Behavior Quotes

I always say centered food equals centered behavior.
Marilu Henner

Food, Centered, Equals

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.
Jacques Derrida

Time, School, Long

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.
Lauren Bacall

Life, Great, Talk

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.
Tim Robbins

Good, Heart, Human

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
Mitch Daniels

Government, Needs, Surgery

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Enemy, Innovation, Mindless

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.
Philip Zimbardo

Human, Plastic, Incredibly

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
Philip Zimbardo

Time, Powerful, Human

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.
Lorna Luft

Mother, Her, Last

It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Great, Service, Congress

It's interesting that there are only two groups of people in our country who are not held accountable for their behavior or decisions. One is exempted by the constitution, and that is foreign diplomats. The other, through a loophole, is HMOs.
Debbie Stabenow

Through, Country, Two

Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.
Gallagher

Parents, Trying, Friends

When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.
David Fincher

Someone, Mean, Him

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
Scarlett Johansson

Funny, History, Movies

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
Sally Field

Here, Lose, Present

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.
Martin Feldstein

Science, Why, Cannot

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.
Robert De Niro

Life, Human, Real

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
Richard King

Movies, Television, Level

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.
Chen Shui-bian

Arrogance, Irrational, Refrain

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
Randall Terry

Good, Revolution, Law

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
Gary Bauer

Marriage, Moral, Morality

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
Candice Bergen

Beauty, Between, Distance

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

Education, Men, Human

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
Edward Thorndike

Science, Psychology, Characters

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.
Edward Thorndike

Life, Others, Himself

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

Attempt, Genocide, Alter

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
Kenneth L. Pike

Society, Control, Another

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
Kenneth L. Pike

Language, Meaning, Affect

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
Orson Scott Card

Against, Books, Remain

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.
Roger Bannister

Important, Human, Difficult

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