Behavior Quotes

I've had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn't have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with.

I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

There are some heterosexuals that have heterosexual behavior that is appalling sexually, that is deviant and bad and not really moral and Christ-like and biblical. But those people are never questioned as to whether or not they're allowed to be a parent.

The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

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.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.

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.