Behavior Quotes · Page 35

And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this...this--' 'School?

— Rick Riordan

“We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.”

— Robinson Jeffers

There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment.

— Marion D. Hanks

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.

— Malcolm Gladwell

True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the…

— Nicholas Lore

I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my…

— Beth Moore

Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

— Cesar Millan

Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.

— Carly Fiorina

Keith Olbermann is trying to make a business out of destroying Bill O'Reilly. He's done certain things to Bill O'Reilly that I…

— Rupert Murdoch

When I won the Cesar, I was, first of all, an actor. I have to say, it's humanity first. That's the future.…

— Omar Sy

Like neurotics obsessed with amputating their own healthy limbs, middle-class blacks concerned with 'keeping it real' are engaging in gratuitously self-destructive and…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“How can there ever be any serious expectation of living in paradise, if one cannot behave appropriately, or be trusted to respect…

— Mango Wodzak

As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that…

— Eknath Easwaran

Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where…

— Charles Simonyi

One of my favorite patterns is the tendency for the markets to move from relative lows to relative highs and vice versa…

— Jack D. Schwager

I did a lot of work with early 20th century attitudes, the kind of superficial notions and behavior that prompt people who…

— James Vance

I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn't have a TV, but television didn't teach you everything. Asking for candy…

— David Sedaris

[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal…

— Liza Mundy

“He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly…

— Irving Stone

I'm not going to look back. 'Don't look back, something might be gaining on you.' I don't have anything specific in mind.…

— Richard Cotovsky

“I went to bed without reading, instead staring out my window with the curtains drawn, wondering about boys. Why did they behave…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

If you caught your kid raising cats in tiny boxes, forcing them to live in their own feces without clean air or…

— Dan Piraro

My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.

— John Spence

Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.

— Anthony Kennedy

Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior.

— Hetty King

“We tend to learn from bad examples, but we should take care not to use bad examples as a rationalization of our…

— Cathy Burnham Martin

Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.

— Seth Klarman

Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

I've made it pretty clear that I can't legislate or dictate proper behavior. You can't. You do everything that you can.

— Kim Reynolds

nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.

— John Henry Holland

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most…

— William Shakespeare

“Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.”

— Christian Baloga

Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

— Ellis Paul Torrance

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

— Patricia Heaton

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

— Mason Cooley

It is only when you're lying to yourself or hating some aspect of yourself that you'll get an emotional charge from someone…

— Debbie Ford

Learning is incomplete until their is a change in the behavior of the student.

— Chydy Njere

If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us…

— Richard Rosen