Behavior Quotes - Page 6

• Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Quality, Action, Management

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• We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

  Jerry Springer

  Mainstream Society, Television, Panorama

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• Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

  Ruth Benedict

  Men, Details, Constitution

  RUTH BENEDICT (1934). “PATTERNS OF CULTURE”

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• Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

  John Walters

  Friends, Track, Parent

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• Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise.

  Brian Tracy

  Believe, Mean, People

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 27, 2014

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• The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

  Earl Warren

  Character, Men, Mazes

  Earl Warren's Speech at the Louis Marshall Award Dinner of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Americana Hotel, New York City, November 11, 1962.

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• To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

  Willard Gaylin

  Men, Distortion, Term

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• The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

  George Stigler

  Competition, Challenges, Citizens

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.

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• The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  White, Space, House

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.

  Sharon Anthony Bower

  Compassion, Rights, Differences

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• 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, Character, Mean

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• Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Political, May

  Speech, Nashville, Tenn., 27 Dec. 1962

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• 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

  Inspirational, Integrity, Character

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• The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Mean, Common

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Evil, Humanity, Individual

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• Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.

  Joel Osteen

  Judging, People, Understanding

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• We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Patriotism, Literature, Civilized

  "Romulus the Great" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, act I, 1956.

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• When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole

  John Lydon

  Funny, Attitude, Talking

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• True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

  Dalai Lama

  Change, Wise, Wisdom

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

  Alfred Adler

  Relationship, Sex, Patterns

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• Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

  Andre Norton

  Cat, People, Creative

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• Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Plastic, Social Psychology, Humans

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• My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Study, Theory, Humans

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• In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Facts, Quantum, Heavy

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• I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Character, Order, Survival

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