Behavior Quotes - Page 18

• If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Relationship, Spiritual

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• Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.

  Carly Fiorina

  Conscious, Performances

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• Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Wrestling, Boxing, Savages

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• The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.

  William Greider

  Order, Long, Democracy

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• 3 "amnesty" didn't mean rewarding illegal behavior.

  John McCain

  Mean, Amnesty, Illegal

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• It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Wise, Divorce, Example

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• Your doubts are not the product of accurate thinking, but habitual thinking. Years ago you excepted flawed conclusions as correct, begin to live your life as if those warped ideas about your potential were true, and ceased the bold experiment in living that brought you many breakthrough behaviors as a child.

  Price Pritchett

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Pritchett, Price (1990). “You2: a high-velocity formula for multiplying your personal effectiveness in quantum leaps”, Pritchett & Associates

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• Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations.

  Albert Speer

  Intuition, Shapes, Adjusting

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• When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect.

  Susan Jeffers

  Self, World, Plant

  Susan Jeffers (1993). “Dare to Connect: Reaching Out in Romance, Friendship, and the Workplace”, Ballantine Books

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• Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Gang, Harder, Percent

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• The human experience can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all decisions are of the past, all decisions are about the future. The image of the future, therefore, is the key to all choice-oriented behavior. The character and quality of the images of the future which prevail in a society is therefore the most important clue to its overall dynamics.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Character, Past, Keys

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• If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them

  Stephen King

  Fighting, Rights, Should Have

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• What could be more interesting to students than their own behavior and that of others?

  Wilbert J. McKeachie

  Interesting, Students

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• Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is correct about 80% of the time.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Self, Important, Fundamentals

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• Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Desire, Economics, Humans

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• As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.

  Deepak Chopra

  Teenager, Real, Thinking

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• It is easier to recognize the quality of leadership in the behavior of their followers than it is in the behavior of the leader.

  Kevin Lowe

  Leader, Quality, Followers

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• We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.

  Douglas Adams

  Mistake, Animal, Self

  "Last Chance to See". Book by Douglas Adams, 1990.

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• I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Law, People

  "Ask the Author Live: David Brooks on the Composure Class". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2011.

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• Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from one moment to the next. We possess multiple selves that are aroused by different circumstances.

  David Brooks

  Self, Law, People

  "Ask the Author Live: David Brooks on the Composure Class". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2011.

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• I'm the ultimate organizer! My major at Stanford was "Organizational Behavior" so I love to multi-task and stay extra busy.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Tasks, Busy, Organizational

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I plead - that it's very difficult when you deal with - ISIS and organizations like that whose - whose behavior is so barbaric and so vicious - that it doesn't seem to have any purpose other than lust for killing and power. And that's very difficult to put ourselves in other shoes.

  Hillary Clinton

  Isis, Shoes, Organization

  Hillary Clinton's speech on foreign policy and domestic issues at the Democratic presidential debate at Drake University in Iowa hosted by the CBS News, www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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• Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.

  David D. Burns

  Powerful, Guilt, Social

  Source: time.com

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• If a hungry lion suddenly appeared, you'd be terrified. So terrified you'd probably run away. Great, fear's doing its job. But you might get so afraid that you lock up and can't move. This would be very bad. Guilt's the same. It can prevent you from fixing the situation, make you feel so bad you can't function at 100% and even lead to more guilt-provoking bad behavior.

  David D. Burns

  Running, Jobs, Moving

  Source: time.com

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• More often than not, the belief that you are bad contributes to the "bad" behavior. Change and learning occur most readily when you (a) recognize that an error has occurred and (b) develop a strategy for correcting the problem. An attitude of self-love and relaxation facilitates this, whereas guilt often interferes.

  David D. Burns

  Attitude, Errors, Behavior Change

  David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

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