Behavior Quotes

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

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

but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

Why I'm interested in filmmaking is because a moving image is very, very powerful when it comes to changing human behavior.

Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad.

Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.

Good behavior wins even an enemy.

The biggest mistake people make is assuming that their dogs think like little humans, and that they can negotiate behavior with them, but it doesn't work that way.

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

If you don't need to prove that you are right or that someone else's behavior should be punished, you can better see your way to achieving harmony in any given situation.

There is no right or wrong behavior. The only meaningful choice is between fear and love.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

People don't change at their core. If you're a good person, you are a good person. What changes is our behavior.

There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.

The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information

You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior -- especially under pressure.

Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.

Information does not change behavior. Practices do.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

Contraries are cured by contraries.

All feelings are acceptable, but all behavior isn't.

Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.

The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.

Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

I am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive dangerous vision and behavior of people who support Donald Trump.

The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.

If you stay in that new flow of positive behavior, it's hard to revert back to old patterns. But if you do fall off, just forgive yourself, recover quickly, and get right back on.

I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself.

There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US - from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.

Be yourself. If something you do doesn't work, don't do it the next time. Listen to yourself - you know what appropriate behavior is.

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.

I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.

The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.

We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.