Behavior Quotes · Page 61

Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.

— Millicent Fenwick

The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

— Lawrence S. Kubie

Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor.

— Tony Dungy

Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior.

— Anonymous

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

— Anonymous

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

— Joyce Meyer

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.

— W. Richard Stevens

Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much…

— Gary Becker

White people get to do that all of the time. They get to engage in bad behavior, even felonious behavior, but they…

— Yance Ford

Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is when it is actually just reckless,…

— Jeff Flake

Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male…

— Peter R. Grant

Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in…

— Marshall Goldsmith

Hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different. It's okay to stand out for whatever reason.…

— Rose McGowan

I will say to China what needs to be said, including on its effort to unilaterally change the status quo by force…

— Fumio Kishida

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something…

— Paul Rudd

Any move by Israel to end the conflict with the Palestinians by unilateral moves - such as annexing the West Bank, delinking…

— Richard A. Falk

“To begin with, people radically change their behavior when they know they are being watched. They will strive to do that which…

— Anonymous

By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with…

— Jonah Goldberg

Some of my favorite photos from the old days are of people who maybe didn't know how to smile. Maybe smiling in…

— Ransom Riggs

People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are…

— Dale Jamieson

It no longer makes sense to speak of "feeding problems" or "sleep problems" or "negative behavior" is if they were distinct categories,…

— Selma Fraiberg

Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter…

— Dennis Altman

The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson…

— Jonathan Haidt

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

— Richard King

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Israel's [as well as our] enjoyment of the land is contingent on their behavior. Blessings or cruses lie before them; the choice…

— Max Anders

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

— Philip Yancey

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

— J. J. Abrams

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

— George McGovern

Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed

— Albert Bandura

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

— Erich Fromm

We are much better able to evaluate someone else's behavior than we are our own.

— Anonymous

We seem to be the only software company for girls that is pushing science and getting away from stereotypical behavior.

— Judith Love Cohen

The more we dwell on the negative, the more negative energy we create. And the smaller we behave, the smaller our world…

— Kris Carr

The question is not whether but how do the actions of a given gene influence some interesting aspect of behavior.

— Jeffrey C. Hall

My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and…

— Andy Dunn

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

— Mary McCarthy

“Having a pleasant time can extend a long period of time to have a fun time.”

— Travis Polso

When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from…

— Gichin Funakoshi