Behavior Quotes · Page 34

“We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.”

— Robinson Jeffers

There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment.

— Marion D. Hanks

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I think the key difference between the web and print medium is, on the web or any digital medium, you're dealing with…

— Khoi Vinh

It's always important for me as an actor to reflect human behavior for a sense of reality.

— John Spencer

There's a lot of middle school behavior in Washington, D.C. I look at that and I say, 'I've seen that before,' it…

— James Lankford

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

— Thomas Sowell

I will not tolerate bad behavior from children, so why would I tolerate it from grown adults?

— Jill Zarin

I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones,…

— Noah Baumbach

It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from…

— Melody Beattie

To date, no convincing evidence for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) has been discovered. And recent global climate behavior is not consistent with…

— Richard Courtney

There's a saying that goes, 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.' OK. How about, 'Nobody should throw stones'? That's…

— Demetri Martin

The best thing you can do for yourself is to accept other people’s behavior and the choices they make. You may not…

— Jennifer O'Neill

“People who confuse social behavior with manners naturally think of it as something that can be donned and doffed, a fashion that…

— Nick Joaquín

You don't need to wait to hear the 'apology' to forgive. It may never come. Let forgiveness be a 'gift' that is…

— Ash Sweeney

But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his…

— Albert Einstein

I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a…

— Jack Nicholson

I believe that to knowingly commit actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the extreme. I call upon you to…

— Moby

And last, we must bear in mind that the relationships between perception, thought, emotion, and behavior are neither automatic nor consistent. In…

— Hanne Blank

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our…

— Anonymous

“This concept upends the way most people think about their subjective experience of life. We tend to place a lot of emphasis…

— Cal Newport

At a glance, addiction, sex work, mad passion, and all forms of extreme behavior might look like pushing or trying to obliterate…

— Melissa Febos

'Courtney' is a more punk-rock kids' book. It has this precious veneer that Courtney's terrible behavior trashes. And it's basically about how…

— Ted Naifeh

In daily practice, the word brand stands as a surrogate for the word reputation. In fact, your brand acts just like a…

— Jim Mullen

It's your attitude towards people and situations that will be remembered, and your attitude will determine how the world perceives you.

— Julandie Scholtz

“From our behavior, we obtain certain results, and these results reinforce our beliefs.”

— David W. Earle LPC

Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

— Ellis Paul Torrance

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

— Mason Cooley

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

— Patricia Heaton

“Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.”

— Christian Baloga

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most…

— William Shakespeare

It is only when you're lying to yourself or hating some aspect of yourself that you'll get an emotional charge from someone…

— Debbie Ford

Learning is incomplete until their is a change in the behavior of the student.

— Chydy Njere

I've made it pretty clear that I can't legislate or dictate proper behavior. You can't. You do everything that you can.

— Kim Reynolds

Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.

— Seth Klarman

Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior.

— Hetty King

“We tend to learn from bad examples, but we should take care not to use bad examples as a rationalization of our…

— Cathy Burnham Martin

Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.

— Anthony Kennedy

Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.

— John Henry Holland