Quotes About Behaviors

#1. The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.

Sam Harris

#2. Our thoughts and desires are based in hope, but our behaviors are based in fear. This misalignment often causes a feeling of hopelessness and continues the cycle of feeding outdated ideologies and Guru genres offering gimmicks to anesthetize the pain.

Steve Maraboli

#3. Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

Randall Terry

#4. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

Jacque Fresco

#5. Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.

Gbenga Akinnagbe

#6. It's been one of the most painful things I've ever been through in my whole life: trying to understand the degree to which behaviors that I thought were totally appropriate were destructive.

Newt Gingrich

#7. People invariably seek the fastest and easiest way to get the things they want, right now, with little or no concern for the long-term consequences of their behaviors.

Brian Tracy

#8. I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home.

Joseph Dougherty

#9. Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.

Sam Kean

#10. I started working with brain sensing tech in labs over a decade ago and was immediately fascinated by the potential to help people peer into the workings and behaviors of their own minds.

Ariel Garten

#11. Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.

Amity Gaige

#12. Look at your own behaviors and ask yourself, "Would I want to be my friend???

Ted Rubin

#13. I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut down, go into denial, and try to start hiding things from yourself and others, that's when you lock in certain behaviors and attitudes that keep you stuck.

Tracy McMillan

#14. By the same rule, though, if we learn to create new neurological routines that overpower those behaviors - if we take control of the habit loop - we can force those bad tendencies into the background,

Charles Duhigg

#15. Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.

Robert Nelson

#16. Like most visions of a 'golden age', the 'traditional family' evaporates on closer examination. It is an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors that never coexisted in the same time and place.

Stephanie Coontz

#17. It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.

Kevin Kelly

#18. Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.

John Katzenbach

#19. IF INDEED THESE VARIOUS ATTACKS IN DIFFERENT STATES ARE LINKED, then we're dealing with a set of highly complex ritual behaviors," said Dr. Lawrence Zucker. A criminal psychologist who served as consultant to Boston PD,

Tess Gerritsen

#20. The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

Gever Tulley

#21. I quickly decided my zombies weren't really zombies. It was instead something you called people who were on this club drug, who then exhibited aggressive behaviors. And then like everyone who writes about zombies, I found it was so much fun.

Jess Walter

#22. The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.

Neale Donald Walsch

#23. Policies are useful tools. Instead of prescribing highly specific behaviors, they supply us with broad guidelines that should make everyday decision making easier and swifter.

Michael Pollan

#24. Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language - a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As with every other element in fiction, it is a record of a writer's decisions.

Noy Holland

#25. Culture consists of the shared purpose, attitudes, values, goals, practices, behaviors, and habits that define a team or organization.

Jon Gordon

#26. Outdated ideas inevitably lead to outdated behaviors.

Steve Maraboli

#27. When you're a part of society there are certain behaviors that aren't okay. If you do these behaviors and then feel nothing, that's worse. But I've been trying to determine when I've ever been a part of society.

Kitty Thomas

#28. New or more information is not what you need - a new plan of action is. It's time to create new behaviors and habits that are oriented away from sabotage and toward success.

Darren Hardy

#29. Even if we change practices or behaviors, we are seeking transformed hearts. We must know in our bones God's heart for equality and wholeness in the Body of Christ then live our lives out of that truth, with invitation and joy, as living prophets of God's way of life.

Sarah Bessey

#30. Don't give up hope. It took many of us twenty years or more to acquire these protective behaviors we umbrella with the word codependency. It may take as much time as that to let go of them.

Melody Beattie

#31. Do not stand in the way of your own good. Get rid of your bad thoughts, inferior attitudes and limited behaviors and good will be attracted to you. What you give out will be returned to you. It's not easy. It's not magic. But it works.

Bryant McGill

#32. Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place.

Jacque Fresco

#33. When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.

Judith Wright

#34. In every case, you must ensure that the organization is really ready to have desired behaviors happen on day one and become business as usual. If you do that, you can feel confident that

Steve Jacobs

#35. We must understand how we responded to formative trauma and how that response is perpetuated today. Otherwise, we will remain stuck in self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, all the while blaming them on someone else.

Russell Willingham

#36. Same ideas don't create same faces but they create same behaviors!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#37. When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.

Antonio Damasio

#38. Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.

Margaret Mead

#39. The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.

Francis Collins

#40. A strategy is nothing more than a commitment to a set of coherent, mutually reinforcing policies or behaviors aimed at achieving a specific competitive goal.

Anonymous

#41. Culture is collective mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors.

Pearl Zhu

#42. Readers can read what they want and easily switch to other books, so we're seeing a lot of reading behaviors. Some verticals attract different usage than others. We can spot reading patterns.

Trip Adler

#43. Behaviors create attitudes.

David McRaney

#44. Practice holding labels lightly as leaders so you have greater range in your behaviors and are more adaptable and effective in a greater range of situations.

Henna Inam

#45. Behind our behaviors are our beliefs. They determine how we think things are and what is possible. The foundation of these beliefs is our conception of who we are, whether we are conscious of it or not.

Ilchi Lee

#46. Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing the love-limiting habits and behaviors of dysfunctional families is a wonderful beginning to lower the fear, allowing us to be real, allowing us all to learn how to love better.

David W. Earle

#47. The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.

Asa Don Brown

#48. Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.

Wayne Dyer

#49. You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

Brene Brown

#50. People tend to look at their businesses from the inside out - that is, they get so focused on making and selling their products that they lose awareness of the needs and buying behaviors of their customers.

