Behavior Quotes · Page 35

The issue Fodor writes about is central to the psychology of perception, cognition, and action. It is the central issue for anyone…

— Alvin Liberman

A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to…

— Russell Hornsby

Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect,…

— Garry Kasparov

But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to…

— Anonymous

Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior…

— Octavia Spencer

Her [Hillary Clinton's] husband is running around on her with everything that walks. He's having an affair with Gennifer Flowers, he's having…

— Rush Limbaugh

I wasn't writing, I wasn't drawing, and personality-wise, I was just completely arrogant. I'm not trying to be overly apologetic for my…

— Patti Smith

Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of…

— M. Scott Peck

It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at…

— Twyla Tharp

I think everyone understands when these cycles are disrupted, especially in terms of institutionalized poverty, it's always will be difficult - patterns…

— James Redford

There must be serious consequences for criminal behavior, but when individuals demonstrate a changed lifestyle and a commitment to abandoning the ways…

— Mike Parson

Yes, genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function,…

— Robert Sapolsky

Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior,…

— Frank Zappa

The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that…

— Richard LaGravenese

Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't…

— Michael Crichton

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

— Rand Paul

It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their…

— Frederick Lenz

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but…

— Henri Nouwen

Your behavior is based on your beliefs, and what you do and say, over and over again, helps develop your habits.

— Anonymous

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

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

— Douglas Horton

Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The…

— Sandra Scarr

Are you ready to step out of the prison of memory and conditioned responses into the experience of freedom? If so, then…

— Deepak Chopra

A system of metaphor (pointing to a higher power) that one takes inside oneself as the truth and through its rules one…

— Mason Jennings