Behaviour Quotes

399 quotes by 342 authors

Anger is active sadness; sadness is inactive anger. They are not two things. Watch your own behaviour. When do you find yourself sad? You find… — Rajneesh
It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour. — Gabor Mate
More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for… — Bertrand Russell
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. — Thomas Nagel
Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of… — Carl Jung
After the events of last week, I'm appalled at the standard Australia seems to be willing to accept in regards to its own behaviour and… — Clementine Ford
The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance gripped… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social… — Tony Blair
If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not. — Moby
For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature. — Giovanni Battista Beccaria
Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals will be more… — Stephen Hawking
I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour — Gary Becker
Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This… — Oliver E. Williamson
Variable behaviour of the sun is an obvious explanation, and there is increasing evidence that Earth's climate responds to changing patterns of solarmagnetic activity. ...… — Nigel Weiss
I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am… — Jeremy Paxman
We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and… — Tony Blair
Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour… — Amartya Sen
The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a… — Kofi Annan
While there are many who would say that the race to the moon was hardly green, many others have noted that the photographs brought back… — John F. Kennedy
Humans remain entirely atmosphere dependent, so there is no choice but to respond to extreme climatic behaviour and its many effects. — Peter Garrett

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