Behavior Quotes

While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

~ John W. Thompson

My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.

~ Pink

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

~ Zoe Lofgren

Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation.

~ Annalee Newitz

We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.

~ Sam Yagan

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

~ Bill Gates

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

~ Edward Thorndike

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Hollywood studios bury that stuff - actors who punch directors in the face and try to run producers over with cars - insanity, criminal behavior. But the studios are invested in that star, they can't have that person's name dirtied up.

~ Alec Baldwin

What I've seen around the world is if the regulatory desires are combined with things that affect consumer behavior - such as in Europe, they tax gasoline very heavily - you do get people to move to very fuel efficient cars; trade off bigger vs. smaller cars.

~ Rick Wagoner

As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc... None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody's stereotype or ideal.

~ Trieste Kelly Dunn

I don't like high concept movies very much, and the kind of scripts that I would occasionally get offered tended to be really high concept comedies or romantic comedies. I just don't like it. I like much more realistic movies with actual psychology and behavior in them.

~ Greg Mottola

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

~ Greg Boyle

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

~ Bruce Henderson

Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

~ Jack Canfield

Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.

~ Maelle Gavet

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.

~ Blanche Lincoln

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

~ Maxwell Maltz

You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.

~ Gavin Newsom

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

~ Sharon Stone

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

~ Kenneth L. Pike

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

~ Maxwell Maltz

Adolescents show off. That's another way of wanting to connect with people. It's not an aspect of human behavior that we generally consider to be very admirable, but it is, in some way, a means of connecting with someone else and not being alone.

~ Kenneth Lonergan

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

~ Gary Becker

The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

~ Randy Neugebauer

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

~ Benjamin N. Cardozo

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

~ E. O. Wilson

I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis.

~ Sarah Parcak

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

~ Alex Haley

We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.

~ Michel Foucault

No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.

~ Joe Rogan

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

~ Jerry Springer

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain.

~ Stacy Schiff

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

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

~ Serge Lang

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

~ Leonid Hurwicz