Behavior Quotes · Page 57

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

— Russell L. Ackoff

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

— Thomas Mann

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

— Nicolas Chamfort

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and…

— B. F. Skinner

People need to learn that their actions do affect other people. So be careful what you say and do, its not always…

— Anonymous

Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

— Marc Morial

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

— Alan Rudolph

The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do…

— Steven Pinker

The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and…

— Jeanette Winterson

These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and…

— Leland Yee

To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user…

— Jakob Nielsen

“Do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth…

— Steve Goodier

You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities…

— Jerry Garcia

We need a feminist movement that is robust enough to survive women who have preyed on others without trying to justify their…

— Bari Weiss

...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the…

— Andy Grundberg

When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't…

— Matthieu Ricard

We need to first clearly establish what our modern rules for behavior are and make sure those are clearly understood and communicated.…

— Sara Gideon

Each of us has a network of emotional and logical associations that is unique to us. Activate one mode of the association,…

— Maria Konnikova

You should prepare to follow the program for 90 days. Why? Because behavioral research indicates that it takes 90 days to prepare…

— John C. Norcross

Savant syndrome is not a disorder in the same way as autism is a disorder or dementia is a disorder. Savant syndrome…

— Darold Treffert

I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant…

— Ashley Judd

Having lawyers who can set aside their own personal beliefs about their client's alleged behavior or their client's propensity to commit crimes…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges…

— Joseph Story

With a Trump administration we don't know enough yet to make predictions, but if past behavior is any indication, I am not…

— Mariana Mazzucato

There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.

— Greg L. Bahnsen

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

— Boyd K. Packer

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

— Ralph Nader

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

— Robert A. Heinlein

Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.

— Anonymous

I've just really made sure to stay true to who I am and not let someone else's little behavior make me smaller…

— Ariana Madix

I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

— Malcolm Gladwell

You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior -- especially under pressure.

— Brian Tracy

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

— Eliot Spitzer

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

— Mark Steyn

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

— Ellie Goulding

Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.

— Nir Eyal

Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.

— Timothy Carey

The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will…

— Bill Crawford

Don't Expect Anything From Life, Expectations Hurt. When You Don't Expect, Every Moment Is A Surprise And Surprise Brings Happiness With It.

— Pacifiersucker