Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
A system is a set of things people, cells, molecules, or whatever interconnected in such a way that they produce their own… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Studios felt like Blu-ray was going to be the next panacea, and so they dumped the prices (of traditional DVDs) and devalued… — Bill Mechanic Copy Share Image
What I mean is, if you look at the behavior of an animal and ask, "Well, why did it do that?" and… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Saving and Helping people is of over importance because even though, you may not know his/her abilities and virtues that person may… — Charles Brown Copy Share Image
Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do,… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know… — Arthur Rock Copy Share Image
You know, people come from cultures all around the world. Many of those cultures, you know, are not terribly successful. You can… — Amy Wax Copy Share Image
It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Political science has long tried to tackle a fundamental question of voter behavior: Do voters choose politicians because those politicians hold views… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Even after the age of 50 it was impossible for me to see my mother as a human being. I felt she… — David Small Copy Share Image
Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The energy you give off based on your beliefs... your emotions... your behavior... the vibrational frequency you give off is what determines… — Darryl Anka Copy Share Image
Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Now... now I am like you... - Repeating (Can't Recall Information) - Self-Destructive (Behavior) - Zombie - NON conclusive Creature” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color,… — James Lankford Copy Share Image
I was so afraid to go out west to my aunt's ranch. But the only choice my mother gave me was to… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly… — Yoshida Shoin Copy Share Image
My view is that friendship permeates human life and is involved in almost everything we think, feel, and do. For that very… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
The world's major religions in the end all want the same thing, even though they were born in different places and circumstances… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The saying in business is that, 'You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.' And one would argue that in order… — Gerald Chertavian Copy Share Image
The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is… — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
The soul journey inward is when we are invited to cast aside beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve us and release… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Valued achievements connect to people at a deeper level—and a deeper level can change behavior that is generally very difficult to change. — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That's why every society on the planet has very definite rules, ideas about how sex should be regulated, how sex should be… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
