Behavior Quotes - Page 24

• At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Patterns, Moments, Insight

  Rupert Sheldrake (2012). “The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Memory of Nature”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Soul, Body, Mood

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• Two questions help us see why we are unlikely to get what we want by using punishment... The first question is: What do I want this person to do that's different from what he or she is currently doing? If we ask only this first question, punishment may seem effective because the threat or exercise of punitive force may well influence the person's behavior. However, with the second question, it becomes evident that punishment isn't likely to work: What do I want this person's reasons to be for doing what I'm asking?

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Exercise, Punishment, Two

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• Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

  Andy Rooney

  Mean, Civilization, May

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• A friend in the true sense is not a person who passively nods approval of our conduct or ignores improper behavior. A friend is a person who cares.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Who Cares, Approval, Persons

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• Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Blame, Environment

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• Responsibility means to perform our service properly,with proper attitude, behavior and words.

  Radhanath Swami

  Attitude, Mean, Responsibility

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• So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

  Toni Morrison

  Insanity, World, Sudden Change

  Toni Morrison (2015). “God Help the Child: A novel”, p.42, Vintage

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• My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Husband, Boss

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• Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.

  Dennis Prager

  America, White, Black

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• Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.

  Timothy Keller

  Grateful, Believe, Heart

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• The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.

  Gabe Newell

  Running, Games, People

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

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• Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.

  Susan W. Tanner

  Encouragement, Children, Confused

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• No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, People, Watches

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• Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies... and often dangerous ones. Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself. The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person's situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.

  Bill Bonner

  Lying, Believe, Simple

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• Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates, and they become, in behavior if not in thought, adherents of the woolly idea of a 'living Constitution.' They endorse, by their passivity, the idea that new threats justify ignoring the Framers' text and logic about shared responsibility for war-making.

  George Will

  War, Responsibility, Government

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• The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Challenges, Information, Way

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• ‎When you meet anyone, treat the event as a holy encounter. It's through others that we either find or love our self. For you see, nothing is accomplished without others. When you eliminate the concept of separation from your thoughts and your behavior, you begin to feel your connection to everything and everyone.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Encounters, Events

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 30, 2011

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• The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

  Lawrence S. Kubie

  Essence, Patterns, Illness

  Lawrence S. Kubie (1966). “Newurotic Distortion of the Creative Process”

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• I wasn't writing, I wasn't drawing, and personality-wise, I was just completely arrogant. I'm not trying to be overly apologetic for my behavior - I wasn't evil. The lifestyle I had was one that lent itself to becoming more and more self-involved.

  Patti Smith

  Wise, Writing, Self

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

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• You have two people who I would classify as extremists. Donald Trump because of his behavior and Ted Cruz because of his views, leading the Republican Party.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Party, Views, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I do think there is an enhanced awareness of insecurity and vulnerability that induces anxiety that creates pressure on teachers and administrators to offer simplistic explanations and to be resistant to expressions of attitudes that can be viewed as unpatriotic, which is further interpreted as applicable to any tendency to challenge the government when it claims to be acting overseas to avoid repetitions of 9/11 or to encroach on domestic freedom to identify suspicious persons and behaviors.

  Richard A. Falk

  Teacher, Attitude, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm very interested in animal behavior, and the relationship of human beings to other animal behavior.

  Lynne Tillman

  Animal, Humans, Human Beings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you're really crazy you don't question it. Being aware of my behaviors stops them. Sure, a lot of people pick their cuticles, but how many people cut big parts of their skin off? It's unfair because I have been judged.

  Jenny Lawson

  Crazy, Cutting, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Many university presidents assume the language and behavior of CEOs and in doing so they are completely reneging on the public mission of the universities. The state is radically defunding public universities and university presidents, for the most part, rather than defending higher education as a public good, are trying to privatize their institutions in order to remove them from the political control of state governments. This is not a worthy or productive strategy.

  Henry Giroux

  Government, Order, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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