Behavior Quotes - Page 11

You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.

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

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

I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around; that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all.

Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.

What we now consider to be radical behavior was to early believers nothing more than a sincere attempt to live obediently.

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

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

More often than not, the belief that you are bad contributes to the "bad" behavior. Change and learning occur most readily when you (a) recognize that an error has occurred and (b) develop a strategy for correcting the problem. An attitude of self-love and relaxation facilitates this, whereas guilt often interferes.

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.

The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

What could be more interesting to students than their own behavior and that of others?

Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.

Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe

There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.