Top 1200 Behavior Quotes & Sayings

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.'

Tastes and behavior are important in economics. Nobody denies that. But the question is: How much of behavior is irrational, and how much of the irrational behavior really affects prices? It turns out that's very difficult to answer.

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

I certainly relish the chance to play a woman who didn't have to conform in any way ever to expected behavior or desirable behavior or attractive behavior.

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

When our embassy is attacked in Benghazi by terrorists and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Russia invades Ukraine and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Syria crosses the red line and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Iran launches tests of ballistic missiles and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When North Korea attacks Sony Pictures and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. In other words, Mrs. Clinton, you cannot lead from behind. We must respond when we are attacked or provoked.

The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.

There's nothing really connecting the behavior of the Nile, metallurgy, and the behavior of prices except that I had the mathematical tools to explain them.

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Anger management (which is a part of both public displays of rage and spouse abuse) is about changing a person's internal reactions to events (how they see their behavior) by changing the support environment for the behavior (making them see the behavior is wrong).

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

The way one behaves and feels as a Dutchman and Dutchwoman is the result of a long development. It is by no means 'the natural way' or 'the human way' of behaving, it is a particular code of behavior which has developed over the years. And these people, the immigrant people, come from a group where different standards of conduct and behavior have developed. What clashes are these two standards of conduct and behavior.

Let's have some boilerplate language that accurately describes the candidate that we're talking about. If readers are unfamiliar, here are the descriptions of his behavior and here are the links to that behavior that is described.

If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

Be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases.

The transitions from metallic to critical behavior and from critical to insulating behavior have been induced with a magnetic field, and from insulating to critical and then to metallic behavior with increasing external pressure.

That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.

Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.

Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior. Preoccupation with unworthy behavior can lead to unworthy behavior. That is why we stress so forcefully the study of the doctrines of the gospel.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

It is easier to recognize the quality of leadership in the behavior of their followers than it is in the behavior of the leader.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life

There are absolutely ways to manipulate behavior, because our behavior is endlessly being manipulated by the world around us.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.

It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.

Behavior is a virus. We spread our behavior to those around us, whether passively or on purpose.

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't.

The final act of an unraveling society isn't immoral behavior; it's canonizing immoral behavior as a 'new normal' and celebrating it as a 'moral victory.'

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

I think comedy directors tend to feel a need to justify the bad behavior, and I just never think that. I like bad behavior, I've always liked bad behavior, I'm a fan of bad behavior, and I don't think you have to justify bad behavior.

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is not possible not to communicate.

You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.

When you go through abuse - the behavior - what happens is all behavior stems from faulty belief.

Moral licensing comes into play when people rely on past behavior to dismiss current prejudiced behavior. This is better known as the 'Some of my best friends are...' defense.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Grace-driven effort wants to get to the bottom of behavior, not just manage behavior. If you're simply managing behavior but not removing the roots of that behavior, then the weeds simply sprout up in another place.

One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists.

The fascinating thing about our best and worst behaviors isn't the behavior itself - the brain tells the muscles to do something or other - big deal. It's the meaning of the behavior.

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. Just to answer the question why does not say I'm validating behavior. I'm just saying, if we're going to be a student of human behavior, be a true student.