Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
~By Alex Haley ~
I've had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn't have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with.
~By Robert Culp ~
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 most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
~By Jeffrey Tate ~
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 ~
When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.
~By David Fincher ~
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 ~
Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
~By Larry Elder ~
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 ~
In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
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 ~
No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.
~By Madeleine Albright ~
Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
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 ~
I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.
~By Jennifer Connelly ~
People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
~By Sharon Stone ~
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.
~By Jerry Springer ~
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
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 ~
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
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 ~
If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.
~By Diahann Carroll ~
Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.
~By Arthur Rock ~
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 ~
Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.
~By Judy Biggert ~
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 ~
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
~By Warren Buffett ~
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
~By Richard King ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.
~By John L. Phillips ~
Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
~By Henry S. Haskins ~
So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.
~By Alan Rudolph ~
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
~By R. D. Laing ~
A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.
~By Michael Medved ~
Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.
~By Marc Morial ~
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
~By Alfred Adler ~
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
~By Stephen Covey ~
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 ~
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
~By Dean Koontz ~
These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.
~By Bob Filner ~
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
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 ~
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
~By Douglas Horton ~
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 ~
I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.
~By Paul Dirac ~
I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.
~By Julia Stiles ~
The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.
~By Shoshana Zuboff ~
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.
~By Alfred Kinsey ~
Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
~By Saskya Pandita ~
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
Spry is not a look, spry is behavior.
~By Robert Culp ~
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 ~
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
~By Dean Koontz ~
Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food.
~By Steve Albini ~
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 ~
I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.
~By Martin Feldstein ~
Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
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 ~
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
~By Freda Adler ~
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 ~
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.
~By Bruce Henderson ~
I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
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 ~
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
~By William Glasser ~
Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition.
~By Robert Nozick ~
To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.
~By Peter R. Grant ~
People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
~By Johnny Depp ~
Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.
~By Roger Mudd ~
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
~By Randall Terry ~
A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.
~By Thomas Friedman ~
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
~By Boethius ~
Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.
~By Mike Hawkins ~
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
~By George Meredith ~
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
~By Vernon Howard ~
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
~By Wally Lamb ~
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
~By Herbert Simon ~
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
~By Logan P. Smith ~
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 ~
In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
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 ~
Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.
~By Jessica Walter ~
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