Behavior Quotes

Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why cus...

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make ev...

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure so...

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable...

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone ...

A veteran, calm and assured, he pauses for a well-measured moment in the doorway of the office and t...

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction...

Clever talk, ingratiating looks, fawning reverence: Tso-ch’iu Ming found that shameful, and so do I....

When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, y...

Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to...

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industriali...

Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

The literary experience extends impression into discourse. It flowers to thought with nouns, verbs, ...

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoid...

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back ...

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm...

One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and cou...

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove othe...

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for a...

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's...

An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or...

What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexu...

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own...

Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light...

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at onc...

I was always interested in animals, but when I was little, animal behavior was still a new science. ...

Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means o...

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do jus...

Us" versus "them" is not in our genes. It is something we learn.

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see ...

No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still ...

Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders t...

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behav...

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected ...

They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so sho...

If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy you...

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation...

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or sa...

To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counteri...

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibi...

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding,...

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselv...

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...

Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impuni...

Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human b...

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you c...

If someone stops where they should not, they’ll stop anywhere. If someone slights a person they shou...

I share your feeling that such behavior is, in some sense, unwise or erroneous, but this does not me...

We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker...

It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do s...

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about wheth...

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope ...

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.Algernon. I’m feeli...

Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—goo...

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to thin...

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ...

The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its ...

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promi...

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. ...

I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a pic...

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the e...

My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion ...

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

We are living in a generation where people ‘in love’ are free to touch each other’s private parts bu...

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed...

How do you behave when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy and your power has become absolu...

I understand that you are under a lot of pressure and that it's hard being a bride. That is all well...

Most people put off my mother's erratic behavior to the fact that she was a writer, as if that just ...

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not...

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controll...

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and worki...

All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled...

When and why do we attribute a person's behavior to brain disease, and when and why do we not do so?...

(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid...

I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very muc...

There is a code of behavior, she knew, whose seventh article (it may be) says that on occasions of t...

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavio...

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection a...

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as...

I thought I had made this discovery: that there are unexpected, constant repetitions in our behavior...

The only clue to what is in people's minds is in their behavior. If a man behaves strangely, oddly, ...

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

Hollywood studios bury that stuff - actors who punch directors in the face and try to run producers ...

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dis...

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always bee...