate inhibition.

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced and direct response to the physical and social environment; that in most human affairs, more harm than good results from compulsion, top-down direction, bureaucratic planning, pre-ordained curricula, jails, conscription, states.

Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent.

Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behaviour.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.

Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members of the public, and created a breach of the peace and public order.

... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).

But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

Changing behaviours begins with evolving beliefs.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the face's behaviour, immersed in a social process.

Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.

Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.

"Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual- and after all, wha is an individual? ". . . ." We can make a new one with the greatest of ease- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified.

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Gentlemanly, principled, helpful behaviour by older men vis-a-vis young women goes unnoticed, but it deserves real moral credit, and we could use more first-person testimony from the beneficiaries and practitioners about that too.

God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.

I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.