Behavior Quotes

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My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table. — Brandon Sanderson
Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. — Hermann Hesse
Of course genes canâ€™t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is… — Steven Pinker
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the… — Neal Stephenson
Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't see much difference… — Michael Crichton
All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem. — Michael Crichton
I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm… — Temple Grandin
For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. — Michael Crichton
But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their… — Michael Crichton
Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten. — Hunter S. Thompson
Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his… — Mircea Eliade
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in… — Robert A. Heinlein
We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates… — Henry Cloud
Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or… — Dalai Lama
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior. — Walter Scott
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a… — Fannie Flagg
I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower — Jacqueline Carey
Because if I smashed anything, Team Jaiden would just get me into a behavior modification program, or maybe some doctor would put be on drugs… — Stefan Petrucha
He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs.… — Joe Hill
I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough… — Jane Green

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