561 Behavior Quotes for You to Enjoy

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior. Jean Piaget

Behavior Purely Individual Between Form Us Intermediate Appears Socialized

The implications of likability are long-lasting and serious. Women adjust their behavior to be likable and as a result have less power in the world. And this desire to be liked and accepted goes beyond the boardroom - it's an issue that comes up for women in their personal lives as well, especially as they become more opinionated and outspoken. Jessica Valenti

Women World Result Behavior Power Become Adjust More Outspoken Long-Lasting Implications Likable Beyond Liked Well Accepted Opinionated Issue Up Personal Goes Personal Lives Less Serious Lives Desire

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 Heart Behavior Purest Allied Outward Courtesy Springs To Love

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. John Oliver

Behavior Think Puns Wit Human Just Human Behavior Form Lowest Lowest Form

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. Lauren Bacall

Life Great You Behavior Sickness Not Talking Think Unacceptable Kind About Absolutely Cruise Talk Vulgar Talking Private His Private Life Sell Shocking Commercially Anything Inappropriate Use Your Whole Tom Tom Cruise Actor Great Actor

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. Lewis Thomas

Nature Humanity Behavior Nothing Live Other Our Unaccountable Unpredictable Threatening Obliged Toward Most Itself Which Strangest Each Phenomena

'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior. Luanne Rice

Darkness Behavior Fly Moon First Stars Those Worst Hides About Something Kisses Layers Enchanted Celestial Shooting Owls Heavenly Human Heavenly Bodies Human Behavior Romantic Happen Little Meaning Bodies Night Phenomenon

Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight. Maelle Gavet

Me You Anger Experience Witness Behavior Old Men Fall Humour Once Deflect Sexist Dinosaurs Silent Rather Unrealistic Habits Occasionally Always Still Overnight Comments Expect Than Die Die Hard Taught After Which While Should Hard

We have to stop rewarding bad behavior. Natalie Cole

Behavior Bad Bad Behavior Rewarding Stop

I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don't think that's uncommon with people with very successful parents. Robert C. Merton

Me People Behavior Father Parents Field Think Other Indeed Pressed Case Direction Uncommon Never He Academics Terms Go Very Move Influenced Far Successful Largely Things

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Ronald Kessler

Future Best Behavior Past New Academy Predictor Agents Teaches

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Innovation Enemy Behavior Mindless Habitual

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so. Sharon Stone

Change People Behavior Unless Makes Difference Them

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior. Sherwin B. Nuland

Acceptance Matter Behavior Ethics Group Other Morality Arises How Hand Times Personal Commitments Dismissed Conscience Societal Widespread

Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism. Simon Mainwaring

History Capitalism Behavior Numerous Else Find Examples Fact Tend Throughout Look Gluttony Were Self-Serving Behaviors The History Of Anyone Anyone Else Whether Might Far Far And Wide Wide Disregard Need Harm

There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior. Stewart Butterfield

Behavior Automation Lot Replacement Happen Humans

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. Thomas Carlyle

Life Behavior Individual New Cease Ceases Intelligent Turns Appear

I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible would be it, no question. I'm fascinated by human behavior; observing people and seeing how much story gets told without a lot of dialogue, and how much our brain fills in. Thomas Schlamme

People Behavior Our Say Embarrassment Would Would-Be Seeing Superpower No Question Could Observing Invisible Voyeur Without How How Much Dialogue Brain Question Lot Gets Human Being Human Behavior Story If I Could Much Fascinated Fills

Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourette's Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior. Tim Howard

Age World Behavior Syndrome Kid Outburst Trigger Vocal Facial Compulsive Could Had Obsessive New New Jersey Brain Goalkeeper Any Manchester Manchester United Disorder Who United Jersey Cope Early Early Age Speech

When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors. Timothy Leary

Knowledge Personality Behavior Will Past Our Ancestors Systematic Possible Determine Determined More Advanced Study Implied Documents Historical Human Literary Views Expressed Expressive

From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain. Timothy Leary

Behavior First Changes Relating Software Paper Systematically Has-Been Obsession How Been Brain Existence Human Experiences Human Existence Published Inner External

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable. Adam Baldwin

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