Behaviour Quotes

• I was speaking the truth in a system that doesn’t value the truth, but as soon as you go out of it, then speaking the truth actually has an impact. It turns out a lot of people care… not everybody is interested in ignoring bad behaviour. I learned I had to go outside the system.

  

  Susan J. Fowler
  • Truth
  • System
  • Impact

• My father is a cultural anthropologist and my mother ran an outpatient clinic and treated a lot of people who had been institutionalised. I was very fascinated with behaviour and criminology and why people do things that don't make any sense. I would probe my mother: "Why? Why would somebody do this?" And look for some causality between someone's mental state and their behaviour. I think it had a lot of influence on me.

  

  Eliza Hittman
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Influence

• I think they (Thatcher protesters) ought to be grateful for the fact that the people who hold our (pro-Thatcher) views, and who are not mindless bigots, won't allow their behaviour to provoke us into words or behaviour which would could be seen as a breach of the peace. Hopefully, those of us who admire Margaret Thatcher are too well-mannered to fall for the bait.

  

  Norman Tebbit
  • Grateful
  • Admire
  • Hopefully

• No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.

  

  Alasdair Gray
  • War
  • Man
  • Behaviour

• The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.

  

  David Malet Armstrong
  • Person
  • Certain
  • Concept

• There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with foresight and will such action can be taken without disturbing the essence of our way of life, by adjusting behaviour not altering it entirely.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Action
  • Disaster
  • Climate

• I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Problem
  • Americans
  • Judaised

• 'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart. You listen for feeling, for meaning. You listen for behaviour. You use your right brain as well as your left. You sense, you intuit, you feel.' ... 'You have to open yourself up to be influenced'.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Listening

• It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand

  

  Dave Allen
  • Company
  • Reputation
  • Behaviour

• People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • People
  • Behavior
  • Manners

• Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.

  

  Mohammad Hamid Ansari
  • Attitudes
  • Therefore
  • Corrected

• Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • People
  • Path
  • Behaviour

• I think sometimes certain behaviour of men is seen as normal or usual - but it's never normal or usual to the victim, ever. It's horrific.

  

  Nicola Roberts
  • Men
  • Victim
  • Behaviour

• We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

  

  Evan Davis
  • Rules
  • Cheat
  • Conform

• If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

  

  Simon Conway Morris
  • Human
  • Prospect
  • Horrors

• The behaviour of lovers is oscillating like the moon, and unpredictable as the weather.

  

  Bernd Schuster
  • Lovers
  • Weather
  • Behaviour

• Our behaviour as an athlete is often determined by our previous experiences and how we dealt with those experiences. It is these experiences from past performances that can often shape what will happen in the future. It is for this reason that you learn and move on to be more mentally stronger as both an athlete and as a human!

  

  David Horne
  • Future
  • Reason
  • Human

• I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Story
  • Nostalgia
  • Behaviour

• Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.

  

  Theresa May
  • Communities
  • Behaviour
  • Criminality

• At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.

  

  Catherine Bertini
  • World
  • Country
  • Valuable

• The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Humanity
  • Unity
  • Created

• Variable behaviour of the sun is an obvious explanation, and there is increasing evidence that Earth's climate responds to changing patterns of solarmagnetic activity. ... If you look back into the sun's past, you find that we live in a period of abnormally high solar activity. ... It's a boom-bust system, and I would expect a crash soon. ... Having a crash would certainly allow us to pin down the sun's true level of influence on the Earth's climate. Then we will be able to act on fact, rather than from fear.

  

  Nigel Weiss
  • Earth
  • Sun
  • Climate

• Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Government
  • Opinion
  • Possibility

• Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Trying
  • Social
  • Tough

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