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Quotes About Behavior

Nunca bebo agua, me preocupa que pueda convertirse en un hábito.
~ W. C. Fields
Unless man learns to control the sinner, the animal in himself, he can never release his full accomplishment.
~ W. Clement Stone
each new decision that a child or an adult makes in a given set of circumstances begins patterns of thought that later create a tremendous impact in his life.
~ W. Clement Stone
On production floors and in corporate offices, sociological verbiage has replaced a basic understanding of human behavior.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
~ W. H. Davies
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The end of culture is right living.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
by our lofty standards animals are poor liars.
~ Unknown
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
~ W.E.B. DuBois
Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
~ Ernest Hemingway
... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.
~ Jared Diamond
Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.
~ Marianne Faithfull
You're always a kid around your parents… Unless they're acting like children. Then you don't get the chance.
~ Sarah Dessen
If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.
~ Pierre Dukan
You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is not possible not to communicate.
~ Paul Watzlawick
Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!
~ Jan Carlzon
Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
~ Thom Mayne
We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.
~ Joseph Parker
It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
~ Menander