Behavior Quotes

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

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

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.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

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

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.

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.

It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.

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

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

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

Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.

Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.

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.

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

Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

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

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.