Behavior Quotes - Page 2

• I always say centered food equals centered behavior.

  Marilu Henner

  Food, Equal, Food Safety

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• When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Men, Animal

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• Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

  Dorothy Parker

  Innocence, Ridiculous, Dainty

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.25, Penguin

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• There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Peace, Mind, Literature

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from May 15, 2010

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• Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

  Gene Tierney

  Eccentric, Movie Sets

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Innovation, Enemy, Inquiry

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• Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Reality, Organization, Decision

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• There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Differences, Chance, Operations

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.253, Penguin

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• We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Arrogance, Prejudice, Refrain

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• Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

  Edward Thorndike

  Character, Science, Animal

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• All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

  Vernon Howard

  Self, Unseen, Weakness

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• Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

  Mary McCarthy

  Men, Literature, Apes

  Mary McCarthy (2017). “Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979”, p.414, Library of America

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• I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

  Laurie Anderson

  Goal, Trying, Goal Oriented

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• So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Justice, Balance, Environmental

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

  Sharon Stone

  Differences, People, Making A Difference

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• With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Crazy, Animal, Elements

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• When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Intelligent, Individual, Turns

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• It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, People, Unseen

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• Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Personal Development

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• Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

  Randall Terry

  Choices, Feelings, Sometimes

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• Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

  Stanislav Grof

  Karma, Believe, Survival

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• The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

  Aldous Huxley

  Moral Behavior, Numbers, Quality

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

  Randall Terry

  Law, Negative, Purpose

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• But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

  Abraham Maslow

  Communication, Defense, Way

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• Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

  Margaret Mead

  Humanity, Together, Woven

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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