Top 1200 Learned Behavior Quotes & Sayings

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.

Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.

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.

Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella

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.

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).

No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.'

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

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

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.

Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.

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.

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

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

I have excellent balance. That's a learned behavior.

The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.

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.

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.

Every morning when we wake up we've been given a wonderful gift-another day of life-so let's make the most of it. No one can do it for us. . . . Genuine happiness can only be realized once we commit to making it a personal priority in our lives. This may be a new behavior for some of us and a bit intimidating. Be gentle with yourself. It will all unfold. Like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

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.

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

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.

Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes learned behavior.

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

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

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.

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

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

One thing that I learned that helped me deal with human behavior is confrontation, and I'm not that great with confrontation at all. But once I started to be O.K. with that, the better everybody's life got.

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

You've learned the lessons well. You first learned to live on less than you earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who are competent. Lastly, you've learned to make gold work for you.

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

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

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

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.

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.

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.

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

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

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

I have touched here on a problem that is masked if one speaks of racism. And that is the fact that the major differences between the established and outsiders group, which create tension and irritation, is not the form of the face or the skin color but the form of behavior: something learned. The form of behavior and feeling, of sentiment, is different in the immigrant groups from that of the established groups, and that may give rise to an enormous irritation.

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

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 learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

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

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.

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

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

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

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