Behavior Quotes - Page 4

• The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

  M. Scott Peck

  Pain, Lying, Responsibility

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

  Dean Koontz

  True Evil, Ideas, Literature

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• I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.

  Diahann Carroll

  Thinking, Want, Ill

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• But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

  Ron Silver

  Dream, Character, People

  "AT LUNCH WITH Ron Silver; Lights, Camera, Action! Ideas, Activism, Democracy!" by Todd S. Purdum, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1993.

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• We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

  Zoe Lofgren

  Government, Election, Threatening

  "Congressmen hit talk show circuit". www.cnn.com.

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• The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

  John Buford

  Night, Men, June

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• Your behavior is based on your beliefs, and what you do and say, over and over again, helps develop your habits.

  Darren Johnson

  Helping, Belief, Habit

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• Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Understanding, Influence

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• What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.

  Bill Vaughan

  Dog, Kings, Shoes

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• In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Littles, Matter

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• I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

  John Perry Barlow

  Law, Personal Behavior, Stills

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• Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

  Larry Elder

  Principles, Roles, Charity

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• The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

  Abraham Maslow

  Reality, People, Giving

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• I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Talking, Standards, Certain

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• The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, New Year, Clever

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.138, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

  Pope Paul VI

  Change, Men, Technology

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• Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

  Garrett Hardin

  Doe, Unbearable, Harm

  Garrett James Hardin (1972). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”, Viking Adult

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• You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

  Linus Torvalds

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• Spry is not a look, spry is behavior.

  Robert Culp

  Looks

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• I am a victim of my own behavior.

  Henry R Brandt

  Life, Victim, My Own

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• Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Law, Should

  "The Hypocrites of Homosexuality" by Orson Scott Card in Sunstone Magazine, www.nauvoo.com. 1990.

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• I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

  Albert Ellis

  Age, Eclectic Style, Public Speaking

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• I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

  Albert Ellis

  Therapists, Used, Term

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