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Quotes About Behavior

I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.
~ Marianne Faithfull
Like flossing, frequent engagement with a product, especially over a short period of time, increases the likelihood of forming new routines.
~ Nir Eyal
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn't something to shrug off.
~ Yogi Berra
The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.
~ Joel Garreau
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Good manners require space and time.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.
~ Lee R. Raymond
If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.
~ Nir Eyal
That's insanity. We must be good all the time.
~ Richard Pryor
If there is no evidence that sport lowers aggression, at the same time it should be said that there is also no evidence that sport is motivated by aggression.
~ Erich Fromm
The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.
~ Evan Esar
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
~ Harper Lee
The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
~ Joan D. Vinge
Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.
~ Sendhil Mullainathan
Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
~ Warren Buffett
The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
~ Barry Levinson
Every time we allow someone to move us with anger, we teach them to be angry.
~ Barry Neil Kaufman
I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
~ Billy Connolly
Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible.
~ Dana Gould
If you spent a proper amount of time with me, you would probably wonder if I was on drugs - I'm not. I'm just incredibly hyperactive and manic. I can be quiet and serious at the same time.
~ Daniel Radcliffe