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Behavior Quotes
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato
Knowledge
,
Human Behavior
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Desire
,
Three
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mirror
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Everyone
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Image
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Shows
,
Which
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
Alex Haley
Racism
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Society
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Physical
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Learned
,
Our
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
Patrick J. Kennedy
Change
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Fear
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Society
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Uncertainty
,
Try
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Stephen Hawking
Women
,
Mathematics
,
People
,
Universe
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
Change
,
Personality
,
Self
,
Key
,
You
Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.
Frances Hesselbein
Leadership
,
Practice
,
Language
,
Values
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere
Patience
,
Wisdom
,
Man
,
Wise
,
Best
,
Him
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Emily Dickinson
Man
,
He
,
Believes
,
Thinks
,
Does
,
Feels
People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
Johnny Depp
People
,
Sickness
,
Me
,
Choices
,
Strange
Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty.
Melody Beattie
Time
,
Challenge
,
Angry
,
Feel
,
Person
As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.
Peter Gabriel
You
,
Environment
,
Human Behavior
,
Will
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.
Philip Zimbardo
History
,
Training
,
Moral
,
Environment
I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.
Joe Wilson
Best
,
I Am
,
Gentleman
,
Natural
,
Am
The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.
Charles Stanley
Integrity
,
God
,
Character
,
Time
,
Alone
Acknowledging the unproductive thoughts and ineffective behavior that you've tried to ignore can be uncomfortable. But, stepping out of your comfort zone and choosing to proactively address bad habits will skyrocket your ability to create long-lasting change.
Amy Morin
Change
,
Thoughts
,
Comfort Zone
,
Ignore
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Warren Buffett
People
,
Direction
,
Better
,
You
,
Out
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.
Ezra Taft Benson
Kindness
,
Nature
,
Young
,
Kind
,
Feelings
The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges.
Nicholas A. Christakis
Today
,
Challenges
,
Understanding
,
Need
Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.
Albert Bandura
Human Behavior
,
Modeling
,
Others
,
Human
Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity set the expectations for behavior; they set a standard for our work. More than just a motto, for the men and women of the FBI, Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity is a way of life.
Robert Mueller
Life
,
Work
,
Women
,
Integrity
,
Motto
,
Men
I make mistakes daily, letting generalizations creep into my thoughts and negatively affect my behavior. These mistakes have taught me that the first step to successfully choosing kindness is being more mindful about it, letting go of impatience and intolerance along the way.
Daniel Lubetzky
Kindness
,
Daily
,
Step
,
Thoughts
,
Me
,
Go
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Abraham Maslow
Communication
,
Thoughts
,
Language
,
Way
In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.
Ray Bradbury
Life
,
Mirror
,
Day
,
Myself
,
Happy
,
Joy
Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.
Patricia Heaton
People
,
Me
,
Rude
,
Own
,
My Own
,
Sure
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
B. F. Skinner
Environment
,
Kind
,
Way
,
Everyone
,
Apply
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