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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.

Naomi Weisstein

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Naomi Weisstein
American - Author
Born: 1939

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

Elaine Dundy

You need to walk the talk, because you can't expect your organization to behave a certain way that you're not willing to behave.

Denise Morrison

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

Alan Furst

People would be so much more interesting if they'd behave like who they are, and not like what they think others expect them to be.

Dov Davidoff

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

Oliver Stone

Some people ask who they are and expect their feelings to tell them. But feelings are flickering flames that fade after every fitful stimulus. Some people ask who they are and expect their achievements to tell them. But the things we accomplish always leave a core of character unrevealed. Some people ask who they are and expect visions of their ideal self to tell them. But our visions can only tell us what we want to be, not what we are

Lewis B. Smedes

Are people being the least you expect of them, or the best they expect themselves to be?

Ron Kaufman

Immigrants can spread diseases for which we may have no immunity. There is also the question of crime and culture. Many immigrants come from countries with different legal structures and are not willing to behave in the way we expect American citizens to behave.

Ron Paul

Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave.

Howard Raiffa

As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you.

Decimus Laberius

Success is absolutely intoxicating. I've seen people behave in ways that seem very far from how they would behave normally.

Chris O'Dowd

Don't expect people to abide by your rules if you don't clearly communicate what they are. And don't expect them to live by your rules if you're not willing to compromise and live by at least some of theirs.

Tony Robbins

I don't expect the government to solve my problems, but at least I expect them to understand it.

Joe Biden

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Abraham Lincoln

When you have children your own hypocrisy becomes more apparent because you're telling them how to behave, and you're not behaving like that yourself. So it obliges one to really go in and try to look at why there is a huge gulf between how one knows one wants to behave and how one actually does behave.

Danny Boyle

When you turn up at a ground, you expect the wicket to behave in a certain fashion and it doesn't. There are so many variables in this game. It becomes even more important when it comes to T20 cricket.

Ravichandran Ashwin

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