Quotes about behavior




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"The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex."

Adler, Alfred on behavior
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"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well."

Ancis, Joe on behavior
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"Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public."

Auden, W. H. on behavior    Share

"Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top."

Beaumont, Francis on behavior    Share

"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half."

Bismarck, Otto Von on behavior    Share

"It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual."

Carlyle, Thomas on behavior    Share

"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent."

Coghill, C. E. on behavior    Share

"What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?"

Cohen, Leonard on behavior    Share

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act."

Crane, George W. on behavior
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"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."

Descartes, Rene on behavior
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"At the time, my grandparents told my mom, Lordy, what is Shannen doing? Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation for bad behavior]"

Doherty, Shannen on behavior    Share

"Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us."

Einstein, Albert on behavior    Share

"A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior."

Garfield, Charles A. on behavior    Share

"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on behavior
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"What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces."

Hitopadesa on behavior    Share

"We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon."

Horton, Doug on behavior    Share

"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt."

Hubbard, Kin on behavior    Share

"No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct."

Korner on behavior    Share

"Still people are dangerous."

La Fontaine, Jean De on behavior    Share

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on behavior    Share

"Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited."

Mead, Margaret on behavior    Share

"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down."

Mizner, Wilson on behavior    Share

"It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself."

Munro, Hector Hugh on behavior    Share

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"Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference."

Pavese, Cesare on behavior    Share

"The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition."

Proverb on behavior    Share

"People who have little to do are excessive talkers."

Proverb on behavior
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"Contraries are cured by contraries."

Proverb on behavior    Share

"If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so."

Rosen, Richard D. on behavior    Share

"Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters."

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic) on behavior    Share

"When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized."

Stakman, E. G. on behavior    Share

"Many people love in themselves what they hate in others."

Sternan, Benzel on behavior    Share

"We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do."

Stone, Sharon on behavior    Share

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

Tarkenton, Fran on behavior    Share

"I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word -- politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit."

Thompson, Emma on behavior    Share

"If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior."

Thoreau, Henry David on behavior    Share

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"Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere."

Thoreau, Henry David on behavior    Share

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

Unknown, Source on behavior    Share

"What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir."

Unknown, Source on behavior    Share

"I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could."

Welles, Orson on behavior
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