Behavior Quotes

LOVE – PEACE – SUCCESS: When they are what we desire, they fuel our hope… When they are seen in our behavior, they change our lives.

Steve Maraboli

Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them.

Patti Digh

How differently we behave in other peoples countries ... no sooner than we think we can get away with it, we do as we please. It doesn't require the breakdown of a social order. It takes a six-hour plane flight.

Aminatta Forna

You’re being nicer to me than I've been to you lately," I said."Yes, I am. But then, Hitler was nicer to Poland than you've been to me lately.

Molly Ringle

If in doubt, keep quiet. Play safe, talk less, and observe.

Alison Golden

As believers, everything we do is based on how we view God.

Hayley DiMarco

We are what we adapt to.

Carter Stroud

The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone.

Lara Santoro

We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less highly developed animals than ourselves. In fact, however, the extremes of brutal behavior are confined to us: there exists no parallel in nature to our savage treatment of each other. The unmistakable truth is that man is the most vicious and cruel species that ever walked the earth.

Hans Askenasy

Maybe what stopped people from voting wasn't a lack of information about the candidates or a feeling that the outcomes of races didn't matter or a sense that a trip to the polls was inconvenient. What if voting wasn't only a political act, but a social one that took place in a liminal space between the public and private that had never been well-defined to citizens? What if toying with those expectations was key to turning a person into a voter? What if elections were simply less about shaping people's opinions than changing their behaviors?

Sasha Issenberg

Out of one hundred random thoughts that pass through your mind, ninety-five are your brain's indirect responses (positive & negative) to what you believe others think of you.

Saurabh Sharma

Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable.

Steve Maraboli

In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves.

D.B. Harrop

Let me explain before another word is written: I have never once asked a cat, "So tell me what's up, Charlie?" and Charlie says, "Jeez Jackson, thanks for asking. A little annoyed by the fluorescent lights, and will you please check out this tiny piece-of-junk pan I have to crap in but, hey, I still got my legs, you know? Can't complain, pal.

Jackson Galaxy

If they do it often, it isn’t a mistake; it’s just their behavior.

Steve Maraboli

Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—good, but not best.

Oswald Chambers

Organizations can’t change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior—and changing behavior is hard.

Keith Ferrazzi

...moderate your desire of producing perfection, temper your eagerness to produce faultless performance...and soften your manners towards those who are subordinate to you...

Cecil Woodham-Smith

I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits.

Philip Pullman

People now a days are in business of minding other's business.

Kartik Mehta

Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It’s an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don’t see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Severe punishment unquestionably has an immediate effect in reducing a tendency to act in a given way. This result is no doubt responsible for its widespread use. We 'instinctively' attack anyone whose behavior displeases us - perhaps not in physical assault, but with criticism, disapproval, blame, or ridicule. Whether or not there is an inherited tendency to do this, the immediate effect of the practice is reinforcing enough to explain its currency. In the long run, however, punishment does not actually eliminate behavior from a repertoire, and its temporary achievement is obtained at tremendous cost in reducing the over-all efficiency and happiness of the group. (p. 190)

B.F. Skinner

The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response to be forgotten. The technique seems to be relatively free of objectionable by-products. We recommend it, for example when we suggest that a parent 'pay no attention' to objectionable behavior on the part of his child. If the child's behavior is strong only because it has been reinforced by 'getting a rise out of' the parent, it will disappear when this consequence is no longer forthcoming. (p. 192)

B.F. Skinner

If you want to save youself from problems just hold the hands of truth

Hussain Rasheed

In my opinion, being a Christian is a noticeable behavior. If you have to tell somebody you’re a Christian, then you’re probably not doing it right.

Steve Maraboli

You want to BE happy and HAVE success? Join those words, BE+HAVE… To experience success in your life requires that you decide what you want and BEHAVE accordingly.

Steve Maraboli

I understand that you are under a lot of pressure and that it's hard being a bride. That is all well and good. But it does not, ever, entitle you to be rude, selfish, uncaring, and generally obnoxious to me or Haven or anyone else. We've been very patient with you because we're your family and we love you, but it stops here. I don't care if the wedding is two weeks or two hours away, you were never raised to behave this way.

Sarah Dessen

Just because we live in a world of chaos and madness doesn’t mean we have to subscribe to that sort of behavior.

J.M. Northup

If they do it often, it isn't a mistake; it’s just their behavior.

Steve Maraboli

Whatever worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Pillip D.Stanhope

Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.

Brené Brown

Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

You can teach a child the importance of pain by your behavior. You can also teach as child the importance of no pain by your behavior.

Milton H. Erickson

Set a high standard on how you treat women. Whether they appreciate it or not, don’t lower your own standards of behavior.

