I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
~By Dean Koontz ~
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
~By George Meredith ~
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 ~
Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
~By Gene Tierney ~
Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.
~By Anita Hill ~
For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful.
~By Michael Apted ~
As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.
~By Roger Mudd ~
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 ~
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
~By John Boorman ~
I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.
~By George Stigler ~
While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.
~By John W. Thompson ~
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.
~By Amy Smart ~
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 ~
A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.
~By Martin Feldstein ~
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
~By Boethius ~
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 ~
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 ~
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
~By Alex Haley ~
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 ~
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
~By Benjamin Whorf ~
The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.
~By Lou Ferrigno ~
The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.
~By John Buford ~
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 ~
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.
~By Temple Grandin ~
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 established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
~By Ignacy Jan Paderewski ~
Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.
~By Linda Lavin ~
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 ~
My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
~By A. E. van Vogt ~
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 ~
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 ~
With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
~By Douglas Horton ~
I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.
~By Austan Goolsbee ~
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 ~
We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.
~By Zoe Lofgren ~
I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.
~By Jennifer Connelly ~
The "self-image" is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
~By Bob Nelson ~
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
~By Greg Anderson ~
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 ~
I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.
~By Diahann Carroll ~
I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
~By Adam Baldwin ~
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 ~
When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.
~By Glenn Close ~
I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.
~By Julia Stiles ~
If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.
~By Howard Barker ~
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 ~
Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution.
~By Marvin Bower ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.
~By Temple Grandin ~
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 ~
Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
~By Candice Bergen ~
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 ~
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 ~
Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
~By Bill O'Reilly ~
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
~By Moliere ~
The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.
~By Temple Grandin ~
Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.
~By Tim Murphy ~
Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.
~By Stone Gossard ~
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 ~
So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.
~By Pat Boone ~
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 ~
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 ~
That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
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 ~
A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
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 ~
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 ~
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
~By Bill Gates ~
I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
~By Laurie Anderson ~
If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.
~By Serge Lang ~
A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'
~By Gene Wilder ~
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 ~
To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.
~By Willard Gaylin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.
~By Roy Moore ~
Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
~By Randall Terry ~
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 ~
You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
~By Sally Field ~
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 ~
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