Quotes About Behavior

Around 2001, I went to rehab in Arizona, and I started to see what was going on and how the past affected me. I started to get a grip on it. But over the next decade, I reverted to the behaviour I used to protect myself when I was young - being mindless, being defeatist and full of bravado.

Reinforcement is being right.

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

I don't care what religion you are, you cannot say 'I accept certain things but I reject others.' That's not the right behaviour.

I'd read a lot about the psychology around rejection and insecurity, and I had noticed that when people feel insecure or rejected, they behave aggressively, erratically. Especially when you can hide behind a screen name or a profile picture.

Our ways of relating to each other become like habits.

As a clinician, I would never want to be coercive in relation to a patient, nor do I harbor the illusion that as a physician I am capable of forcing someone to change their behavior, no matter how detrimental to their health.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

The CBO does a great job on budget; they do a relatively poor job of what the coverage consequences of a healthcare plan are. Their ability - anybody's ability - to predict what human behavior is going to be, without looking at the entire construct, is difficult.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, I'm pretty laid back and relaxed, but I can get very intense quickly.

Most of us are 'ultraconformists' when it comes to who we are most likely to follow... to socialise with, or even who we are most likely to hire.

Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.

If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

The way people get hooked on fame... it can behave very much like an addiction.

Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body. Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.

There's so much of our behavior that kind of curdles and hardens as we get into adulthood, and it becomes so much more difficult to be hopeful and to dream extravagantly.

I've worked with kids that are just horrendous, and it's mostly because of their parents.

I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody.

Technology favors horrible people.