Behavior Quotes

It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.

So, what's a nudge? A nudge is some small feature of the environment that attracts our attention and alters our behavior.

The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.

Look at your goals. Look at your behavior. Does your behavior match your goals?

The amygdala, along with related areas..., plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially sensitive to social interactions.

Money is 80% behavior, 20% head knowledge. It's what you do, not what you know.

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.

A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line.

It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

Your beliefs don't make you a better person. Your behavior does.

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.

People will do something—including changing their behavior—only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.

True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.

Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.

The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

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

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.