Behavior Quotes
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You are the creator of your own reality, and so you are not in jeopardy. You do not need to control the behavior of others in order for you to thrive. Your attention to things that you think they do that keeps you from your thriving is, in fact, what keeps you from your thriving... It is not what they do to you; it's what you do to you in fear of what you think that they will do to you.
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If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.
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Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.
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The dog is a reflection of your energy, of your behavior. You have to ask, 'What am I doing?' That's the right question to ask.
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The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.
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As you recover, you will feel more conscious of your surroundings. Freed from the ‘fog’ of your pain, fear, and confusion, you will awaken and see the world revealed as never before. You will begin to observe things, especially yourself. You will be aware of what you do and why you do it. You will begin to observe your own behavior and attitudes.
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Authority is not required to supply reasons for their behavior, because hierarchy trumps procedure.
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In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
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I am not going to engage in the kind of behavior that you see from Donald Trump.
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I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.
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The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual.
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If you don't need to prove that you are right or that someone else's behavior should be punished, you can better see your way to achieving harmony in any given situation.
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Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.
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When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior.
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The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.
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John Boswell introduction of the concept of "gay" (in the way he defines it) provides us both with a useful instrument of research and at the same time a better comprehension of how people actually conceive of themselves and their sexual behavior.
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Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.
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Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.
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Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.
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Anyone who ever studied mankind by listening to them was self-deluded. The first thing they should have done was to answer the question, "Can they report to you correctly on their behavior?" And the answer is, "No, the poor bastards cannot."
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Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.
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There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart.
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The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
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There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
