Behaviour Quotes
399 quotes by 342 authors
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Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.
— David Bronstein
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The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care…
— Immanuel Kant
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Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he…
— Peter Senge
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It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should expect mind altered…
— Steve Fowler
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Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.
— George A. Sheehan
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When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be…
— Evan Dando
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Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.
— Keith Henson
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Our behaviour as an athlete is often determined by our previous experiences and how we dealt with those experiences. It is these experiences from past…
— David Horne
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If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths…
— Anthony Burgess
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Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.
— Swami Vivekananda
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What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.
— William Ross Ashby
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I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and…
— Charles Handy
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I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an…
— Janet Suzman
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When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell…
— Jon Ronson
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The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the problems of delivering…
— John Seely Brown
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If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is…
— Harriet B. Braiker
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You can’t change someone’s behaviour, all you can do is remind them, and hope that Allah will change their heart.
— Nouman Ali Khan
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I think they (Thatcher protesters) ought to be grateful for the fact that the people who hold our (pro-Thatcher) views, and who are not mindless…
— Norman Tebbit
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The basic fundamental of behaviour should be to give.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.
— Rodney Stark
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