Top 25 Behaviour Quotes of 162 - Page 7

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

Insane, Behaviour, World

"The 100 best nonfiction books: No24 - The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith (1958)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2016.

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.

Jaron Lanier

Design, Behaviour, Way

"My bright idea: Jaron Lanier". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

If you knowingly and willingly embark on criminal behaviour, the consequences of that should be... that you lose some of your benefits under the current system

Iain Duncan Smith

Criminals, Behaviour, Benefits

The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natural behaviour of our hearing, as used to be generally maintained hitherto.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Behaviour, Way, Hearing

"The Theory of Sound". Book by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, 1862.

Whatever we thought was certain is no longer certain, and therefore in science probably certain things must be correct, but in human behaviour I am not so sure.

Elie Wiesel

Behaviour, Certain, Humans

Source: www.nobelprize.org

I am a believer in Adam Smith, who says that if you look at something that really contributes value to society, and you can deliver it at a reasonable price, then society will recognise that at some point because rational behaviour will come into play.

David Cheriton

Play, Looks, Behaviour

I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.

Daniel Radcliffe

Thinking, Age, Behaviour

I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.

Dalai Lama

Thinking, Discipline, Behaviour

Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.50, Penguin

Gentlemanly, principled, helpful behaviour by older men vis-a-vis young women goes unnoticed, but it deserves real moral credit, and we could use more first-person testimony from the beneficiaries and practitioners about that too.

Catherine Wilson

Real, Men, Behaviour

Source: www.3ammagazine.com

We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.

Anita Roddick

Church, Behaviour, Mosques

What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are - the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.

Adam Gopnik

Behaviour, Tables, Who We Are

Source: www.newyorker.com