Behave Quotes - Page 17

• What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people don't accept your authority then you don't have it. Perhaps the critical thing to being a convincing figure of authority is actually not to try too hard.

  Patrick Stewart

  Kings, People, Trying

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• I believe that a nuclear Iraq can change its fundamental dynamic, affecting how others behave - toward us and toward allies such as Israel - and emboldening Saddam Hussein to believe, rightly or wrongly, that he can attack his neighbors and, because of his nuclear capability, we will hesitate.

  Sandy Berger

  Believe, Israel, Iraq

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• A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Discovery, Iron

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• Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

  Warren Weaver

  Animal, People, Religion

  Warren Weaver (1967). “Science and Imagination: Selected Papers”

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• The experiments made on the mutual electrical relations of bodies have taught us that they can be divided into two classes: electropositive and electronegative. The simple bodies which belong to the first class, as well as their oxides, always take up positive electricity when they meet simple bodies or oxides belonging to the second class; and the oxides of the first class always behave with the oxides of the other like salifiable bases with acids.

  Jons Jacob Berzelius

  Simple, Oxygen, Taught Us

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• No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Hate, Character

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• Yes, I believe you can be right with God and still not like the way some people behave. Our admonition is to love them in a larger and more comprehensive way because we are all one in Christ Jesus. This kind of love is indeed a Christian virtue!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• In the end I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and that people can be trusted to behave decently if only you will let them alone.

  George Orwell

  Government, Punishment, People

  "Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell".

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• If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

  Margaret Atwood

  Moving, Pedestal, Rooms

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• Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.
  Paulo Coelho Quotes From Like the Flowing River
  “Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

  Paulo Coelho

  Flames, Rivers, People

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• When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Rabbits, Juan, Toes

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• I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

  Strong, People, Support

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• We can't behave like crocodiles and cry over spilled milk and broken eggs.

  Giovanni Trapattoni

  Eggs, Broken, Milk

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• The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally.

  Deborah

  Way, Satisfaction, Life Is

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• When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Drawing, Pieces, Stylist

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• The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Growing Up, Thinking

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• Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

  Alan Perlis

  Mean, Machines, Fit

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• Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.

  Paulo Coelho

  Insanity, Behavior

  "Paulo Coelho speaks to THT". The Himalayan Times Interview, thehimalayantimes.com. April 26, 2009.

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• If we design the environment properly
  It will permit both child and adult to develop safely
  And to behave logically.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Men, Design

  "And It Came to Pass — Not to Stay".

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• Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Savages, Ifs

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• How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard, I will find that dozens of behaviors change automatically. If, for example, I increase my feelings of self-competence, I will probably be less defensive, less angered by criticism, less devastated if I do not get a raise, less anxious when I come to work, better able to make decisions, and more able to appreciate and praise other people.

  William Schutz

  Behavior Change, Self, Appreciate

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• Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Father, Government

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.28, Canongate Books

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• One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Feelings, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2044, Delphi Classics

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• Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Men, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.336, Harvard University Press

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• Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.

  Donald Fehr

  People, Perfection, Faults

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