Behavior Quotes

Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controlling his behavior. That is why ideology, an attempt to interpret the condition of man, is always a prominent feature of revolutions, wars, and other circumstances in which individuals are called upon to perform extraordinary action.

~ Stanley Milgram

I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a picnic and that I was no picnic myself.

~ Philip Roth

The human brain works by identifying patterns. It uses information from the past to understand what is happening in the present and to anticipate the future. This strategy works elegantly in most situations. But we inevitably see patterns where they don’t exist. In other words, we are slow to recognize exceptions. There is also the peer-pressure factor. All of us have been in situations that looked ominous, and they almost always turn out to be innocuous. If we behave otherwise, we risk social embarrassment by overreacting. So we err on the side of underreacting.

~ Amanda Ripley

BEHAVIOR is the bridge between what you want and what you have.

~ Steve Maraboli

When someone tries to make life miserable for you, remember, they are fighting a losing battle with themselves.

~ Amitav Chowdhury

Our thoughts shape how we behave.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Big data is based on the feedback economy where the Internet of Things places sensors on more and more equipment. More and more data is being generated as medical records are digitized, more stores have loyalty cards to track consumer purchases, and people are wearing health-tracking devices. Generally, big data is more about looking at behavior, rather than monitoring transactions, which is the domain of traditional relational databases. As the cost of storage is dropping, companies track more and more data to look for patterns and build predictive models.

~ Neil Dunlop

[She] had the indefinable charm of someone who said little but thought much. Miss Prim had always felt that such people were at a marked advantage. They never said anything tactless, never spouted nonsense, never had cause to regret their words or justify themselves.

~ Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera

Behavior is math: Truth is found in the sum of its parts.

~ Steve Maraboli

If someone stops where they should not, they’ll stop anywhere. If someone slights a person they should treat generously, they’ll slight anyone. And if someone races ahead, they retreat in a hurry.

~ Mencius

People's behavior depends upon their current situation and past experience.

~ Jenil Kanani

Remorse shows the difference between a cruel person and one that is not.

~ Federico Chini

Behavior isn't something someone has. Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, past experiences, and immediate context.

~ L. Todd Rose

You don’t say, “I’m sorry,”’ he says. ‘Getting injections, and experiencing pain, is part of life. There’s no reason to apologize for that.’ He seems to be channelling Rousseau, who said, ‘If by too much care you spare them every kind of discomfort, you are preparing great miseries for them.’ (I’m not sure what Rousseau thought about suppositories.)

~ Pamela Druckerman

When you get scared, embarrassed, angry, nervous, with full of emotion and bad thoughts, remember to maintain your discipline. It earns you respect the more.

~ Auliq Ice

You've probably missed out something really great but you haven't let that drive you insane but always remember to be yourself.

~ Auliq Ice

If they do it often, it isn’t a mistake; it’s just their behavior.

~ Steve Maraboli

Organizations can’t change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior—and changing behavior is hard.

~ Keith Ferrazzi

I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits.

~ Philip Pullman

People now a days are in business of minding other's business.

~ Kartik Mehta

Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It’s an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don’t see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Severe punishment unquestionably has an immediate effect in reducing a tendency to act in a given way. This result is no doubt responsible for its widespread use. We 'instinctively' attack anyone whose behavior displeases us - perhaps not in physical assault, but with criticism, disapproval, blame, or ridicule. Whether or not there is an inherited tendency to do this, the immediate effect of the practice is reinforcing enough to explain its currency. In the long run, however, punishment does not actually eliminate behavior from a repertoire, and its temporary achievement is obtained at tremendous cost in reducing the over-all efficiency and happiness of the group. (p. 190)

~ B.f. Skinner

The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response to be forgotten. The technique seems to be relatively free of objectionable by-products. We recommend it, for example when we suggest that a parent 'pay no attention' to objectionable behavior on the part of his child. If the child's behavior is strong only because it has been reinforced by 'getting a rise out of' the parent, it will disappear when this consequence is no longer forthcoming. (p. 192)

~ B.f. Skinner

In my opinion, being a Christian is a noticeable behavior. If you have to tell somebody you’re a Christian, then you’re probably not doing it right.

~ Steve Maraboli

You want to BE happy and HAVE success? Join those words, BE+HAVE… To experience success in your life requires that you decide what you want and BEHAVE accordingly.

~ Steve Maraboli

I understand that you are under a lot of pressure and that it's hard being a bride. That is all well and good. But it does not, ever, entitle you to be rude, selfish, uncaring, and generally obnoxious to me or Haven or anyone else. We've been very patient with you because we're your family and we love you, but it stops here. I don't care if the wedding is two weeks or two hours away, you were never raised to behave this way.

~ Sarah Dessen

Just because we live in a world of chaos and madness doesn’t mean we have to subscribe to that sort of behavior.

~ J.m. Northup

If they do it often, it isn't a mistake; it’s just their behavior.

~ Steve Maraboli

Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.

~ Brené Brown

Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

You can teach a child the importance of pain by your behavior. You can also teach as child the importance of no pain by your behavior.

~ Milton H. Erickson

Set a high standard on how you treat women. Whether they appreciate it or not, don’t lower your own standards of behavior.

~ Steve Maraboli

LOVE – PEACE – SUCCESS: When they are what we desire, they fuel our hope… When they are seen in our behavior, they change our lives.

~ Steve Maraboli

Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them.

~ Patti Digh

How differently we behave in other peoples countries ... no sooner than we think we can get away with it, we do as we please. It doesn't require the breakdown of a social order. It takes a six-hour plane flight.

~ Aminatta Forna

If in doubt, keep quiet. Play safe, talk less, and observe.

~ Alison Golden

As believers, everything we do is based on how we view God.

~ Hayley Dimarco

We are what we adapt to.

~ Carter Stroud

The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone.

~ Lara Santoro

We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less highly developed animals than ourselves. In fact, however, the extremes of brutal behavior are confined to us: there exists no parallel in nature to our savage treatment of each other. The unmistakable truth is that man is the most vicious and cruel species that ever walked the earth.

~ Hans Askenasy