Behavior Quotes
People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence
Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what makes us us.
Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.
Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.
When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from them).
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
We will use the actions of others to decide on proper behavior for ourselves, especially when we view those others as similar to ourselves
Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.
Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.
The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.
Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.
Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.
I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.
Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.
Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation.
Belief overflows to behavior. First we need to change what we believe. when we truly change what we believe, we'll gladly change how we behave.
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.
This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.
I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.
At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.
Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.
Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.
If you are open with someone, he will be open with you. If you want love from someone, give your love to him. If you want kind and sympathetic behavior from someone, be kind and sympathetic to him.
The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
So I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing me in my underwear.
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.
Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.
We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.
It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.