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Quotes About Behavior

Professor Asshole would never hold a door open, considering it a condescending, paternalistic passive-aggressive gesture perpetuating the male power structure.
~ Don Winslow
The problem with the designs of most engineers is that they are too logical. We have to accept human behavior the way it is, not the way we would wish it to be.
~ Donald A. Norman
We must design for the way people behave, not for how we would wish them to behave.
~ Donald A. Norman
Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations.
~ Donald Antrim
When you act like a nice guy, everyone examines your motives with a microscope. When you act like a conscienceless louse, they generally take you at face value.
~ Donald Hamilton
To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors.
~ Donald L. Hicks
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
~ Billie Holiday
We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves.
~ Rudolf Dreikurs
People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.
~ F. Matthias Alexander
You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.
~ Bruno Bettelheim
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.
~ Alfred Marshall
The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.
~ Rick Warren
Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
~ William James
Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.
~ Chiang Kai-shek
In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
~ Steve Jobs
Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
~ Margaret Mead
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
~ Deepak Chopra
Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.
~ Alfred Adler
It's not about what you wear, but about how you live your life
~ Oscar de la Renta
You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.
~ Bill Ayers
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha