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 ~
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 ~
People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
~By Sharon Stone ~
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 ~
I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.
~By Robert Ludlum ~
You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
~By Zack Wamp ~
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 ~
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 ~
I always say centered food equals centered behavior.
~By Marilu Henner ~
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 ~
Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.
~By John Walters ~
Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.
~By George A. Sheehan ~
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
~By Stephen Covey ~
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 ~
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.
~By Paul Watzlawick ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
~By Buddha ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.
~By Tiger Woods ~
Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.
~By Temple Grandin ~
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 ~
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
~By Thomas Mann ~
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
~By George Meredith ~
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 ~
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 ~
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
~By Judith Martin ~
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 ~
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 did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
~By Martha Graham ~
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
~By Dean Koontz ~
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 ~
I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
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 ~
I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.
~By Julia Stiles ~
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
~By Margaret Mead ~
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
~By Ayn Rand ~
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
~By Thomas Pynchon ~
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
~By Plato ~
As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.
~By Jean-Marie Le Pen ~
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 ~
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 ~
A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.
~By Martin Feldstein ~
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
~By Gary Becker ~
A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
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 ~
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 ~
My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.
~By Mark Strong ~
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.
~By William Friedkin ~
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.
~By Alfred Kinsey ~
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 ~
The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.
~By Lou Ferrigno ~
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 ~
It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
~By Scarlett Johansson ~
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
~By James Bryant Conant ~
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 ~
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
~By Richard King ~
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 ~
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 spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.
~By Max Cannon ~
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 ~
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
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 ~
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 Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
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 ~
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 ~
I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.
~By Jessica Walter ~
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 ~
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.
~By Richard Rosen ~
Spry is not a look, spry is behavior.
~By Robert Culp ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people.
~By Prince Andrew ~
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 ~
Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.
~By Peter R. Grant ~
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 ~
No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.
~By Madeleine Albright ~
Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.
~By Ric Keller ~
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 ~
Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.
~By Rick Wagoner ~
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 ~
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