Behavior Quotes

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

Drunken behavior will not be tolerated, except by those who are being hilarious.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior.

I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.

If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what possible constraint on their behavior does anyone think will remain?

Lying, cheating, hiding is the exact opposite of the behavior of a man who's really into you.

Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it’s a good technique.

Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.

You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What it can do, what it can't do.

If you take control of your behavior, your emotions will fall into place.

Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior.

The people who have the biggest passion for restricting other people's behavior are the very people we should worry about most. Unfortunately, they keep running for office.

At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.

We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.

Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepressants.

It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.

And so, surpassing my own records for dangerous, reckless behavior, I ripped off Sonya's bracelet. "I'm Rose Hathaway.

Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.

Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.

Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.

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.

We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.

Dogs own space and cats own time.

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

Religious beliefs...should never be an excuse to treat people badly.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes learned behavior.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.