Quotes About Past Behavior

#1. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Joe Navarro

#2. I believe that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior when it comes to religious fanaticism.

Sam Brower

#3. You're holding your future self responsible for something your past self didn't know anything about. You can't judge your past behavior because of the way things turned out. You had no way of knowing what would happen next. It's only because you do know that you judge your past self.

E.K. Blair

#4. Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically.

Lee Ellis

#5. Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

Gordon Livingston

#6. Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#7. my past behavior need not define who I was, am, and could be.

Ken

#8. If you are innately skeptical of other people's motives, then no amount of good behavior in the past will ever truly convince you that they are not just about to disappoint you. Suspicion is a permanent condition.

Marcus Buckingham

#9. It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

David Hume

#10. The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

C.S. Lewis

#11. If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt bankers' own long-term interests and the economy in general.

Ben Bernanke

#12. As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.

Timothy Geithner

#13. Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.

Debbie Ford

#14. Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

Carol Tavris

#15. Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly.

James Surowiecki

#16. Well-meaning, decent people will condemn the behavior of a Ted Bundy, while they're walking past a magazine rack full of the very kinds of things that send young kids down the road to be Ted Bundys.

Ted Bundy

#17. My brain has always been my enemy, and I've spent much of the past decade warring against it, with therapy and razor blades and bad behavior, with precision-guided prescriptions that targeted specific regions.

Pete Wentz

#18. It is a remarkable feat to be able to see past the inhumanity of the behavior and recognize the humanity of the person committing the atrocious acts. This is not weakness. This is heroic strength, the noblest strength of the human spirit.

Desmond Tutu

#19. 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

#20. The fear of climatic catastrophes is an ancient one and not unlike our fear of strangers. In the past, people believed that the climate almost always changes for the worse, and only rarely for the better - God's punishment for sinful behavior.

Hans Von Storch

#21. Whatever behavior you've experienced from people in the past, expect them to do it again and again and again.

Merrill Markoe

#22. The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered acceptable sexual behavior. In the past century, the law has had trouble keeping up with changing social and moral standards.

Terry Gross

#23. Behavior isn't something someone "has." Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, past experiences, and immediate context.

L. Todd Rose

#24. Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness.
Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.

Rick Warren

#25. A lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

Orson Scott Card

#26. When you are angry, your blood pressure rises, you forget the basic norms of good behavior, you start shouting, you even use foul language and dig out all the past corpses of incidents afresh to ruin your future. So, choose to remain peaceful and stable --- whatever the situation.

Sanchita Pandey

#27. However, if Sir Launcelot of the Lake failed now and then in his behavior, who is there in the world shall say, 'I never fell into error'? And if he more than once offended, who is there shall have hardihood to say, 'I never committed offence'?

Howard Pyle

#28. Human mind & news Media work on the same principle: Unsatisfied with the past; worried about future; ignorant about the present moment.

Saurabh Sharma

#29. Myrnin froze, staring at her. He really was amazing, she thought; when he had that light in his eyes, it was possible to see past the crazy behavior and clothing chaos and recognize him as just ... beautiful. The longing in his face was breathtaking.

Rachel Caine

#30. Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Philip G. Zimbardo

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now," but don't dwell on past mistakes. Learn from them and focus those lessons in the moment. That's where change can really happen.

Jillian Michaels

#34. I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

Sarah Ferguson

#35. The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.

Jeanette Winterson

#36. When we allow a preconception to rule our behavior, we are actually allowing our past to control our present and future.

Ilchi Lee

#37. People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

Gretchen Rubin

#38. 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