Behave Quotes - Page 17

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

  Lew Wallace

  Men, Behaviour, Way

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Illustrated): Historical Novel - A Tale of the Christ”, p.225, e-artnow

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• The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little acts of compassion. You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does.

  Thom Hartmann

  Powerful, Compassion, People

  Thom Hartmann (1997). “The Prophet's Way: Touching the Power of Life”

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• I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Silly, Ideas, Band

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• We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.

  Walt Whitman Rostow

  World, Diplomacy, Ifs

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• Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.

  Avery Brooks

  Responsibility, Blood, Effort

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• There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

  John Milius

  People, Giants, Looks

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• On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

  Tim Heidecker

  Movie, Stylist, Way

  "EXCLUSIVE: Tim Heidecker Talks The Comedy" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. November 08, 2012.

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• There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.

  Jon Ronson

  Looks, Banking, Rewards

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• I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

  Brenda Blethyn

  Thinking, Doors, People

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• If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.

  Danny Bonaduce

  Special You, Perspective, Done

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• Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.

  Linwood Barclay

  Running, Opportunity, Light

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• It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes.

  Tom Barrett

  Thinking, Practice, Mind

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• Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Sports, Football, Winning

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• People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, News Stories, People

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 15, 2012.

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• If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Acting, Way, Feels

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• If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.

  Jonathan Franzen

  People, Drug, Way

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• Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

  Brad Grey

  People, Ego, Involved

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• The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe Nature does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Reflection, Desire

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

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• Because he says he can't stand you and you act like you can't stand him, and whenever a man and a woman behave like that toward each other, it usually means something's going on.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Crush, Mean, Men

  Helen Oyeyemi (2014). “Boy, Snow, Bird”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Giving, Way

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• For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their budgets. It turns out that families looked around and said, "You know what? Let's behave more like the government!"

  George Will

  Business, Government, Long

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• I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.

  Jane Campion

  Nuts, Piano, People

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• I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.

  Michael Cunningham

  Way, Firsts, Language

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• Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

  Fernando Flores

  Robots, Worst

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• To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.

  Rebecca Hall

  Fun, Character, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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