Behaviour Quotes
399 quotes by 342 authors
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Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it…
— Karl Popper
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This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without meaning or foundation,…
— Viktor Schauberger
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Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me…
— Wendy O. Williams
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Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a…
— Brian Sutton-Smith
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A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which…
— Peter Brook
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Condemning all women in order to help some misguided men get over their foolish behaviour is tantamount to denouncing fire, which is a vital and…
— Christine de Pizan
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There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with…
— Tony Blair
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'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart. You listen for…
— Stephen Covey
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Controversial daily radio host. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might…
— Michael Savage
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are…
— Fanny Burney
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Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important.…
— Chris Argyris
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There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal description you create…
— Moshe Feldenkrais
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Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is…
— Thom Mayne
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Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine…
— Alan Turing
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In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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It is inherently dangerous to allow a country such as Iraq to retain weapons of mass destruction, particularly in light of its past aggressive behaviour.…
— Stephen Harper
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Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.
— Noel Gallagher
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It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding…
— Charles Duhigg
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The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental…
— Rupert Sheldrake
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