Behavior Quotes - Page 16

• We are all linked by a fabric of unseen connections. This fabric is constantly changing and evolving. This field is directly structured and influenced by our behavior and by our understanding.

  David Bohm

  Understanding, Unseen, Connections

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• WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior.

  Les Brown

  Expectations, Want, Conversation

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• For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Disease

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• Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

  Richard Steele

  Silly, Men, Opposites

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• Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.

  Ian Stewart

  Freedom, Law, Liberty

  "Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Chaos" by Ian Stewart, New York: Penguin Books, (p. 17), 1989.

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• It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.

  Kevin Kelly

  Children, Let It Go, Lines

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• The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

  Bruce Henderson

  Successful, Differences, Essentials

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• Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

  James Redfield

  Responsibility, Way, Blame

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• Many people don’t realize the extent to which stories influence our behavior and even shape our culture. Think about how Bible stories teach the fundamentals of religion and rules of conduct. Think of the fables and parables that molded your values. Think of how stories about your national, cultural or family history have shaped your attitudes about yourself and others.

  Lawrence Shapiro

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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• There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

  Scott Adams

  Moral Behavior, Life Happens, Gray Area

  "Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel". Book by Scott Adams, 2002.

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• The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has degenerated in its realization to the socialized and apathetic behavior of passengers who hardly look out the windows.

  Paul Goodman

  Dream, Stars, Men

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 144), 1956.

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• Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.

  John Locke

  Karma, Men, Evil

  John Locke (1813). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.250

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• I think Cruella is evil, because she's the devil. But all the other characters, I was able to find a common humanity with them somewhere, knowing where they're most fragile, where they're most vulnerable, knowing some of the things that happened to them that might have formed this kind of behavior.

  Glenn Close

  Character, Thinking, Common Humanity

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Because as an actor, I really feel you cannot judge a character. You have to totally commit to that character. And for me to totally commit to the character, I have to find those places where I understand the sequence of behavior.

  Glenn Close

  Character, Judging, Actors

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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• I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.

  Willem Dafoe

  People, Interesting, Stories

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we're in his head. You're hearing all his thought processes and you're hearing him call himself out on his bad behavior. You don't have the benefit of that narrator in a movie. What you see a character do, very often, becomes that much more important because you don't have him editorializing it for you.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Hero, Character, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you are a libertine, if you're not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It's like the person who knows they're not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else.

  Ben Kingsley

  Long, Faithful, Trustworthy

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 6, 2008.

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• I don't consider myself very brave in any sense. I'm interested in this kind of behavior. My job is to try to make it realistic and emotionally resonant. That's the most challenging thing, to bring emotional resonance to what you do as an actor.

  Julianne Moore

  Jobs, Emotional, Brave

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 28, 2008.

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• Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Seems

  "Dick Van Dyke talks to one of our grandmas about his new book on aging, Keep Moving". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• I think it's better to have limits. My limits are different from other people's limits. I'm all for freedom, I'm all for people doing what they want. I'm also all for people shouldering the consequences of their behaviors, and not being assholes, and not lying unless they need to, and being honest except when you shouldn't, and being faithful except when it's okay to cheat. I guess I'm just a mass of contradictions.

  Dan Savage

  Lying, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.

  Richard Ayoade

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If the film isn't in some way going to study behavior then I'm not interested, but the reason why I'm not interested in directing in film is that it would take me, to be as good an artist as I feel I am an actor, it would take me another 35 just to conquer.

  Bruce Dern

  Artist, Actors, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think if you play characters, it's very important not to ever tag them with any sort of disorder, or diagnose them, or whatever. You have to normalize the behavior to get inside the character.

  Cillian Murphy

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Handheld camera is approximating what we're seeing when we're looking at each other, and kind of looking around, and your eyes whipping around. It adds an immediacy, where you feel like you are watching something through your own eyes, standing there with them. And that just allows you to take more liberties and have more fun with people's behavior.

  Paul Feig

  Fun, Eye, People

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2011.

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• From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest and self-destructive behavior. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact.

  Alante Kavaite

  Strong, Writing, Emotional

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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