Behavior Quotes - Page 14

Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even single-mindedly, motivated to feel happy.

With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.

Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.

Boldness is behavior born out of belief.

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.

To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.

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

Repentance is a change of behavior which invites forgiveness.

You can have me the way i am — bad behavior included — or not at all.

All human behavior is either an act of love or a cry for love.

Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results.

Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.

Belief creates behaviors.

I could not kick heroin to save my life, literally, until I started telling my secrets. It was some of the clearest evidence I've ever found of anything. It was the only immediate change in behavior I've ever undergone. I told the most frightening truths, and I was free.

What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?

Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in spite of some behavior that defies common sense.

Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.