Behaviour Quotes - Page 3

Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging cycle. It's sort of damaging your relationships, friends or lovers, it's damaging your own personal health and it's damaging for you and your workplace.

Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it.

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.

We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.

A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.

An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature.

At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.

I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package.

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident.