Behavior Quotes - page 8

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior. (Jon Postel)
One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user-consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms. View quote
Fernando J. Corbató
nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging. View quote
John Henry Holland
The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions. View quote
John Henry Holland
Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings. View quote
John Kotter
Valued achievements connect to people at a deeper level-and a deeper level can change behavior that is generally very difficult to change. View quote
John Kotter
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior. View quote
Albert Einstein
The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has degenerated in its realization to the socialized and apathetic behavior of passengers who hardly look out the windows. View quote
Paul Goodman
In behavior, as in appearance, every human individual is unique. View quote
Matt Ridley
You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient. View quote
Geoffrey West
I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular. (Errol Morris)
If you don't have a conscience, what is your behavior like? Apparently, if you don't have a conscience, if you don't really . . . love, then the only thing that's left for you is the game - it's about controlling things. View quote
Martha Stout
To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior is withholding your attention. View quote
Masaru Emoto
Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty. View quote
Melody Beattie
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. View quote
Melody Beattie
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people. View quote
Andre Norton
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this... this--' 'School? View quote
Rick Riordan
There is indeed good and there is indeed evil, and both walk the earth. But good has little to do with the forms of religion, and evil has as little to do with so much behavior condemned by religion. Both good and evil vie for the passions of the heart. For love! View quote
Ted Dekker
Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions. (Tess Gerritsen)
Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior. View quote
Tim Robbins
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable. View quote
Fannie Flagg
Just like you, your partner wants to be loved for who they are, in spite of their shortcomings. Make an effort to let them know they are loved, even if some of their behavior is not. Work towards co-creative solutions. View quote
Arielle Ford
Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate. View quote
Helen Fisher