Behaviour Quotes

All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural plan of the body and the system of behaviour of a species are parts of the same whole.... Wordsworth is right: there is only one being in possession of weapons which do not grow on his body and of whose working plan, therefore, the instincts of his species know nothing and in the usage of which he has no correspondingly adequate inhibition.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.

Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.

Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

Selling your life to sit in a box and work for a machine. An uncaring machine that demands productivity that doesn't understand you and doesn't want to understand you... There's no natural behaviour. Everyone is wearing clothes they don't want to wear. Everybody is showing up and doing something they don't want to do. They have no connection to it. That's the problem with our society.

Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour.

The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental activity can all be regarded as morphic fields which contain an inherent memory.

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.

If diphtheria is a disease caused by a microorganism, it is essential that three postulates be fulfilled. The fulfilment of these postulates is necessary in order to demonstrate strictly the parasitic nature of a disease: 1) The organism must be shown to be constantly present in characteristic form and arrangement in the diseased tissue. 2) The organism which, from its behaviour appears to be responsible for the disease, must be isolated and grown in pure culture. 3) The pure culture must be shown to induce the disease experimentally. An early statement of Koch's postulates.

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.

God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.

Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose no merit will stop immoral behaviour.

Most organisations have a serial bully. It never ceases to amaze me how one person's divisive dysfunctional behaviour can permeate the entire organisation like a cancer.

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moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour,
or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt,
though we know that it is possible,
absolutely speaking,
that they may be false.

We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour

I can't wait to be seen as a woman. But I know I probably have to contribute to that with behaviour.

The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms of large-scale integration that counterbalance the distributed anatomical and functional organization of brain activity to enable the emergence of coherent behaviour and cognition. Although the mechanisms involved in large-scale integration are still largely unknown, we argue that the most plausible candidate is the formation of dynamic links mediated by synchrony over multiple frequency bands.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand

The vehemence with which a person denies the existence of the serial bully is directly proportional to the congruence of the person's behaviour with that of the serial bully

If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.

Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

When you are stressed on mind...to pour it out, is the behaviour, most kind!

Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own....Stand still, be quiet.

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.

Young Michael Brown is still somewhat of a wild-child, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour!!

Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour.

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern.

For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging cycle. It's sort of damaging your relationships, friends or lovers, it's damaging your own personal health and it's damaging for you and your workplace.

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.