Behavior Quotes

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

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.

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.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

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

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

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.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.