Behavior Quotes
2056 quotes by 1425 authors
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I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.
— Robert Metcalfe
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Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.
— G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.
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My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down.
— Chris Zylka
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It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of…
— Vaclav Havel
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Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label…
— William Greider
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Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity…
— Rollo May
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There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
— Derek Bok
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Religion is behavior and not mere belief.
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite…
— Lewis Nkosi
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The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV, period.
— Randall Wright
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The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why…
— Randall Wright
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Modern dynamical systems theory has a relatively short history. It begins with Poincare (of course)... [to whom] a global understanding of the gross behavior of…
— Robert L. Devaney
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We are more than our problems. Even if our problem is our own behavior, the problem is not who we are-it's what we did. It's…
— Melody Beattie
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Babies are equipped at birth with a number of instinctive reflexes and behavior patterns that cause them to spend their first several years trying to…
— Dave Barry
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Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior.
— John Mellencamp
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But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes…
— Benjamin Lee Whorf
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A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.
— Bertrand Russell
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Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all…
— Tim Cahill
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Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of,…
— Willard Gaylin
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A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a…
— Joyce Cary
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