Behavior Quotes

Religion is behavior and not mere belief.

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.

Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.

The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority.

Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.

Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

You are a guest of nature - behave.

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone’s behavior.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

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.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

Our behavior toward others is often a reflection of our treatment of ourselves.

I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'.

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed or ridiculed and Christians are considered suspect and their motives and behavior berated.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.

Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

Always act as if you were seen.

The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

Whoever alters a person's expectations changes his behavior.

Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.