Behavior Quotes

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Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's… — Lauren Mackler
I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong… — Anne Sweeney
At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior? — Dan Gelber
In the deep jungles of Africa, a traveler was making a long trek. Coolies had been engaged from a tribe to carry the loads. The… — Lettie Cowman
Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce. — Albert Bandura
Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children,. — Sam Brownback
The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place… — Emily Oster
To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless. — Henry Cloud
You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person. — Kelly Williams Brown
I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a close societal connection,… — Criss Jami
For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no… — Jean de la Bruyere
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime.… — Clarence Darrow
Whatever behavior you've experienced from people in the past, expect them to do it again and again and again. — Merrill Markoe
I was always apologizing for yesterday's behavior and I got tired of it. I feel it's good being straight. As I did when I first… — Ozzy Osbourne
Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that… — Edward Norton
I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people… — Steve Coogan
Look at all those American preachers who got caught with their pants down. They say one thing and they are doing another. I try to… — Steve Coogan
People associate clothes with actual behavior, and it's kind of crazy. If you get shot in some Levi's you don't go after Levi's. It's not… — Ice Cube
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love… — Michel Foucault

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