Quotes and Sayings About Behavior
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Behavior shapes emotions.
-- A. J. JacobsSource : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.282, Simon and Schuster
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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 -
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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.
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Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
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Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.
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The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.
-- Alexander ElderSource : Alexander Elder (1993). “Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management”, p.39, John Wiley & Sons
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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.
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We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.
-- Alfred KinseySource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.
-- Amy SmartSource : Interview with Sabbott, www.ign.com. August 26, 2001.
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The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.
-- Anatol RapoportSource : "Toward Definition of Mind" edited by Jordan Ma Scher, Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press, (p. 92), 1962.
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Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.
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Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
-- Anita BrooknerSource : Anita Brookner (1985). “Look at me”, Plume
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Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.
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Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.
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Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
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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 RockSource : Stanford University interview, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.
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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.
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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 -
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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. SkinnerSource : B.F Skinner (2012). “Science And Human Behavior”, p.65, Simon and Schuster
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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.
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We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.
-- Bert HolldoblerSource : Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson (1990). “The Ants”, p.370, Harvard University Press
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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 HybelsSource : "The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.