Behavior Quotes - Page 5

• So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

  Alan Rudolph

  Unique, Everyday, Today

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

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• I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

  Jacques Derrida

  School, Long, Sickness

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.343, Stanford University Press

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• I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

  Albert Ellis

  Age, Eclectic Style, Public Speaking

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• I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

  Albert Ellis

  Therapists, Used, Term

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• The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

  Brion James

  Genre Is, Want, My Favorite

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• I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Historical, Patterns, Process

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• Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

  Seneca the Younger

  Behaviour, Levity, Virtuous

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• Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.

  Apuleius

  Behaviour, Venus, Ifs

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• Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

  Cesare Pavese

  Perfect, Behaviour, Indifference

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950”, London : P. Owen

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• Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

  Bill Vaughan

  Behaviour, Manners, Theory

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• Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Giving, Grace

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• The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

  John Dos Passos

  Strong, Men, Fog

  John Dos Passos (1956). “The Theme is Freedom”

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• Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

  Julian Assange

  Agency, Law, Secret

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• Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Powerful, Hero, Variables

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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• I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior, which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

  Kate Moss

  Business, Apology, People

  "Kate Moss: Sorry I let people down". www.cnn.com. September 22, 2005.

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• The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

  Jeffrey Tate

  Music, Expression, Perfect

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• If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.

  Richard Rosen

  Dog, Acting, Behaviour

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• A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

  Bill Vaughan

  Imagination, Inspire, Behaviour

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• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  Wally Lamb

  Attention, Stories, Hardship

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• Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

  John Walters

  Friends, Track, Parent

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• Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Age, Action, Blind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Way, Behave

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.76, Open Road Media

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• Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

  Ruth Benedict

  Men, Details, Constitution

  RUTH BENEDICT (1934). “PATTERNS OF CULTURE”

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• Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Goal, Taste, Good Behavior

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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