Behaviour Quotes - Page 12

• A part of being an actor is I people watch. I like to observe their behaviour, watch their reactions on the street and see how they talk to each other, and that's impossible when they are looking back at you. I used to enjoy taking the train and watching people in their own minds, struggling with themselves.

  Javier Bardem

  Struggle, People, Mind

  Interview with Peter Symth, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2008.

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• With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readier for facing Him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Connections, Cosmic

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

  Bjork

  Maps, Helping, Logic

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• You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.

  Keith Rabois

  Looks, Anomalies, Want

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• Weddings and funerals have so much in common (except that in Ireland funerals are more fun - better food, better drink): at both, our senses are sharpened and we register much more than usual - a striking face or hair-do, the wind's behaviour, a bird singing.

  Michael Longley

  Fun, Hair, Wind

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• People who expect to feel guilty tend to be more sympathetic, to put themselves into other people's shoes, to think about the consequences of their behaviour before acting, and to treasure their morals. As a result they are less prone to lie, cheat or behave immorally when they conduct a business deal or spot an opportunity to make money, studies suggest. They are also likely to make better employees because people who think less about the future results of their actions are more likely to be late, to steal or to be rude to clients.

  David D. Burns

  Lying, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: time.com

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• The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.

  Elliott Abrams

  Issues, Iran, Land

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• If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.

  Donald Davidson

  Utterance, Way, Belief

  "Meaning and Understanding". Book by Herman Parret and ‎Jacques Bouveresse, p. 186, "Radical interpretation", 1981.

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• As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Dog, Cat, Men

  "Enemies, A Love Story". Book by Isaac Bashevis Singer, p. 257, 1972.

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• I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Discipline, Kind

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.50, Penguin

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• Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified.

  Adolf Hitler

  Half, American Society, Americanism

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• ... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).

  Hilary Putnam

  Pain, Causes, Construction

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• On the cautionary side, Universal Jurisdiction could be used to achieve some kind of ideologically motivated criminalisation of 'the other' that would discredit and derail a constructive effort to develop a credible meta-law that governs the behaviour of leaders of sovereign states.

  Richard A. Falk

  Law, Leader, Effort

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• ... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Crazy, Humanity, Taste

  Elizabeth Bowen (1959). “Stories”

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• Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the body to reach the level of cooperation with the soul. When we fast, our intention is not to torture the body but to shun its behaviour. Thus, one who fasts becomes a spiritual and not a physical person. Fasting is an ascetic soul which takes the body with it as its partner in asceticism.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  Spiritual, People, Soul

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• ... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.

  Rene Descartes

  Doubt, May, Matter

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• [Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

  Steven Levy

  Google, Desire, Information

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• I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Gay, Austerity

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.641, Stanford University Press

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• I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

  Noah Baumbach

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response.

  Ellen Dissanayake

  Art, Emotional, Media

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• We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank and open our behaviour we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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• Since the police department is becoming more and more militarized we're stuck in a position where we're reverting to that sort of behaviour that other places still suffer from because they're kept in that post-colonial state of development indefinitely so we can reap the benefits of taking whatever natural resources they have.

  Immortal Technique

  Police, Suffering, Development

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Mood reflects the biology of the brain. How you feel is affected by the chemicals in the brain, and these are the same chemicals that form the basis of mood-altering drugs. You may use yoga, meditation, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) or exercise to alter your mood, or revert to healthy eating, regular exercise and getting enough sleep.

  Liz Miller

  Yoga, Sleep, Exercise

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• When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the behaviour and appearance of suburbs, tuberculosis sanatoria, fairs and imaginary dream cities - from anything but cities themselves.

  Jane Jacobs

  Dream, Cities, Principles

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• Do not encourage my behaviour.

  Carlos Mencia

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