Behavior Quotes - Page 3

• Men in all societies possess the biological equipment to remove their hats or shoes, but it is the birth within a particular culture that decides that a Jew will keep his hat and shoes on in his place of worship, a Mohammedan will take off his shoes, and a Christian will keep his shoes on but remove his hat.

  Peter Farb

  Christian, Men, Shoes

  PETER FARB (1968). “MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION”

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• The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.

  Temple Grandin

  Relax, Machines, May

  Interview With Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com.

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• I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

  Julia Stiles

  Analyzing, Humans, Complexes

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• A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

  Joyce Cary

  Mother, Children, Father

  Joyce Cary (1953). “Except the Lord: A Novel”, New York : Harper

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• What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Country, Arms, Ethical

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• There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.

  Paul Dirac

  Atoms, World, Opinion

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• The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

  R. D. Laing

  Life, Science, Order

  Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 5

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• Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

  Andrew Greeley

  Engagement, Surveys, Humans

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• 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

  Creating, Trying, Warfare

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• Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose.

  George Meredith

  Success, Sports, Running

  "The Complete Works of George Meredith".

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• The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Contradiction, Humans, Fascinating

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• For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Able, Life Is

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• Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

  Jessica Walter

  Kind, Desperate, Justification

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• As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Engagement, Anti Semitic, Accused

  "The veil? It protects us from ugly women" by Adar Primor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself

  Anita Hill

  Differences, People, Important

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• All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

  John Boorman

  Stories, Legends, Myth

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• The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Sports, Educational, Race

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• To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Links, Problem

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

  Martin Feldstein

  Judgement, Reason Why, Financial

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• At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

  John Carmack

  Winning, Games, Subjectivity

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• It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Use, Growing, Way

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.405, Delphi Classics

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• When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.

  Glenn Close

  Blood, Upset, Fatal Attraction

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• Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

  Arthur Rock

  Firsts, Figures, Meetings

  Stanford University interview, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.

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• Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

  G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

  Car, Kind, Dealer

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