Behavior Quotes - Page 19

• Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad.

  David D. Burns

  Realizing, Accepting Yourself, Accepting

  Source: time.com

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• I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

  Tom Hollander

  Self, Play, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wind, Moral Behavior, Meat

  "Expanded Universe". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1980.

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• Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moral Behavior, Selfishness, Conflict

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• Behavior is determined by its consequences.

  B. F. Skinner

  Determined, Consequence

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• I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's behavior, I will advise you to tell the child to take a lap.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Mean, Psychology

  Bill Cosby (2002). “Bill Cosby on Fatherhood”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

  Sigmund Freud

  Unnatural

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• I regard any behavior we indulge in as a game. The soul is beyond not only three-dimensional space but beyond the illusion of linear time. Any method we use to move through three- or four- dimensional space is a game. It doesn't matter how serious we take it, or how serious its consequences are.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Games, Indulge In

  Douglas Rushkoff (1994). “Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace”, Harper San Francisco

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• The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Needs, Generations

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• Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.

  Stephen Covey

  Principles, Determine, Consequence

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• We begin to change the dynamic of our relationships as we are able to share our reactions to others without holding them responsible for causing our feelings, and without blaming ourselves for the reactions that other people have in response to our choices & actions. We are responsible for our own behavior and we are not responsible for other people's reactions; nor are they responsible for ours.

  Harriet Lerner

  People, Choices, Feelings

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• An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary bias. There is no reason to suppose that any one culture has seized upon an eternal sanity and will stand in history as a solitary solution of the human problem. Even the next generation knows better. Our only scientific course is to consider our own culture, so far as we are able, as one example among innumerable others of the variant configurations of human culture.

  Ruth Benedict

  Example, Generations, Culture

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• The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value" is one of preference. In classical science it was supposed that the world always works in terms of absolute certainty and that "cause" is the more appropriate word to describe it. But in modern quantum physics all that is changed. Particles "prefer" to do what they do. An individual particle is not absolutely committed to one predictable behavior. What appears to be an absolute cause is just a very consistent pattern of preferences.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Differences, World, Patterns

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• Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.

  Stephen Covey

  Performances, Persons

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Motivation, Important, Humans

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• Why I'm interested in filmmaking is because a moving image is very, very powerful when it comes to changing human behavior.

  Ruben Ostlund

  Powerful, Moving, Filmmaking

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of those lies? But actually maybe I also recognize that in turning empathy into a practice for many years, by turning, by forcing myself to separate at some level the humanity of a human being from his or her actions and recognizing that sometimes, even the moral aspects of a human being can contribute to immoral behavior.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Lying, Years, Practice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.

  Bill Nye

  Thinking, Gambling, Feel Good

  "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.

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• I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.

  Scoot McNairy

  Hands, Long, People

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2014.

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• I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

  Scoot McNairy

  Thinking, Acting, Tunes

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2014.

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• The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

  Naoto Fukasawa

  Design, Best Design

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• The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under Victoria, sexual intercourse was the natural end and culmination of heterosexual relations. Now one begins with genital overtures instead of a handshake, then waits to see what will turn up (e.g., might become friends later). Like dogs greeting each other nose to tail and tail to nose.

  Walker Percy

  Dog, Waiting, Tails

  Walker Percy (2013). “The Last Gentleman and The Second Coming: In One Volume”, p.356, Open Road Media

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• I think a current understanding about urban behavior tells us that it's important that people get out and be able to get away from the concrete jungles and the dense environment where they live for their own mental well-being. If they don't do this, the costs in human loss and human sickness will be far greater than what we would be expending for these kinds of releases and open spaces.

  Barry Goldwater

  Loss, Thinking, Concrete Jungle

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• We will not make inroads into the gun-violence problem until we acknowledge the underlying causes of youth behavior today, compared to yesterday. ... we must come to the realization that laws and regulations alone cannot produce a civilized society. It's morality that is society's first line of defense against uncivilized behavior.

  Walter E. Williams

  Gun, Law, Yesterday

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• Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

  Barbara Sher

  Judgmental, Cop, Virtuous

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.66, Dell

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