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Quotes about Behavior
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“Still people are dangerous.”
“Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.”
“Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.”
“Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.”
“We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.”
“Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.”
“The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.”
“We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.”
“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.”
“If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.”
“No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.”
“Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.”
“I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.”
“It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.”
“People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.”
“We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.”
“Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.”
“It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.”
“To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.”
“Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.”
“With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.”
“The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.”
“When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.”
“If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.”
“Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.”
“At the time, my grandparents told my mom, ''Lordy, what is Shannen doing?'' Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation for bad behavior]”
“What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.”
“Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.”
“A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.”
“Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.”