Top 1200 Behavior Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

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.

I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

And as long as you’re making choices unconsciously, you can’t consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits.

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.

I think our responsibility as political leaders today, is to push our economic leaders to change their investment behavior, to decide new things, and to help workers to change their jobs. And I think the mistake that Donald Trump decided to make is exactly the mistake we made in France and in Europe. Which was to resist to the change in order to protect the old jobs. What we have to protect is people, not jobs. If you want to protect people, you retrain them.

People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

If we were to normalize relations right now, we would remove one of the biggest pieces of leverage we have to try to influence and change Iranian behavior.

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

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

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

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

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

I'm on the board of the Sierra Club Foundation and am myself a big environmentalist. But the way to make the biggest difference is to change mainstream behavior.

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.

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.'

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

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

We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.

The world, the way we look at women and sexuality, is what needs to change - not our behavior, not who we are, not what we say. It's the intentions that should change. It's the mind-set. Otherwise, we're just going to be a completely confused society with not knowing what to say to one another. The mind-set of when you meet a woman is that you should try and get to know her.

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.

When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.

I've moved away from writing about and describing actual experiences of sex work, whether mine or anybody else's, because the culture is obsessed with the behavior of sex workers. They want to figure out why they do what they do and who they are. What I'm trying to do is to shift the focus onto the producers of the anti-sex work discourse: the cops, the feminists, the anti-prostitution people. Those are the people whose behavior needs to change.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

The biggest change in the government's behavior has been because of TV and its ability to show to the world what has happened in this community... that's the biggest change. But without TV... the separation between the government and the people would be much worse than it is.

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.

I have done political things, I couldn't care less about politics. I have zero interest in politics, really. They don't allure me. I have no interest in them, because if I could believe the law could change people's behavior then I would become a politician. But only Christ can change the heart.

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.

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

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

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

Once you get a reputation for emotional volatility, it can take years of model behavior to change how others see you.

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future 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.

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

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

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

Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a great weakness to want to bedeck oneself in qualities which are not his own. If he esteemed virtue above all other things, neither the favors of fortune nor the advantages of position would change a man's face or heart.

If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

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

Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

We have to stop seeing the skin color. I believe that's the most powerful way to change mentalities and behavior. I had to stop seeing myself in such a limited way. I started doing that as a teenager, and here I am today, because of that. I believe that's the best way to change things for Black people.

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

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.

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

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

I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

When we see sexist and racist behavior, the only way to change that is also to point it out and make it clear that it's not okay.

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

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.

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).

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

Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.