There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
~By Thomas Pynchon ~
They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.
~By Roy Moore ~
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
~By Bruce Jay Friedman ~
It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
~By James Dean ~
It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
Your behavior is based on your beliefs, and what you do and say, over and over again, helps develop your habits.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
~By Lawrence Durrell ~
A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.
~By Will Wright ~
My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.
~By Lorna Luft ~
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
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.
~By Kate Moss ~
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
~By Margaret Mead ~
Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
~By Randall Terry ~
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
~By Douglas Horton ~
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.
~By John Dos Passos ~
The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.
~By Russ Feingold ~
It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.
~By Dee Hock ~
I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?
~By Sarah Ferguson ~
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
~By Camille Paglia ~
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.
~By Mike Hawkins ~
Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.
~By Ric Keller ~
I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
~By Sally Kirkland ~
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
~By Fred Woodworth ~
You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.
~By Ron Silver ~
As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.
~By Temple Grandin ~
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
~By Alex Haley ~
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
~By George Meredith ~
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
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.
~By Brion James ~
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
~By Bill Cosby ~
If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy.
~By Rob Walton ~
Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
~By John Boorman ~
If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.
~By Robert Nelson ~
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.
~By David Rose ~
I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.
~By Jennifer Connelly ~
Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.
~By George A. Sheehan ~
It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
~By Josef Albers ~
So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
~By Barry McCaffrey ~
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
~By Eknath Easwaran ~
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.
~By Peter R. Grant ~
I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior," he said. "You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
~By Chuck Colson ~
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.
~By Theophrastus ~
Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
~By Tony Robbins ~
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
~By Elizabeth Janeway ~
Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
~By Gene Tierney ~
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
~By A. E. van Vogt ~
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.
~By Tim Robbins ~
You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did.
~By Robert Creeley ~
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
~By Laura Schlessinger ~
It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.
~By Luc Montagnier ~
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
~By Vernon Howard ~
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
~By Barbara Deming ~
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items.
~By Paul Sweeney ~
Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.
~By Rick Wagoner ~
The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
~By Plato ~
No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.
~By Madeleine Albright ~
Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
~By Gary Gygax ~
Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.
~By Temple Grandin ~
Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.
~By Ernst Mayr ~
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
~By Andre Norton ~
And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.
~By Jane Mayer ~
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
~By Judith Martin ~
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.
~By Jessica Walter ~
Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.
~By John Mica ~
Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.
~By Edward Zwick ~
When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.
~By Judith Wright ~
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
~By Stephen Covey ~
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
~By Blanche Lincoln ~
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
~By Michel Foucault ~
At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.
~By John Carmack ~
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.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.
~By Glenn Close ~
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.
~By Roger Mudd ~
Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.
~By John Walters ~
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