Behavior Quotes

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

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?

For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

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

Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

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.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.

I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.

I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

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

'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.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

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

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

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

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.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.