Behavior Quotes

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

Religion is behavior and not mere belief.

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.

Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.

The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority.

You don't become a new person by changing your behavior; you discover who you are in Christ and your behavior changes accordingly

Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.

Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

You are a guest of nature - behave.

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone’s behavior.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.