Behavior Quotes
It's always important for me as an actor to reflect human behavior for a sense of reality.
Barbara Parkins was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly.
Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.
There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment.
It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or rewards.
Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in spite of some behavior that defies common sense.
Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.
If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.
However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.
Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people are at their worst.
When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction.
I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.
This hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different.
Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.
Cynicism is an enormous problem. I'm actually a hopeful person. But the way to stay hopeful is to acknowledge and to not accept what is absolutely amoral, mentally ill behavior as normal.
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.
I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.
Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills
I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and that’s what dogs do.
It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.
In Genesis, it is stated God walked on Earth. He was there on the level. After watching human behavior, he ascended having had enough of us and decided to watch over us instead.
At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.
Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.
Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.
My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down.
What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.
But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?
I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.