Behavior Quotes
2056 quotes by 1425 authors
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Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all…
— Howard Zinn
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Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior…
— Anne Rice
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Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the…
— Buck Brannaman
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As a rider, you must slowly and methodically show your horse what is appropriate. You also have to discourage what's inappropriate, not by making the…
— Buck Brannaman
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everyone - you included - is on her best behavior in the beginning of a relationship. Sometimes little quirks turn out to be big ones,…
— Nicholas Sparks
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It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure…
— Terence McKenna
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Still, they were two thorns from the same thistle. Their tactics in terrorizing innocent ladies were identical. Their behavior was downright sinful, but what made…
— Julie Garwood
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Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
— Andy Rooney
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If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.
— Carol Plum-Ucci
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Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I'm pleased to see that the cab is cluttered with cough drop wrappers and empty milk bottles and bits of mud-smeared newspapers made brittle by…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.
— Louise Rennison
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You cannot "love" a dog out of her bad behavior, just as you can't "love" a criminal into stopping his crimes.
— Cesar Millan
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Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather…
— Holly Black
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I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer,…
— Anthony Kiedis
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Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.
— Charles Stanley
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People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined…
— Atul Gawande
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To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in…
— Mircea Eliade
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Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal…
— Glenn Greenwald
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