Top 48 Quotes About Learned Behavior
#1. Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.
Ken Blanchard
#2. Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.
Jane Roberts
#3. Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn't a learned behavior. It's just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.
J.A. Konrath
#4. Recovery is not only fun, it is simple. It is not always easy, but it is simple. It is based on a premise many of us have forgotten or never learned: Each person is responsible for him- or herself. It involves learning one new behavior that we will devote ourselves to: taking care of ourselves.
Melody Beattie
#5. A horse that has made a positive change in his behavior needs an opportunity to 'soak', to concentrate on & digest what he has learned. He needs his quiet time. Given this opportunity, his response will be better the next time you work with him.
Buck Brannaman
#7. To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.
Ginni Rometty
#8. We really don't know how to love each other because we haven't really learned to love ourselves. In many instances, not all, it's not malicious. We've just been conditioned to such bad behavior.
Iyanla Vanzant
#9. It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.
Melody Beattie
#10. Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.
Woody Harrelson
#11. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.
Jacque Fresco
#12. Because Miss Jenkins believes in learned behavior instead of rational thought. What we should be taught is compassionate response.
Wen Spencer
#13. The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do vary across cultures and have to be learned, but the deeper mechanisms of mental computation that generate them may be universal and innate.
Steven Pinker
#14. Love is a learned behavior. If you don't learn how to love yourself someone will teach you how to hate yourself.
Tony Gaskins
#15. Past misdeeds must only serve as a reference point in calm conversation about lessons learned or actions that taught us to behave better. They should never be bantered about with sarcasm, anger, or nastiness.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#16. In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.
Mary Cunningham Agee
#17. 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.
Debbie Ford
#18. The danger is that people may mistake what is basically a change in vocabulary for a change in behavior, practices, and attitudes. While practically all Americans have learned to talk inoffensively, not enough have learned to think differently, nor act positively.
Whitney M. Young
#19. I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone. That was when I realised that a nigger is not a person so much as a form of behavior; a sort of obverse reflection of the white people he lives among.
William Faulkner
#20. If a bad habit is a learned behavior, then what we've learned needs to be burned in/thru the Refiner's Fire! el
Evinda Lepins
#21. Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable, ignore or excuse all such forms of violence. I promise to do so, and to invite other me and allies to do the same.
Patrick Stewart
#22. Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn't realized Edward's extreme generosity was a learned behavior.
Bella
Stephenie Meyer
#23. The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we've made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized food. The fact that we allow that to go on is horrifying.
Ruth Reichl
#24. I was so afraid to go out west to my aunt's ranch. But the only choice my mother gave me was to go for two weeks or all summer. I wound up staying all summer. And that's where I learned about cattle. I could relate to their behavior, their fears.
Temple Grandin
#25. Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.
Jane Goodall
#26. Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.
Terry McMillan
#27. She was already moving down the hall in the opposite direction from Deke, and so once again any protest I might have made was largely irrelevant. I sighed and followed, wondering if Deborah had learned this kind of behavior, perhaps from a book called The Management Style of Bulldozers. I
Jeff Lindsay
#28. Rather, the best clue is, of all things, the pity play. The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy. I first learned this when
Martha Stout
#29. Without penalizing bad behavior, the best lessons never gets learned.
Ben Tolosa
#30. I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
Charles Colson
#31. There are ... for us no instincts - we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training - belonging to man's learned behavior.
John B. Watson
#32. Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.
Margaret Mead
#33. Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#34. I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysfunctional behavior problems. I probably learned more there than from my prestigious theater degree.
Diane Farr
#35. We don't have that for the most part it is learned behavior and so the first part is we have to understand why people are behaving the way they are. Behavior is a result so we have to understand that before there is a result something is going on in here in the brain.
John Assaraf
#36. I have learned to become not an M.D. but a 'C.D.' for the wounded people I meet. Yes, a 'Chosen Dad' who may not like their behavior but loves and reparents them and helps them to heal their lives and find self-worth and self-esteem and save their lives.
Bernie Siegel
#37. Behavior speaks ... I need not listen to someone's apology; I'll watch for it. I've learned not to let someone's words blind me from their behavior.
Steve Maraboli
#38. After years of self deprecating behavior, I've never learned how to properly take a compliment. A part of me wants to argue with him, to tell him there's nothing special about me.
Brynna Gabrielson
#39. Life is a learned behavior. We should learn it well.
Las Lugosi
#40. Attitude is a decision, and it is also a learned behavior, requiring discipline and energy to sustain.
Jim Afremow
#41. When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.
Mignon McLaughlin
#42. Racism is taught in our society ... it is not automatic.
It is learned behavior toward persons with
dissimilar physical characteristics.
Alex Haley
#43. Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit loop into a permanent behavior.
Charles Duhigg
#44. Forgive but punish bad behavior, reward the good ones and celebrate the victories and lessons learned.
Ben Tolosa
#45. You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.
Katie Couric
#46. I have learned that as soon as you introduce controls on human behavior, you lose the game, particularly when those controls are at odds with the work.
John Seddon
#47. I long ago learned that one's illnesses are both pleasanter and more useful if one keeps their exact nature to himself: one's friends, uncertain as to the cause of one's queer behavior and strange sufferings, impute to one a mysteriousness often subtly convenient.
John Barth
#48. The more often you act in these unhealthy ways, the more you teach your brain that what is simply a habit (a learned behavior) is essential to your survival.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
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