Behavior Quotes

I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

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

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

Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

The government is promoting bad behavior.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight.

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

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

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

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

My behavior is humiliating.

Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution.

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.

I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.

There's a lot of rudeness and sullen behavior and kids that are very entitled and spoiled, just buy me more stuff. I didn't want to raise kids like that.

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

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

Spry is not a look, spry is behavior.

As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

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

I have gotten disturbed at... some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.

At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

We are the world.

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

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

Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.

I always say centered food equals centered behavior.

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.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behavior.

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

I believe there is true expertise in some endeavors, and not in others. There is obviously no such thing as expertise in predicting the results of coin tosses, but there is expertise in predicting the behavior of lasers.

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.