Steve Maraboli

The "us versus them" mindset coupled with our social nature implies that we have an innate need to belong to clearly defined in-groups.

Gad Saad

Habits aren’t destiny. Habits can be ignored, changed, or replaced. But the reason the discovery of the habit loop is so important is that it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit—unless you find new routines—the pattern will unfold automatically.

Charles Duhigg

Using information about animal behavior to justify social or political ideology is wrong . . . People need to be able to make decisions about their lives without having to worry about keeping up with the bonobos.

Marlene Zuk

So sad "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" the series ended open and it was made in 2011 and it ended in 2011!

Deyth Banger

Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controlling his behavior. That is why ideology, an attempt to interpret the condition of man, is always a prominent feature of revolutions, wars, and other circumstances in which individuals are called upon to perform extraordinary action.

Stanley Milgram

I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a picnic and that I was no picnic myself.

Philip Roth

The human brain works by identifying patterns. It uses information from the past to understand what is happening in the present and to anticipate the future. This strategy works elegantly in most situations. But we inevitably see patterns where they don’t exist. In other words, we are slow to recognize exceptions. There is also the peer-pressure factor. All of us have been in situations that looked ominous, and they almost always turn out to be innocuous. If we behave otherwise, we risk social embarrassment by overreacting. So we err on the side of underreacting.

Amanda Ripley

BEHAVIOR is the bridge between what you want and what you have.

Steve Maraboli

When someone tries to make life miserable for you, remember, they are fighting a losing battle with themselves.

Amitav Chowdhury

Our thoughts shape how we behave.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Big data is based on the feedback economy where the Internet of Things places sensors on more and more equipment. More and more data is being generated as medical records are digitized, more stores have loyalty cards to track consumer purchases, and people are wearing health-tracking devices. Generally, big data is more about looking at behavior, rather than monitoring transactions, which is the domain of traditional relational databases. As the cost of storage is dropping, companies track more and more data to look for patterns and build predictive models".

Neil Dunlop

[She] had the indefinable charm of someone who said little but thought much. Miss Prim had always felt that such people were at a marked advantage. They never said anything tactless, never spouted nonsense, never had cause to regret their words or justify themselves.

Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera

Behavior is math: Truth is found in the sum of its parts.

Steve Maraboli

If someone stops where they should not, they’ll stop anywhere. If someone slights a person they should treat generously, they’ll slight anyone. And if someone races ahead, they retreat in a hurry.

Mencius

People's behavior depends upon their current situation and past experience.

Jenil Kanani

Remorse shows the difference between a cruel person and one that is not.

Federico Chini

Behavior isn't something someone "has." Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, past experiences, and immediate context.

L. Todd Rose

You don’t say, “I’m sorry,”’ he says. ‘Getting injections, and experiencing pain, is part of life. There’s no reason to apologize for that.’ He seems to be channelling Rousseau, who said, ‘If by too much care you spare them every kind of discomfort, you are preparing great miseries for them.’ (I’m not sure what Rousseau thought about suppositories.)

Pamela Druckerman

When you get scared, embarrassed, angry, nervous, with full of emotion and bad thoughts, remember to maintain your discipline. It earns you respect the more.

Auliq-Ice

You've probably missed out something really great but you haven't let that drive you insane but always remember to be yourself.

Auliq-Ice

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

Philip G. Zimbardo

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Marcel Proust

A veteran, calm and assured, he pauses for a well-measured moment in the doorway of the office and then, boldly, clearly, with the subtly modulated British intonation which his public demands of him, speaks his opening line, 'Good mor

Christopher Isherwood

Religious beliefs...should never be an excuse to treat people badly.

Zach Wahls

The porpoises and whale themselves, in their quests for entertainment, often created problems. One summer a fashion developed in the training tanks (I think Keiki started it) for leaning out over the tank wall and seeing how far you could balance without falling out. Several animals might be teetering on the tank edge at one time, and sometimes one or another did fall out. Nothing much happened to them, except maybe a cut or a scrape from the gravel around the tanks; but of course we had to run and pick them up and put them back in. Not a serious problem, if the animal that fell out was small, but if it was a 400-pound adult bottlenose, you had to find four strong people to get him back, and when it happened over and over again, the people got cross. We feared too, that some animal would fall out at night or when no one was around and dry out, overheat, and die. We yelled at the porpoises, and rushed over and pushed them back in when we saw them teetering, but that just seemed to add to the enjoyment of what I'm sure the porpoises thoguht of as a hilariously funny game. Fortunately they eventually tired of it by themselves.

Karen Pryor

Clever talk, ingratiating looks, fawning reverence: Tso-ch’iu Ming found that shameful, and so do I. Friendly while harboring resentment: Tso-ch’iu Ming found that shameful, too, and so do I.

Confucius

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