Behavior Quotes - page 10

At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior. (Kris Carr)
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray. View quote
Laura Schlessinger
Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are. View quote
Louise Penny
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person. View quote
Paul Watzlawick
Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when they are at work, then the most unnatural behavior, which only appears in late stages or abnormal cases, would be to behave as separate Egos. Under normal circumstances they work in common, each a meaningfully functioning part of the whole. View quote
Max Wertheimer
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance. View quote
Naomi Wolf
The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges. View quote
Nicholas A. Christakis
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface. View quote
James Bryant Conant
But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire. View quote
Benjamin Lee Whorf
I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.' View quote
Demetri Martin
Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer. (Edward Thorndike)
The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways. View quote
William H. McNeill
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed. View quote
Amy Waldman
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort. View quote
Andrew Greeley
Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself. View quote
Anita Hill
Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior, slotted into broad diagnostic pigeonholes and provided generalized treatments that may not always meet their specific needs. View quote
Aditi Shankardass
I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity. View quote
Beth Moore
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive. View quote
Barbara Deming
The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want. View quote
Brion James
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. View quote
Bruce Henderson
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive. (Bruce Jay Friedman)
Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space. View quote
Charles Simonyi
My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down. View quote
Chris Zylka
I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature. View quote
Christopher Meloni
Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work. View quote
Cindy Sherman