Behavior Patterns Quotes:

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Motivational, Character, Patterns, Behavior Patterns

Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort, I think we can overcome any form of negative conditioning and make positive changes in our lives. But we need to remember that genuine change doesn't happen overnight.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Behavior Patterns

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

- Margaret Mead

topic: Humanity, Together, Woven, Learned Behavior, Behavior Patterns

We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are.

- Neil Strauss

topic: Mean, Years, May, Behavior Patterns

Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.

- Moshe Feldenkrais

topic: Patterns, Belief, Behavior, Behavior Patterns

Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Law, Hatred, Greed, Learned Behavior, Human Behavior

Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.

- Steven Pinker

topic: Brain, Patterns, Levers, Wiring, Behavior Patterns

Life is unpredictable when you get non-standard behavior patterns.

- Jake Busey

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Patterns, Life Is, Behavior, Behavior Patterns

What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Caring, Thinking, Wind, Baboons, Behavior Patterns

Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

source: "Radiant Mind: Essential Buddhist Teachings and Texts". Book by Jean Smith, 1999.

topic: Karma, Confused, Destiny, Behavior Patterns

The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.

- Reggie Watts

topic: Patterns, Behavior, Settling, Behavior Patterns

Many Christians have what we might call a 'cultural holiness.' They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them...But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.

- Jerry Bridges

topic: Christian, Character, Holiness, Character Of God, Holiness Of God

American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world.

- Thomas Sowell

topic: Country, Years, Negative, American Society, Behavior Patterns

Just as a warrior must anticipate his enemy’s behavior and reactions and understand the dangers, and just as a hunter must know the behavior patterns of animals that he hunts, in order for us to heal, to achieve and maintain a state of mental and physical health,we must be in touch with our body and be aware of the symptoms of illness. Our ability to heal, and the healing process itself, should never be taken for granted. Vanity often keeps us from accepting that we’ll all inevitably face cycles of being weaker and stronger,sicker and healthier.

- Ori Hofmekler

source: Ori Hofmekler (2009). “The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body”, p.11, North Atlantic Books

topic: Taken, Healing, Warrior, Taken For Granted, Behavior Patterns

Adopting the behaviors and habits of surrendered people helps us improve our relationships, feel love and gratitude, get healthier, give up destructive people and behavior patterns, and become more successful and influential in our lives and careers. And that's just the tip of the iceberg as far as benefits go.

- Judith Orloff

topic: Gratitude, Giving Up, Successful, Tip Of The Iceberg, Behavior Patterns

Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you’ll be in some kind of sit-down action.

- Malcolm X

source: "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

topic: Attitude, Philosophy, Thinking, Change Your Thoughts, Behavior Patterns

Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.

- Malcolm X

source: Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.245, Ballantine Books

topic: Men, Self, White Man, Behavior Patterns, Self Opinion

We have to learn to deal with this situation and prepare for contact. Studying the behavior pattern of the phenomenon, I came to the conclusion that they are neither friend nor foe, but study our planet and civilization from a mainly scientific perspective. They are as curious to learn more about us, as we would love to study other human and humanoid civilizations...

- Michael Hesemann

topic: Civilization, Perspective, Patterns, Behavior Patterns

Many of us understand giving, but some of us may still be confused about the meaning of forgiveness. Some people may go through life in a groveling mode, mistakenly believing they have to receive forgiveness from others. Forgiveness offers more than a reprieve granted to us by another person. True forgiveness is a process of giving up the false for the true and allows us to rid our thinking of rigid ideas. We can develop the flexibility to change our mind and our behavior patterns to higher and greater expressions and find new avenues to freedom.

- John Templeton

topic: Giving Up, Confused, Believe, Groveling, Reprieve

We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.

- Fred Hoyle

source: "Lifecloud: The Origin of Life in the Universe". Book by Chandra Wickramasinghe and Fred Hoyle (p. 15), 1978.

topic: Differences, Long, Heritage, External Appearance, Primates

If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.

- William Julius Wilson

topic: Attitude, Opportunity, People, Orientation, Behavior Patterns

Babies are equipped at birth with a number of instinctive reflexes and behavior patterns that cause them to spend their first several years trying to kill themselves. If your home contains a sharp, toxic object, your baby will locate it; if your home contains no such object, your baby will try to obtain one via mail order.

- Dave Barry

topic: Baby, Children, Humorous, Behavior Patterns

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Hatred, Greed, Prejudice, Learned Behavior, Human Behavior

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

- Alfred Adler

topic: Relationship, Sex, Patterns, Behavior Patterns