Behaviour Quotes
399 quotes by 342 authors
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Planted by your care? No! Your oppression planted them in America... nourished by your indulgence? They grew by your neglect of them... As soon as…
— Isaac Barre
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Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can…
— Confucius
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Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company…
— Warren Buffett
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My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the…
— Moshe Feldenkrais
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If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of…
— Simon Conway Morris
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That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe…
— Isaac Barrow
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In dancing the Alman the young men sometimes steal the damsels from their partners and he who has been robbed seeks to obtain another damsel.…
— Thoinot Arbeau
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With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great unitary harmonies, actions…
— Charles Scott Sherrington
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The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath our own feet.…
— Terence McKenna
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The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them…
— Ben Kingsley
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Men with discrimination will be viewed as schemers; second, men with deep far-sightedness will be seen as cowards; and third, men with rough behaviour will…
— Takeda Shingen
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The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to be…
— Hal Porter
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"Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual-…
— Aldous Huxley
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Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.
— Arsene Wenger
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We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
— C.S. Lewis
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Once your thoughts reflect what you genuinely wan to be, the appropriate emotions and the consequent behaviour will flow automatically. Believe it and you will…
— Wayne Dyer
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The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good).…
— Marcus Borg
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My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don't think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is…
— Kailash Satyarthi
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Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable,…
— Eddie Redmayne
Who Wrote These Behaviour Quotes
342 authors contributed a total of 399 Behaviour Quotes, led by these top contributors: