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Quotes About Behavior

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
~ R. D. Laing
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.
~ Charles Simonyi
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.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
~ Hortense Calisher
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.
~ William James
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
~ James Mark Baldwin
There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.
~ Jeff Greenfield
I don't know whether guys are more promiscuous or just bigger liars.
~ Jennifer Tour Chayes
When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.
~ Jane Goodall
An action made by an unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common thought and interpretation.
~ Even Engesland
Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?
~ David Pearce
The more you learn the biology behind your every action, emotion and behavior, the better you become at accepting others the way they are.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.
~ Gerald Edelman
An action made by a unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common though and interpretation.
~ Even Engesland
People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn't blame science. People should blame people.
~ Mira Grant, Countdown
The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone.
~ Lara Santoro, The Boy
You don't feel like smiling? Then what? Force yourself to smile. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.
~ Celeste Ng
People also smile when they are miserable.
~ Paul Ekman
Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.
~ Mason Cooley
Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.
~ Jane Austen
Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive!
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.
~ Lord Chesterfield
We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.
~ Antonio Damasio
Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.
~ Allen Tate