Quotes About Behavior

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

It's meant I will act like less of an asshole, but feel much more like one.

James 4:6: "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

As the Holy Spirit restores us, He trains our wills to choose thoughts, values and behaviors that bring Him praise.

I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

It doesn't matter how old you are, what level of schooling you've had or where you live—stalking is innate to the female psyche. We've all been there.

When things went right, it was generally because the woman had cleverly manipulated the guy into good dating behavior. He'd call when he said he would. Put some thought into dates. He'd ask questions about her life because she didn't vomit up all her personal history in the first ten minutes.

When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

In the realm of very small quantities prediction becomes uncertain, if not impossible, because very small quantities no longer behave in accordance with the known natural laws.

All parental difficulties reflect themselves without fail in the psyche of the child, sometimes with pathological results.

When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot justify rationally, which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But these strange behaviors turn out to be right in some odd way. At these moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become something larger.

The conviction grows in me that we shall discover laws of personality and behavior which are as significant for human progress or human understanding as the law of gravity or the laws of thermodynamics.

I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning.

It seems to me that anything that can be taught to another is relatively inconsequential, and has little or no significant influence on behavior.

Behavior is basically the goal-directed attempt of the organism to satisfy its needs as experienced, in the field as perceived.

The concept of "cure" is entirely inappropriate, since in most of these disorders we are dealing with learned behavior, not with a disease.

During the process of therapy the individual comes to ask himself, in regard to ever-widening areas of his life-space, "How do I experience this?" "What does it mean to me?" "If I behave in a certain way how do I symbolize the meaning which it will have for me?" He comes to act on a basis of what may be termed realism—a realistic balancing of the satisfactions and dissatisfactions which any action will bring to himself.

Given all this, we can see why the foul-mouthed politician has supplanted the polite and reserved one, because in a world where the inner voice is key to the real person, the former is authentic while the latter presents a public image likely at odds with his private behavior.

In sum, the social imaginary is the way people think about the world, how they imagine it to be, how they act intuitively in relation to it—though that is emphatically not to make the social imaginary simply into a set of identifiable ideas.3 It is the totality of the way we look at our world, to make sense of it and to make sense of our behavior within it.

If we want to take control of our finances, we also have to take responsibility for the many unnecessary purchases we've made--and understand that nothing will change unless we change our behavior.

humanity, bestiality.

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.