Behavior Quotes

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If we do not control our minds with our Buddha nature, do not practice seriously, are not honest to ourselves and do not examine our… — Ching Hai
Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change. — Virginia H. Pearce
When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go… — Dean Ornish
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. — Maxwell Maltz
Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor. — Tony Dungy
The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising… — William Hardy McNeill
Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior. — Warren Buffett
These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and behavior; increase antisocial… — Leland Yee
The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of… — Rushworth Kidder
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. — Logan Pearsall Smith
The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual,… — Max Stirner
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the… — William Shakespeare
We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see… — Elise M. Boulding
The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions. — Seth Klarman
I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot… — Viktor E. Frankl
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It… — B.F. Skinner
That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior. — B.F. Skinner
It can be argued that rapists deserve to be raped, that mutilators deserve to be mutilated. Most societies, however, refrain from responding in this way… — Stephen Bright
The natural inclination of man is to rely solely upon himself and to ignore the purpose of his existence as well as his relationship to… — Delbert L. Stapley

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