Behaviour Quotes · Page 12

There's a wow factor associated with my name. It could be due to my work as well as my behaviour.

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in…

— Peter Singer

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

— Gary Becker

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their…

— Mary-Louise Parker

No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.

— Chris Morris

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding…

— Tony Parsons

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

— George Orwell

“Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages,…

— Steven Levy

Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel…

— Morris Gleitzman

This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without…

— Viktor Schauberger

My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the…

— Stephen Spender

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is…

— Jane Goodall

Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply…

— Will Self

I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra…

— Tony Gilroy

All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural…

— Konrad Lorenz

It is inherently dangerous to allow a country such as Iraq to retain weapons of mass destruction, particularly in light of its…

— Stephen Harper

“Capitalist ideology in general, Zizek maintains, consists precisely in the overvaluing of belief - in the sense of inner subjective attitude -…

— Mark Fisher

“But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take…

— Clarice Lispector

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own…

— Helen Garner

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to…

— A. J. P. Taylor

There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

— Bjork

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

— Lionel Charles Robbins

“Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.

— Anonymous

“I've learned over many decades that people are likeliest to declare their respect when their behavior suggests the opposite.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.

— Mohammad Hamid Ansari

If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's…

— Bridget Riley

“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”

— Samuel Johnson

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

— Barry Levinson

The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.

— Ozzy Osbourne

If you knowingly and willingly embark on criminal behaviour, the consequences of that should be... that you lose some of your benefits…

— Iain Duncan Smith

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

— Stephen Lewis

I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

— Amy Adams

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

— Jorge Garcia

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

— Deepak Chopra

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account…

— Marvin Harris

Don't behave like your heart and mind are strangers to you; they are yours, don't depend on others to understand them, you…

— Anonymous

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or…

— Joseph Wood Krutch