Behave Quotes

• You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Tree
  • Consequence
  • Seeds

• I believe that a nuclear Iraq can change its fundamental dynamic, affecting how others behave - toward us and toward allies such as Israel - and emboldening Saddam Hussein to believe, rightly or wrongly, that he can attack his neighbors and, because of his nuclear capability, we will hesitate.

  

  Sandy Berger
  • Believe
  • Neighbor
  • Allies

• Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Measure
  • Behave

• The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that youll have little in the future.

  

  Sendhil Mullainathan
  • People
  • Behavior
  • Capture

• To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in all its aspects, of work, and of play, in such a way that it may come to be what it was created to be, that which praises its maker by becoming perfect in its own way. In all this, there is room for both usefulness and beauty to take their due place, but differently according to differences of activity and object.

  

  Colin Gunton
  • God
  • Way
  • Image

• Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

  

  Susan Minot
  • Ways
  • Illness
  • Behave

• I think the media put more pressure on women, especially in regards to the way they look and how they're supposed to behave.

  

  Kate Nash
  • Thinking
  • Pressure
  • Regard

• Internal character: how you behave when no one is watching.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Character
  • Behave
  • Internals

• To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Connected

• We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.

  

  Walt Whitman Rostow
  • World
  • Behave
  • Diplomacy

• I began to understand that 'America' in reality belonged to the whole world and not just to Americans. The idea of America had already been invented by the philosophers, the vagabonds, the dispersed of this earth, long before the Spanish ships got there. Those whom we call Americans have only rented it for a time. If they behave badly, we can discover another 'America'. The contract can be canceled at any time.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • World
  • Long
  • America

• I meant to behave. There were just too many other options.--T-SHIRT

  

  Darynda Jones
  • Behave
  • Options
  • Meant

• One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Friend
  • Grandfather
  • Professor

• Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

  

  Raymond Carver
  • World
  • Death
  • Faces

• I try not to behave badly in a way that can harm others. If so, I can be proud of myself and be confident.

  

  Park Kyung Block B
  • Proud
  • Confident
  • Behave

• One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in according with Christian ethics. But pastorally and existentially, I know that this is not the case, and never has been.

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Ethics
  • Cases
  • Behave

• I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

  

  Alison Uttley
  • Imagination
  • Difficult
  • Foolish

• The efficient market theory is one of the better models in the sense that it can be taken as true for every purpose I can think of. For investment purposes, there are very few investors that shouldn't behave as if markets are totally efficient.

  

  Eugene Fama
  • Purpose
  • Investment
  • Investors

• I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.

  

  Blue Balliett
  • Way
  • Down
  • Bigs

• I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave.

  

  Elwood G. Norris
  • Book
  • Fear
  • Find

• You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar's daughter. You're supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn't say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes.

  

  Theresa May
  • Daughter
  • Behave
  • Responsibilities

• In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Men
  • Behavior
  • Expected

• The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time, is really the stuff that interests me.

  

  Steven Bochco
  • Interest
  • Trauma
  • Behave

• People have a tremendous range of options of how they can behave. There's so much in people.

  

  Allan Nairn
  • People
  • Behave
  • Options

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