Behavior Quotes - Page 15

• I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic. I get to play out all kinds of bad behavior without anyone actually coming to harm.

  Adam Croasdell

  Home, Opportunity, Thinking

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• It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.

  Bill Murray

  Cake, Play, Guy

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• The general confusion is that our moral behavior is what justifies us before God. Most of us would never say that with our mouths but we feel that lie in our heart and believe it in our minds. You can be morally upright and not be a worshipper of Christ at all.

  Matt Chandler

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Source: www.christianitytoday.com

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• I believe, when in my behavior or in relationships or in the way I react to something, that I'm still dealing with some leftover stuff from my childhood, but the good thing is now, because I have learned so much from the Bible, I can tell when I'm behaving wrong and when I'm not, and it doesn't take me very long to realize that's out of fear, or that's because I was controlled as a child, and I can make a conscious decision to behave the way I know I should behave.

  Joyce Meyer

  Children, Believe, Long

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

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• When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor, you know? I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior... And I haven't moved one step forward since.

  Seth Rogen

  Grandparent, Touching, Trying

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 31, 2007.

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• In North America, people get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption, not only in politics, but of spirit as well, when people are so quick to be violent with one another. I think everybody would like to be able to find a solution to make things better. We have the desire to reform inside of us, and we get frustrated because we don't know how to change things, even if it comes to our own behavior. Sometimes you get frustrated because you don't know how to stop that thing that you know is either hurtful to yourself or someone else.

  Jennifer Beals

  Thinking, America, Government

  Source: collider.com

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• I believe, as they say, that you can't be what you don't see, and since I saw a lot of smart women in my life, education being at the center, I just mimicked that behavior.

  Eva Longoria

  Smart, Believe, Saws

  "Eva Longoria on Business, Beauty, and Mastering Her Signature Smoky Eye". Interview with Patricia Reynoso, www.glamour.com. March 17, 2015.

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• Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.

  Benjamin Barber

  Attitude, Tea, Dollars

  Benjamin Barber (2001). “Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy”, Ballantine Books

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• Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.

  John Katzenbach

  Teamwork, Educational, Views

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• Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Coaching, Use

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• We need more expensive gasoline to change consumer behavior," Mr. Jackson said. Otherwise, Americans will continue to favor big vehicles, not matter what kind of fuel-economy standards the government imposes on auto makers. Four dollars a gallon, he added, "is a good start.

  Michael J. Jackson

  Government, Energy, Fuel Economy

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• I am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be in your good Behavior and that of my other Children. My Hopes from all of you are very agreable. God grant, I may not be disappointed.

  John Adams

  Family, Children, May

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• Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service.

  Dan Brown

  Design, Effort, Research

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• Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.

  John Locke

  Children, Thinking, Giving

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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• It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.

  Seth

  Way, Given, Virtuous

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• I come here because it is fun. I have fun when I come here. I do not come here because I feel that I have any great responsibility for your beings or welfare. Who am I to set myself against the innate wisdom of your own individual being, or to take upon my invisible shoulders the great privilege or joyful responsibility for your behavior and destiny?

  Seth

  Fun, Responsibility, Destiny

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• The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.

  Hugh Blair

  Clouds, Giving, Cheerful

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.

  William Law

  Christian, Prayer, Judging

  William Law (1734). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].”, p.77

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• Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

  Herbert Simon

  Reflection, Simple, Chaos

  "The Sciences of the Artificial". Book by Herbert A. Simon, p. 53, 1969.

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• Learning to spot narcissists and deal with their destructive behavior can save you the world of hurt that awaits anyone who mistakes the near enemy for a friend.

  Martha Beck

  Hurt, Mistake, Enemy

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• We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.

  Joshua Harris

  Selfish, Service To Others, Reckless

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• Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs

  Martha Beck

  Trying, Belief, Stop Trying

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• Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I’ve seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.

  Scott Adams

  People, Stupidity, Mind

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.164, Penguin

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• Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

  Candice Bergen

  Distance, Long, People

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• They're both about the correct or proper way to do something. There is a correct and proper way to use words and there is a correct and proper way to behave with other people. And I behaved improperly with John and feel bad, so I compensate by obsessing with language, which is easier to control than behavior.

  Peter Cameron

  People, Use, Way

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

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