Behavior Quotes - Page 7

• It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

  Margaret Mead

  Fear, Fog, Punishment

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• Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Integrity, Past, Essence

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Talking, Wife, Car

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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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• Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Looks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.55

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  Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Education, Wisdom

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.132, Ballantine Books

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• We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Change, Hope, Fear

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• Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

  J. C. Watts

  Integrity, Character, Thinking

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• Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Animal, Inner Beauty

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• Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

  Carolina Herrera

  Fashion, Self Esteem, Reading

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• You are a guest of nature - behave.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Nature, Guests, Behave

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• I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak

  Wisdom, Islamic, Learning

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• Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Moving, Men, Two

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.708, Regnery Publishing

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Life, Distance, Animal

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Anger, Society, Identity

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

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• Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Perfect, Behaviour, Indifference

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• 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

  Funny, Money, Business

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• No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

  Madeleine Albright

  Wish, Might, Matter

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• Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

  Marc Morial

  Gun, Practice, Aim

  "Gun litigation follows example of tobacco cases" by Kathleen Koch, www.cnn.com. June 6, 1999.

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• I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

  Dean Koontz

  Thinking, Race, Judging

  "Contemplating Evil". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Lisa Snell, reason.com. November 1996.

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• I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Dream, People, Assumption

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• The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, School

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• There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Spring, Heart

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• We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

  Douglas Horton

  Pardon Me, Sentences, Serving

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