Behavior famous quotes
07-10-2025
-
My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
-- A. E. van Vogt -
What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
-- Al Ries -
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
-- Albert Bandura -
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.
-- Albert Ellis -
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
-- Albert Ellis -
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.
-- Alexander Elder -
I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.
-- Amy Smart -
The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.
-- Anatol Rapoport -
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.
-- Andrew Greeley -
Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
-- Anita Brookner -
Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.
-- Anthony Daniels -
Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.
-- Apuleius -
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
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.
-- Arthur Rock -
The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going.
-- Aubrey Daniels -
Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences
-- B. F. Skinner -
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
-- B. F. Skinner -
Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
-- B. F. Skinner -
The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.
-- B. F. Skinner -
That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
-- B. F. Skinner -
It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
-- B. F. Skinner -
We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.
-- Bert Holldobler -
The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
-- Bill Hybels -
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
-- Boethius -
Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
-- Boyd K. Packer -
We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs. ... We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to become.
-- Brandon Mull -
You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.
-- Brené Brown -
You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.
-- Brian Tracy -
You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior -- especially under pressure.
-- Brian Tracy -
What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.
-- Brian Tracy -
The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.
-- Brion James -
If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.
-- C. Everett Koop -
Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior.
-- Caitlin Stasey -
Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.
-- Carl Rogers -
If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.
-- Carol Plum-Ucci -
The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.
-- Carroll Quigley -
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
-- Cesare Pavese -
Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.
-- Charles Stanley -
We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.
-- Chen Shui-bian -
No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.
-- Cherie Carter-Scott -
The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.
-- Chris Prentiss -
You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.
-- Chris Prentiss -
A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors
-- Clay Shirky -
Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.
-- Clay Shirky -
Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity
-- Clay Shirky -
I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.
-- Colleen McCullough -
With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.
-- Dan Ariely -
But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?
-- Dan Ariely -
Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even single-mindedly, motivated to feel happy.
-- Daniel Gilbert -
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
-- Daniel Gillies -
Your behavior is based on your beliefs, and what you do and say, over and over again, helps develop your habits.
-- Darren Johnson -
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.
-- David Brin -
Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.
-- David Caruso -
I just want to make it clear that I admit that that's rapey behavior, but I am not a rapist,
-- David Choe -
In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.
-- David Fincher -
In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.
-- David Perlmutter -
So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.
-- Deb Caletti -
Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.
-- Denis Waitley -
I don't judge people by their theology, I judge them by their behavior
-- Dennis Prager -
I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.
-- Diahann Carroll -
Frank is capable of any kind of behavior to win.
-- Don Burr -
Deep and sustainable change...requires changes in behavior among those who do not welcome the change.
-- Douglas B. Reeves -
What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?
-- Douglas Coupland -
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
-- Douglas Horton -
Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer
-- Edward Thorndike -
Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.
-- Eliot Spitzer -
Creativity is no excuse for obnoxious behavior
-- Elizabeth Chandler -
He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.
-- Emilie Autumn -
I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
-- Errol Morris -
Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.
-- F. F. Bruce -
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.
-- Fannie Flagg -
The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.
-- Francis Collins -
If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members
-- Francis Fukuyama -
Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.
-- Frank Spotnitz -
Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.
-- Frans de Waal -
The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
-- Freda Adler -
Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.
-- Frederic Dan Huntington -
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.
-- G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. -
Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior.
-- Gail Simone -
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.
-- Garrett Hardin -
I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds
-- Garrison Wynn -
You can't change people but you can effect a change in them by your behavior.
-- Garrison Wynn -
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
-- Gary Bauer -
Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.
-- Gary Becker -
Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
-- Gene Tierney
