Motivational Quotes

Behavior

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

- Beaumont, Francis

Best Quotes about Behavior

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

Chomsky, Noam

The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.

Ancis, Joe

Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

Auden, W. H.

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

At the time, my grandparents told my mom, Lordy, what is Shannen doing? Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation for bad behavior]

Doherty, Shannen

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

Horton, Doug

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

Sternan, Benzel

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word -- politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

Thompson, Emma

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People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

Tarkenton, Fran

11.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

12.

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

Proverb

13.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Pavese, Cesare

14.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.

Hubbard, Kin

16.

A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

Garfield, Charles A.

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We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

Stone, Sharon

18.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Descartes, Rene

19.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

Beaumont, Francis

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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Stakman, E. G.

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If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.

Rosen, Richard D.

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What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.

Hitopadesa

24.

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

Proverb

25.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Mizner, Wilson

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Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Mead, Margaret

27.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Welles, Orson

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What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Cohen, Leonard

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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Coghill, C. E.

30.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

Still people are dangerous.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.