Lawrence Bossidy

#51. Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.

Frantz Fanon

#52. A healthy company culture is a set of norms and behaviors that support high performance and supports the team as they move towards ultimate success. Visit these norms regularly. Everybody visits them regularly, from the CEO to the Truck Drivers.

Beth Ramsay

#53. I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself.

Luc Sante

#54. I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

Malcolm Gladwell

#55. Our true nature is steady, receptive, and accepting of everything that happens, including our own misguided conclusions and behaviors.

Gina Lake

#56. A concern with parenting ... must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.

Nancy Chodorow

#57. My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher.

Karen Joy Fowler

#58. Avoiding our fears is the #1 reason we stay trapped in old routines, boring jobs, unhealthy habits, dying relationships, and hang onto bad behaviors that get worse the older we get.

Scott Allan

#59. Codependency is about normal behaviors taken too far. It's about crossing lines.

Melody Beattie

#60. So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

Barry McCaffrey

#61. Before we get any further, I want you to understand that this book will not help you quit smoking or control a gambling addiction. Mini habits are for good habits only - adding positive behaviors to your life

Stephen Guise

#62. Removed from 'Gmail' doesn't necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which Google models our behaviors - the real product it is offering its advertisers.

Douglas Rushkoff

#63. Self-destructive behaviors do not exist because there is a force within us that tries to hasten our return to an inorganic state; they exist because they provide short-term relief from pain that threatens to become intolerable.

David L. Conroy

#64. You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people.

Prince Andrew

#65. I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has been achieved through entirely civil and lawful means, you've had your head in a bucket.

Ellen Kushner

#66. Life is totally subjective which means you and your Creator need to have a long talk about your attitudes and behaviors. It's your serve?

Mary Barton Wilcox

#67. If behaviors become equivalent it is possible for knowledge to become equivalent (for any two individuals).

Wasif Ali Wasif

#68. Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

Alfie Kohn

#69. More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

Simon Mainwaring

#70. Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases.

James W. Pennebaker

#71. Here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility.

Wayne Dyer

#72. The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.

Rushworth Kidder

#73. Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.

Thomas Szasz

#74. Start with changing behaviors, not mindsets. It is much easier to 'act your way into new thinking' than to 'think your way into new actions.' Recurring and consistent performance results from behavior change will lead to lasting changes in the way people feel, think, and believe in the long run.

Jon Katzenbach

#75. If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses,

Craig Johnson

#76. Do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn by falling in love:

William Shakespeare

#77. Above all, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behaviors and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary.

Tim O'Brien

#78. Sometimes, even when you know someone is a hundred different kinds of wrong for you, you get sucked into old patterns and behaviors.

Sarah Mayberry

#79. One of the reasons it's so difficult to study the relationship between diet and disease is because many dietary behaviors are associated with non-dietary behaviors.

Michael Greger

#80. Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes.

Craig Venter

#81. Behaviors and feelings rarely line up

Richelle Mead

#82. ...nature is so immoral, vulgar, and downright wicked we can't possibly use nature's behaviors to set rules for ourselves.

Dan Riskin

#83. To the extent people prioritize values and goals such as achievement, money, power, status and image, they tend to hold more negative attitudes towards the environment, are less likely to engage in positive environmental behaviors, and are more likely to use natural resources unsustainably,

Naomi Klein

#84. Not only do the majority of senior women executives have sports in their background, they recognize that the behaviors and techniques learned through sports are critical to motivating teams and improving performance in a corporate environment.

Beth Brooke

#85. Healthy communication and an unconditional environment can prove the greatest asset to defeating at-risk behaviors.

Asa Don Brown

#86. It's not unreasonable that a developer could use Blend and Behaviors with Actions to build a complete solution with no code at all.

Anonymous

#87. In areas where the Bible has left us free, when we carry out Christian ministry, we should be constantly engaged in cultural adaptation - refraining from certain attitudes or behaviors to remove unnecessary stumbling blocks from the paths of people with culturally framed perceptions.

Timothy Keller

#88. As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.

Temple Grandin

#89. The nutshell version is that you need to think about the employee mindsets, behaviors, knowledge, and expertise that are potentially linked to the performance outcomes of interest.

Pearl Zhu

#90. In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you.

Chris Adami

#91. Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate yourself from the past.

Deepak Chopra

#92. We have to be cautious when we interpret animal behaviors, especially when we want a behavior to mean something in particular. Wanting is a drug, a hallucinogen.

Rebecca Skloot

#93. Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

Simon Mainwaring

#94. I have a whole set of problem-solving behaviors and I am anxious to use them, in much the same way that I would stand up on the train to give my seat to someone who seems to need it more than I do: here is something I can address, and I do, and all is well.

S. Bear Bergman

#95. I explain how America hatred and Jew hatred are [INDEMIC] to Modern Liberalism and delve deeper into why it is the otherwise good and decent people will INVARIABLY side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.

Evan Sayet

#96. We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.

Joshua Harris

#97. The cities are full of women falling for the cool loser: the man trafficking in "edgy" so women cut him slack in his more loathsome behaviors. Christ, I know so many, it's sad. Please accept my flaws (and pay my rent) because I can play guitar! Badly.

Greg Gutfeld

#98. 80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems ... they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.

Andy Stanley

#99. The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances

Stephen R. Covey

#100. Why do some products, ideas, and behaviors succeed when others fail?

Jonah Berger