Behavior Quotes · Page 48

80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems ... they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.

— Andy Stanley

Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.

— Nir Eyal

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

— Ellie Goulding

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The important thing is that I control my reaction, my behavior, my attitude and my words. What I receive back is not…

— Kate Gosselin

Don't Expect Anything From Life, Expectations Hurt. When You Don't Expect, Every Moment Is A Surprise And Surprise Brings Happiness With It.

— Pacifiersucker

The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will…

— Bill Crawford

Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.

— Timothy Carey

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and…

— David E. Kelley

As a law enforcer, one of the things that I think most about is deterrence. You really want to ensure that firms…

— Lina Khan

The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality.…

— Herbert Marcuse

In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism…

— Cheryl Rainfield

I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or…

— Clare Balding

When spectators and fans say about drunken brawls, violence, and dog fights, "Well, football players are prone to these things - that's…

— Stanton Peele

I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their…

— Harold E. Varmus

If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them…

— Charlie Munger

History has shown that the greater power of the gun is its power to deter. Bear in mind that criminals, by definition,…

— Massad Ayoob

Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly…

— Luc Sante

A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings…

— Jeremy Collier

Crime is based upon need, making money. People sell drugs to make money. But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell…

— Jacque Fresco

Homosexual feelings are controllable. Perhaps there is an inclination or susceptibility to such feelings that is a reality for some and not…

— Dallin H. Oaks

There is a perverse comfort zone to living a small life. For women, that zone has to do with the fact that…

— Marianne Williamson

[Barack] Obama's executive amnesty has been frozen via a stay by a judge on the appellate court. You remember, this is the…

— Rush Limbaugh

The way one behaves and feels as a Dutchman and Dutchwoman is the result of a long development. It is by no…

— Norbert Elias

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

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

— Ralph Nader

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

— Boyd K. Packer

I've just really made sure to stay true to who I am and not let someone else's little behavior make me smaller…

— Ariana Madix

Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.

— Anonymous

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Mark Steyn

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

— Eliot Spitzer

You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior -- especially under pressure.

— Brian Tracy

I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

— Malcolm Gladwell

People need to learn that their actions do affect other people. So be careful what you say and do, its not always…

— Anonymous

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and…

— B. F. Skinner

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

— Nicolas Chamfort

Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

— Alan Rudolph

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

— Marc Morial