Behaviour Quotes - Page 14

• The vehemence with which a person denies the existence of the serial bully is directly proportional to the congruence of the person's behaviour with that of the serial bully

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Vehemence, Deny

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• For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.

  Giovanni Battista Beccaria

  Nature, Science, Enquiry

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• Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals will be more likely to survive and reproduce so their pattern of behaviour and thought will become dominant

  Stephen Hawking

  Patterns, Able, World

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• Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives

  Margaret Beckett

  Future, Vision, Way

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• People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  People, Expectations, Accountability

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• I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

  Kingsley Amis

  Animal, Looks, Lively

  Kingsley Amis, Zachary Leader (2000). “The letters of Kingsley Amis”, HarperCollins

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• My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

  Desmond Tutu

  Military, Silence, Community

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• It was as if personality itself had a 'face'. This non-physical face of personality seemed to be the real key to personality change. It remained scarred, distorted, 'ugly' or inferior the person himself acted out this role in his behaviour regardless of the changes in physical appearance. If this 'face of personality' could be reconstructed, if old emotional scars could be removed, then the person himself changed, even without facial plastic surgery.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Real, Emotional, Keys

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.4, Penguin

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• It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Would Be, Looks

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• Sometimes we may find that our partner continues to seek satisfaction in ways that we cannot live with. Nevertheless, when we decide to go our own way, we still have a choice as to how we separate. We can separate with bad feelings, blaming the other's faults and unacceptable behaviour, or we can separate with forgiveness, love and understanding.

  Peter Russell

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Choices

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• Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it rightly insists that the 'behaviour' and the 'actions' of collectives, such as states or social groups, must be reduced to the behaviour and to the actions of human individuals. But the belief that the choice of such an individualist method implies the choice of a psychological method is mistaken.

  Karl Popper

  Mistake, Believe, Science

  "The Open Society and its Enemies".

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• It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand

  Dave Allen

  Business, People, Reputation

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• What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.

  Edward Mayhew

  Horse, Teaching, Animal

  Edward Mayhew (1864). “The Illustrated Horse Management: Containing Descriptive Remarks Upon Anatomy, Medicine, Shoeing, Teeth, Food, Vices, Stables : Likewise a Plain Account of the Situation, Nature and Value of the Various Points : Together with Comments on Grooms, Dealers, Breeders, Breakers and Trainers : Also, on Carriages and Harness”, p.10

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• Variable behaviour of the sun is an obvious explanation, and there is increasing evidence that Earth's climate responds to changing patterns of solarmagnetic activity. ... If you look back into the sun's past, you find that we live in a period of abnormally high solar activity. ... It's a boom-bust system, and I would expect a crash soon. ... Having a crash would certainly allow us to pin down the sun's true level of influence on the Earth's climate. Then we will be able to act on fact, rather than from fear.

  Nigel Weiss

  Past, Sun, Facts

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• Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed

  Oliver E. Williamson

  Self, Effort, Deceit

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• I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

  Gary Becker

  Understanding, Economics, Framework

  Gary Stanley Becker, Ramón Febrero, Pedro Schwartz (1995). “The essence of Becker”, Hoover Inst Pr

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• Recently there's been a trend to apply the term "bullying" to any kind of conflict at work, for example overwork and long hours. Although some bullying behaviours may be present in these issues, in my view this dilutes and devalues the term "workplace bullying" which should be used only for the more serious cases of conflict involving a serial bully. If there isn't a serial bully involved, it's probably not bullying you're dealing with.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Issues, Views

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• When you are stressed on mind...to pour it out, is the behaviour, most kind!

  Sujit Lalwani

  Stress, Mind, Kind

  Sujit Lalwani (2014). “Life Simplified!: Simplifying Lives Globally...”, p.31, Partridge Publishing

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• Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour I feel like saying to them: "You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?" But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.

  Will Self

  Children, People, Addiction

  "Will Self: The trouble with my blood" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Issues, Climate, Too Late

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• If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.

  Alain de Botton

  Baby, Disappointment, Children

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• I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Character, Thinking, Scene

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

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• In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Insane, World, Statistics

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No24 - The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith (1958)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2016.

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• Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

  Jonathan King

  Eye, Race, Media

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• Young Michael Brown is still somewhat of a wild-child, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour!!

  Clive Tyldesley

  Children, Brown, Young

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