Quotes about behavior

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

— Alfred Adler

The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.

— Joe Ancis

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.

— W. H. Auden

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

— Francis Beaumont

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

— Otto Von Bismarck

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— C. E. Coghill

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?

— Leonard Cohen

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

— George W. Crane

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

— Rene Descartes

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

— Shannen Doherty

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

— Albert Einstein

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.

— Charles A. Garfield

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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

— Doug Horton

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

— Kin Hubbard

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

— Korner

Still people are dangerous.

— Jean De La Fontaine

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

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

— Margaret Mead

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

— Wilson Mizner

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

— Hector Hugh Munro

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

— Cesare Pavese

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

— Proverb

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

— Proverb

Contraries are cured by contraries.

— Proverb

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.

— Richard D. Rosen

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.

— B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner

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.

— E. G. Stakman

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

— Benzel Sternan

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

— Sharon Stone

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

— Fran Tarkenton

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.

— Emma Thompson

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Orson Welles

What you allow, is what you teach....

— maven101

Foolish behavior is similar to YellowMan. Everything is really detailed but yet so simple!

— BPBEE

Every thing is beautiful in its right use

— Tadj Abelkader