Behavior Quotes · Page 52

Whether it's intentional or not, Trump regularly makes news for unprecedented and nonpresidential behavior.

— Jason Kander

The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.

— William S. Burroughs

When people can say to themselves - "What I'm doing is justified," there is little chance of their modifying a behavior.

— Stanton Peele

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

— Jeannette Walls

At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my…

— Kris Carr

Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.

— Stanley Milgram

Don't behave like your heart and mind are strangers to you; they are yours, don't depend on others to understand them, you…

— Anonymous

If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such…

— Albert Einstein

From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence.…

— Timothy Leary

The vast majority of women who marry still take their husband's name. And I'm not vilifying that behavior! But that's a pattern…

— Rebecca Traister

I think that people might watch reality television or what they see played out on media outlets and get ideas. We might…

— Laura Wasser

As a community, Silicon Valley must adopt principles that reflect our abhorrence toward sexual harassment - and it is these principles that…

— Meena Harris

The only way to enjoy the fun of catching people behaving disgustingly is to have children. One has to keep having them,…

— Judith Martin

Look at all those American preachers who got caught with their pants down. They say one thing and they are doing another.…

— Steve Coogan

[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were…

— Dian Fossey

One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware…

— Thomas Lickona

Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with. Surrendered people understand that they can't always change…

— Judith Orloff

We can't use the word normal anymore because it's sort of come to be politically incorrect, because normal implies a classification, and…

— Darold Treffert

A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the…

— Gabor Mate

The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of…

— Charlie Munger

“The child has learned to predict the dog’s behavior and no longer finds the pup quite as entertaining. By now, the child’s…

— Nir Eyal

I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing…

— Willem Dafoe

To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he…

— B. F. Skinner

Men in all societies possess the biological equipment to remove their hats or shoes, but it is the birth within a particular…

— Peter Farb

The formula is simple - do more of what is working, do less of what isn't, and try on new behaviors to…

— Jack Canfield

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

— Nancy Friday

“They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

— Stephen Covey

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.

— Emily Post

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

— Alice Walker

“The universe makes it possible. Your mindset makes it probable. Your behavior makes it reality.”

— Steve Maraboli

Understanding the animals' instinct is much much easier than to understand the human beings' (pseudo) intelligence!

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.

— Neale Donald Walsch

You can laugh at my behavior that will never bother me, say the devil is my savior, but I don't pay no…

— Roger Hodgson

Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes?

— Laura Mullen

Be Not Angry For That You Cannot Make Others As You Wish Them, Since You Cannot Even Make Yourself As You Wish…

— Pacifiersucker

With genuine love and compassion, another person's appearance or behavior has no affect on your attitude.

— Dalai Lama

Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there.

— Charlie Kirk

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be…

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau