Behavior Quotes · Page 43

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

— Stephen Covey

To a certain extent, people's behavior in a campaign is generally a reflection of how they would act in office.

— John Hickenlooper

I'll start treating you like a princess as soon as you start acting like one.

— Isaiah Harden

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just…

— Alice Temperley

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

— George Eliot

I am embarrassed by some of my behavior and no matter what I say or do I can't make everyone happy. I…

— Jill Zarin

“‎Does anyone truly understand females? ...Their behavior is opposite of everything in the natural order and flies in the face of logic.”

— Mary Lydon Simonsen

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

— Lin Yutang

I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude…

— Edgar Ramirez

I want to restore U.S. leadership within a rules-based liberal world order that collectively holds nations accountable for their illiberal behavior, whether…

— Joe Sestak

If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt…

— Ben Bernanke

Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of…

— Alfie Kohn

It carried quite a wallop. I have all the classic symptoms. Reflection. Where am I now? Where have I come from? What's…

— Keanu Reeves

You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components -…

— Geoffrey West

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of…

— Pope Paul VI

To learn to be charming is fairly easy - you can teach somebody to be charming and to learn human emotions -…

— Martha Stout

“Trying to change our habits demands effort and effort takes energy - which is a cost. And our brains constantly look for…

— Peter Bevelin

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

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

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

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

— Dalai Lama

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

— Donald Rumsfeld

I've been harassed or on the receiving end of sexist and inappropriate behavior almost every place I've ever worked.

— Kirsten Powers

Most efforts to approximate normal human behavior in software tend to be creepy or annoying.

— Jenna Wortham

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

— Guy Debord

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

— Anonymous

Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results.

— Robin Sharma

When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of…

— John P. Kotter

People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.

— David Cobley

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

— Cesare Pavese

We never know the issues others may be facing, and it isn't up to us to judge actions and behavior.

— Stacy Keibler

Let your *need* guide you behavior. *Supress* your instinct to lead... Pursue Rabbit!

— Cheshire Cat

The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior.

— James Cook

“Intentions are often hidden inside patterns of behavior. Time is a good indicator of patterns.”

— Reena Doss