Behavior Quotes
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In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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People don't change at their core. If you're a good person, you are a good person. What changes is our behavior.
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We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
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Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.
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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.
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You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.
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The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.
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I think the Russians have played now for some time the role of providing cover for Bashar al-Assad's behavior. The alternative explanation that the Russians put forth is simply not plausible.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.
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The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful.
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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People who have undergone a loss get a fair amount of leeway on their behavior.
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We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
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Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.
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Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
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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.
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I will not Jodie Foster this kind of behavior.
