Behavior Quotes - Page 8

• Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

  James Bryant Conant

  Irritated, Surface, Below The Surface

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• While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

  John W. Thompson

  Block, Technology, Important

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, Opportunity, Productive Work

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.179, Pantheon

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• I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

  Robert Ludlum

  Trying, Nuance, Realms

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• I used to be very self-conscious. I used to wish I was pretty. My cousin Georgia always taught me that if you smile, people will like you. Sometimes people will say something you don't like, and you get angry a bit, but you just smile. You let it go by, even if you really would like to choke 'em. By smiling, I think I've made more friends than if I was the other way.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Cousin, Thinking, Self

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• There are jus times when you can't let the right thing stand in yo way.

  Winston Groom

  Way, Right Thing

  Winston Groom (2002). “Forrest Gump”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Fire, People, Sometimes

  Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Bissell Carroll (1964). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.135, MIT Press

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• If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Language, Ifs

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

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• It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Movie, Film History, Insightful

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

  Kin Hubbard

  Behaviour, Way, Reason

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• My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Years, Lasts

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment rather than with rituals or rules of behavior

  Bill Porter

  Time, Practice, Moments

  Bill Porter, Red Pine (2009). “Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China”, p.11, Counterpoint Press

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• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

  Alfred Adler

  Drinking, Humor, Knowing

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• Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

  Sakya Pandita

  Beauty, Men, Flames

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• I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mistake, Heart, Perfect

  Twitter post from May 6, 2015

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• You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

  Brené Brown

  People, Shame, Belittle

  Brené Brown (2007). “I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough"”, p.20, Penguin

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• There is no better test of a man's integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.

  Marvin Williams

  Integrity, Men, Tests

  Marvin Williams (2016). “Radical Generosity: Living Right and Loving Others in the Name of Jesus”, p.24, Discovery House

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• The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

  Dan Buettner

  Healthy Habits, People, Influence

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• Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

  Peter Drucker

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness.

  Seth Godin

  Stress, Health, Inspire

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• Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior.

  Gail Simone

  People, Worst, Knows

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• With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Hype, Gentleman, Trying

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• A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

  Jane Austen

  Upset, Bent, Expected

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• To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Long, Limits

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• Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

  Alex Haley

  Unique Characteristics, Racism, Racist

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