Behaviour Quotes - Page 4

• True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

  Dalai Lama

  Change, Wise, Wisdom

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

  Janet Suzman

  Pain, Heart, Racist

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• And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

  Emma Thompson

  Change, Communication, Thinking

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• We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?

  Confucius

  Life, Understanding, Action

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• You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.

  Tony Gilroy

  Writing, People, Understanding

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• Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and even the study of history would largely be useless. In effect, if the future actions of men having nothing in common with their past actions, our knowledge of them, although possibly satisfying our curiosity by way of an interesting story, would be entirely useless to us as a guide in life.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

  Ben Kingsley

  Character, Roots, Great Writers

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• Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.

  Charlie Huston

  Thinking, Diplomacy, Manipulate

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• All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, Psychology, Magic

  "Steven Pinker: The evolutionary man". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

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• A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

  Shirley Manson

  Fear, Fancy Cars, People

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

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• If I want to live in a peaceful world, then it is up to me to make sure that I am a peaceful person. No matter how others behave, I keep peace in my heart. I declare peace in the midst of chaos or madness. I surround all difficult situations with peace and love.

  Louise Hay

  Love, Peace, Heart

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jun 24, 2010

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• The basic fundamental of behaviour should be to give.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Giving, Fundamentals, Should

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• Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

  Anthony Storr

  Bridges, Creative, Needs

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• Dolphins frequently leap above the water surface. One reason for this behaviour could be that, when travelling longer distances, jumping can save the dolphins energy as there is less friction while in the air.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Distance, Jumping, Air

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Animal, Men, Humanity

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• If you knowingly and willingly embark on criminal behaviour, the consequences of that should be... that you lose some of your benefits under the current system

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Criminals, Benefits, Should

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• Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

  Alain de Botton

  Suffering, Malice

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• At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour.

  Lucy Powell

  Order, Needed

  "After election upheaval, politics returns to normal" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. June 08, 2008.

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• A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

  Thomas Nagel

  Motivation, Psychology, Action

  Thomas Nagel (2016). “The Possibility of Altruism”, p.34, Princeton University Press

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• Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, which is the greatest of differences that could possibly exist between them.

  George MacDonald

  Two, Differences, People

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Princess and Curdie”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• The behaviour of lovers is oscillating like the moon, and unpredictable as the weather.

  Bernd Schuster

  Moon, Weather, Dating

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• Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Indulge In, Joy

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• Our behaviour as an athlete is often determined by our previous experiences and how we dealt with those experiences. It is these experiences from past performances that can often shape what will happen in the future. It is for this reason that you learn and move on to be more mentally stronger as both an athlete and as a human!

  David Horne

  Moving, Athlete, Past

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• Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life. Nourishment of the feeling level is the basis for growth of the spiritual holistic value. Delicate behaviour on the surface should be such as to nourish, uphold and enhance the Transcendental value where feelings merge into a common source.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Spiritual, Communication, Loss

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• The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natural behaviour of our hearing, as used to be generally maintained hitherto.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Way, Hearing, Artistic

  "The Theory of Sound". Book by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, 1862.

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