Behavior Quotes · Page 47

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

— Albert Bandura

What we now consider to be radical behavior was to early believers nothing more than a sincere attempt to live obediently.

— Greg Laurie

Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning…

— Helen Fisher

Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place."

— Peter Block

“You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior”

— Daniel Kahneman

I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

— Karin Slaughter

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

— Harry Allen Overstreet

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

— Rand Paul

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior…

— Josef Albers

Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to…

— Robert Nozick

At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as…

— Stephen Fry

Judges cannot - nor should they try to - align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge.…

— Amy Coney Barrett

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that…

— Sarah Ferguson

People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for…

— Byron Katie

Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell…

— James Surowiecki

In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's [sexual] affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II,…

— Warren Farrell

The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the…

— Rick Santorum

When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it…

— Robert Greene

I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who…

— Donald Rumsfeld

There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They…

— Dalai Lama

Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of…

— A. P. Herbert

...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that…

— Aldous Huxley

If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities…

— Robert H. Schuller

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society…

— Nikolas Schreck

“If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don’t be surprised when it dies.”

— Steve Maraboli

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

— Seth Klarman

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

— Denis Waitley

“Human behavior is influenced more strongly by the rules we have about how things are supposed to work than by our actual…

— Susan M. Orsillo

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so…

— Andre Norton

Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.

— Judith Orloff

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both…

— Darin Strauss

If you're unhappy with another person's behavior, pray about it and be honest and open in dealing with it in the right…

— David Jeremiah

Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet…

— Victor Hugo

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

— Ashley Montagu

I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

I'm not a poster boy for good behavior and recovery in Hollywood, I'm just a guy who knows he has a lot…

— Robert Downey, Jr

If the criticism is unjustified, then we are rewarded for our patience and good behavior in not retaliating.

— Anonymous

RATIONALIZING WRONG BEHAVIOR ISN'T SOLVING THE PROBLEM BUT ONLY BREEDING ACCEPTANCE FOR DIVISION!

— Anne' McMillion

Our actions, behavior, speech and for that matter anything that we do should strictly comply with our culture.

— P. T. Usha