Behavior Quotes - Page 10

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.

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

We have the power to abstain from destructive behavior.

Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.

Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.

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

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.

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

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

The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

We see and understand more about our behaviors. We come aware. And aware. And aware. . . Often, we feel uncertain about what to do with all this awareness.

Human action is purposeful behavior.

Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.