Behavior Quotes

• Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • People
  • Behavior
  • Genocide

• When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Behavior
  • Daring

• We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, 'Ooh, we're having a water crisis.' This is foolishness, and this kind of foolishness, where we try to excuse human behavior, is dangerous.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Water

• Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • Want
  • Change
  • Study

• There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Death
  • Peace
  • Behavior

• To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • God
  • Behavior
  • Consider

• But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Behavior
  • Worried

• A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Thoughts
  • Human
  • Actions

• The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Best
  • Behavior
  • Blues

• The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Children
  • Action
  • Language

• Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Behaviour
  • Virtuous
  • Levity

• Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Law
  • Behavior
  • Legal

• I have lots of concerns at working with Russia going against ISIS until we have agreements in terms of what Russia's behavior is going to be.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Working
  • Behavior
  • Russia

• It is really intolerable that we can say only one thing at a time; for social behavior displays many features at the same time, and so in taking them up one by one we necessarily do outrage to its rich, dark, organic unity.

  

  George C. Homans
  • Dark
  • Rich
  • Social

• The 'terrorist' behavior of petitioners is remarkably similar to the conspiracy of violence and intimidation carried out by the Ku Klux Klan.

  

  Dawn Johnsen
  • Violence
  • Conspiracy
  • Intimidation

• The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always produce the outcomes. Similar outcomes can occur for reasons other than the person's actions, which further complicates inferential judgment. Effects that arise independently of one's actions distort the influence of similar effects produced by the actions, but only on some occasions. Given a strong cognitive set to perceive regularities, even chance joint occurrences of events can be easily misjudged as genuine relationships of low contingent probability.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Strong
  • Action
  • Judging

• Behavior, cognitive, and other personal factors, and environmental influences all operate interactively as determinants of each other.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Behavior
  • Influences
  • Factors

• If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Change
  • Start
  • Attitudes

• Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Action
  • Behavior
  • Theory

• Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • World
  • Long
  • Violence

• The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Needs
  • Certain
  • Absolutes

• Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Community
  • Capitalism
  • Creates

• Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Good
  • Christian
  • Religious

• I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapped up in different hair and wardrobe and eras, and different period behavior, than it is to play closer to the present.

  

  Scott Bakula
  • Different
  • Easier
  • Wardrobe

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