Behavior Quotes - Page 14

• For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.

  Stanley Milgram

  Self, Action, Responsible

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• government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.

  Camille Paglia

  Government, Intervening

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• Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.

  Andrew Vachss

  Children, Love Is, Emotion

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• I don’t want traffic behavior, I want social behavior.

  Hans Monderman

  Social Behavior, Want, Traffic

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• The quality of a person's character can be known partly by the attitude of his ally who likes him TRULY and, probably full, by understanding who he likes REALLY as his buddy with his behavior.

  Anuj

  Attitude, Character, Understanding

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• This is serious, if Martha gets the maximum sentence on all counts, she could serve 20 years in prison. Of course, you have to take off time off for good behavior, which means 20 years in prison.

  Conan O'Brien

  Mean, Years, Serious

  "This Week's 'The List' -- Martha Guilty", abcnews.go.com.

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• Whoever alters a person's expectations changes his behavior.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Expectations, Persons

  Don C. Dinkmeyer, Rudolf Dreikurs (2000). “Encouraging Children to Learn”, p.36, Psychology Press

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• I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep.People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'

  Margo Kaufman

  Dad, Father, Hate

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• If the world powers are not prepared to insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal is signed, at the very least they should insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal expires.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Change, Iran, World

  Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of the US Congress, time.com. March 3, 2015.

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• Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Character, Matter, Novel

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.174, Macmillan

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• A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.

  Nancy Chodorow

  Way, Roles, Attention

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• We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into which all behavior is then fitted.

  Erving Polster

  Expectations, Stories, Want

  Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”

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• So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Reality

  "Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, p. 234, "The Designers and the Politicians" (1962), 1969.

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• Remember that God is within us when we are in a state of grace and outside of us when we are in a state of sin; but His angel never abandons us. . . He is our most sincere and faithful
  friend even when we sadden him with our bad behavior.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Angel, Grace, Faithful

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• Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

  Jacque Fresco

  Culture, Customs, Values

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• But let me offer a word of caution. If you choose to give from your heart, be careful. The most incredible feeling might just overwhelm you. And if you continue in this behavior, that feeling may become permanent.

  Steve Goodier

  Heart, Giving, Feelings

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• It was not just inappropriate behavior

  Bob Kerrey

  Stupid, Humorous, Inappropriate Behavior

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• It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving, or that the survival of the societies we know depends upon filling a simple set of prescriptions. It is all too complex and dynamic, whether it involves managing greenhouse gases or Nile snails... The future condition of the globe's interlocking natural and social systems depends more on human behavior than on the further investigation of natural processes, however desirable that may be.

  Gilbert F. White

  Simple, Survival, Environmental

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• Every one of you sitting here today is carrying at least 500 measurable chemicals in your body that were never in anybody's body before the 1920s... We have dusted the globe with man-made chemicals that can undermine the development of the brain and behavior, and the endocrine, immune and reproductive systems, vital systems that assure perpetuity... Everyone is exposed.

  Theo Colborn

  Men, Brain, Sitting

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• Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.

  Caleb Carr

  Mind, Toads, May

  Caleb Carr (2017). “The Alienist”, p.298, Hachette UK

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• Your beliefs don't make you a better person. Your behavior does.

  Unknown

  Doe, Belief, Better Person

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• The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered acceptable sexual behavior. In the past century, the law has had trouble keeping up with changing social and moral standards.

  Terry Gross

  Sex, Past, Law

  "Legislating Desire: An Author's Take On 'Bad Laws And Good Sex'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 11, 2015.

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• Maybe you should think about the choices in your life, how someone can come and spit some kind of game to you and make you doubt every single thing that is your life, your relationship, your appearance, your job, your ambitions, your marriage, and how those thoughts can lead to choices and behavior that you never thought that you were capable of.

  Jurnee Smollett

  Jobs, Ambition, Thinking

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• I'm not at all contemporary, not even modern, and the fact that I would be so quaintly attracted to that wrestling rule makes me, I suppose, seem all the more old-fashioned. I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

  John Irving

  Believe, Wrestling, Would Be

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, People, Missing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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