Behavior Quotes · Page 30

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

— Richard King

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

— Philip Yancey

Israel's [as well as our] enjoyment of the land is contingent on their behavior. Blessings or cruses lie before them; the choice…

— Max Anders

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

— J. J. Abrams

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

— George McGovern

Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed

— Albert Bandura

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

— Erich Fromm

We are much better able to evaluate someone else's behavior than we are our own.

— Anonymous

Human behavior is an enormously complex set of things, and that mixture of underlying things is different for different people, so it's…

— Vivienne Ming

In Genesis, it is stated God walked on Earth. He was there on the level. After watching human behavior, he ascended having…

— Bill Cosby

For the record, someone will ALWAYS say that you are too big, too thin, too lean, too fat, too whatever. In my…

— Jamie Eason

Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much…

— Judith Martin

Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed,…

— R. D. Laing

It is really intolerable that we can say only one thing at a time; for social behavior displays many features at the…

— George C. Homans

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

S&M is just a set of practices that get classified as a single category, when more accurately they are a part of…

— Melissa Febos

“We can achieve a sort of control under which the controlled, though they are following a code much more scrupulously than was…

— B.F. Skinner

Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are…

— Bill Bonner

The term revolution means: a sudden, radical, and complete change from the way things are normally done. I love that definition because…

— Joyce Meyer

In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder…

— Ray Bradbury

Weekly $25,000 shopping binges at Barney's and "high end" boutiques for clothes I barely wore were the norm. So were lavish meals…

— Andy Behrman

“But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatics? The answer is simple:…

— Melanie Joy

Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and…

— Walter Hilton

Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that…

— Albert Bandura

The more we dwell on the negative, the more negative energy we create. And the smaller we behave, the smaller our world…

— Kris Carr

We seem to be the only software company for girls that is pushing science and getting away from stereotypical behavior.

— Judith Love Cohen

I'm very disciplined, but the one thing that I have addictive behavior about is the Internet.

— Dani Shapiro

We always complain about others but MOSTLY people's behavior towards us is a mirror image of our own actions.

— Ash Sweeney

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

— Wendell Berry

What our behavior is in life decides the directions our soul will travel, the paths it will move on, the new worlds…

— Anonymous

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can…

— Petra Kelly

A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was never born unfriendly or a rude person, your actions, attitude or behavior towards me made me who I am to…

— Lawrence Mudau

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

— F. F. Bruce

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that…

— Melody Beattie

It is easier to recognize the quality of leadership in the behavior of their followers than it is in the behavior of…

— Kevin Lowe

The most important thing parents can do, although it's not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want…

— Angela Duckworth

“When the mind is not spoilt, the speech is not spoilt, the conduct is not spoilt, that is absolute humility [param vinaya].”

— Dada Bhagwan

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which…

— Bertrand Russell

I can't control what everyone else does, I can't control anybody else's behavior, but I can control mine.

— Shaunie O'Neal