Behavior Quotes

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The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. — Malcolm Gladwell
The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege dose not change… — Spencer W. Kimball
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil. — Dan Simmons
If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead. — Anthony Swofford
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics. — Stephen King
...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be… — Aldous Huxley
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses… — Jim Harrison
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter.… — Terence McKenna
The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions… — Herbert Marcuse
It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of him or herself… — James W. Loewen
Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed. — Anita Brookner
Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish. — Thomas Szasz
The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases… — Chuck Palahniuk
It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one… — Robert A. Heinlein
My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation. — John Waters
Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for… — Jillian Michaels
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social… — Malcolm Gladwell
Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to… — James Hillman
The great news is that God knows everything about you, both good and bad, and He still loves you and values you unconditionally. God does… — Joel Osteen

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