Behavior Quotes · Page 59

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

— Chris Hayes

“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner…

— Jeanette Winterson

The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.

— April Gornik

We will use the actions of others to decide on proper behavior for ourselves, especially when we view those others as similar…

— Robert Cialdini

The True Test of Character Of A Person, Is Not How Much We Know How To Do, But How We Behave When…

— Pacifiersucker

There are absolutely ways to manipulate behavior, because our behavior is endlessly being manipulated by the world around us.

— Robert Sapolsky

Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are…

— Stephen King

I'm always amazed at how consistent people find me and my behavior, when in fact I do feel different all the time.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

The best thing you can do for yourself is to accept other people’s behavior and the choices they make. You may not…

— Jennifer O'Neill

There's a saying that goes, 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.' OK. How about, 'Nobody should throw stones'? That's…

— Demetri Martin

The major problem with most attempts to predict a specific outcome, such as interviews, is decontextualization: the attempt takes place in a…

— Maria Konnikova

But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his…

— Albert Einstein

I guess I feel very protective of the 'Housewives' brand and want fans to know that I do not condone some of…

— Jill Zarin

“People who confuse social behavior with manners naturally think of it as something that can be donned and doffed, a fashion that…

— Nick Joaquín

You don't need to wait to hear the 'apology' to forgive. It may never come. Let forgiveness be a 'gift' that is…

— Ash Sweeney

“Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed…

— Nwabudike Morgan

“When possible, try to reward a child's good behavior, instead of punishing their bad behavior. Perhaps give them surprise IOUs for an…

— Nancy Lavoie

Prozac makes you feel better by disabling those crippling doubts and inhibitions that are the hallmarks of despondency, but it often does…

— Norah Vincent

There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living…

— Marcel Proust

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want…

— Noam Chomsky

“Genes have plenty to do with behavior. Even more appropriately, all behavioral traits are affected to some degree by genetic variability.65 They…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and…

— John Henrik Clarke

You've got to have a vision and an intention and that will guide what you do. I call it devotion. Ask yourself,…

— Iyanla Vanzant

In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore…

— B. F. Skinner

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

— Lynne Tillman

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

— Michel de Montaigne

What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.

— Drew Pinsky

I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.

— Michel de Montaigne

Drunken behavior will not be tolerated, except by those who are being hilarious.

— Demetri Martin

Give your behavior and conduct more importance than how you look, what you're dressed in and everything else that's superficial in appearance.

— Mufti Ismail Menk

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

— Ann Dowd

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to…

— Robert Duvall

I know I have a fairly strong feminine side. I find myself really distanced from male behavior.

— John Malkovich

A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as…

— Rebecca Goldstein

I am embarrassed by some of my behavior and no matter what I say or do I can't make everyone happy. I…

— Jill Zarin

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

— George Eliot

“‎Does anyone truly understand females? ...Their behavior is opposite of everything in the natural order and flies in the face of logic.”

— Mary Lydon Simonsen

I've been harassed or on the receiving end of sexist and inappropriate behavior almost every place I've ever worked.

— Kirsten Powers

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

— Lin Yutang

Most efforts to approximate normal human behavior in software tend to be creepy or annoying.

— Jenna Wortham