Behavior Quotes - Page 2

The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

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

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

Our behavior toward others is often a reflection of our treatment of ourselves.

I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'.

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.

We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed or ridiculed and Christians are considered suspect and their motives and behavior berated.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.

Always act as if you were seen.