Top 1200 Personal Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

I look at light as a material. It is physical. It is photons. Yes, it exhibits wave behavior, but it is a thing.

I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks.

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.

My personal life was my personal life and no one's business.

The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.

The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.

Most efforts to approximate normal human behavior in software tend to be creepy or annoying.

I think the political is personal, and the personal is political.

We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

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

If you feel comfortable, and you feel happy, and successful at your job, then that's success. You define that as success, then that's success. Success is not a general thing. It's a personal thing. It's a personal attribute.

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.

Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

Basically, we've grown up very focused on the institution. The institution tells me what to do. It tells me where to go. It tells me what my career path is, and then I, sort of, attach my own personal desires, my own personal interests. I think we're living in a time where we're going to have to change - to put people in the center.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

Get into something that's really personal that means something to you, where you have something to say and is something really individualized. I wish I was more aware of that when I started my career instead of doing a few things I was told would be good for me. And they weren't, because it left me empty, so I didn't do a good job anyways. I think that's what's key to what we do: It's got to be personal.

I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.

Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say to an actor "Oh I want you to do it a little bit more ...," without saying what you want more of, then the actor doesn't know what to do. But if you can put into words exactly what you want, then the experience of writing is helpful with that.

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some part according to social conventions, but also formed by personal inclinations and dispositions. Regimes are of central importance to self-identity precisely because they connect habits with aspects of the visible appearance of the body.

The Founding Fathers were more deists. If you had to categorize them as anything. There was some sort of moving prime force. But it's an impersonal force. Some people call it Nature. Certainly not this personal god who you have a personal relationship with, who listens to your prayers and answers them, or doesn't. You know, not the silly stuff that most Americans believe because we're such a dumb nation.

To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

In affirming God to be supreme in all things, the classical theist describes him in a number of ways. He is perfect, loving, good, infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, timeless, transcendent, personal, immutable and immanent. But how can this be? Is it really possible to be both eternal and timeless? Immutable and immanent? Personal and at the same time transcendent?

We live in the new world where camera phones are everywhere, and you have to be on your best behavior at all times.

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

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

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America!

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

Hedda Hopper was a better direct opponent to [Dalton] Trumbo. We wanted to use Trumbo's battles to represent the larger battles, so the audience could understand the personal sacrifice he went through and the personal damage to his family. The choices were about who were the best representations of his antagonists, which is why we chose as we did.

I want to be talked about for the films I am doing rather than a party I attended, the dress I wore, and the men I may have met and dated. In any case, by and large I think I have spoken about more for the profession I am in than my personal life. That's the way I like it because frankly, I don't really have a personal life to begin with.

Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.

In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

Barbara Parkins was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority.

Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

I don't think there's anybody I write about who I don't care for deeply in some way, no matter what their behavior is.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

In one sense, you put a lot of yourself into a small press - it's your personal tastes that are on the line - so when criticism is levelled it can feel personal. But, on the other hand, it can be very welcome and necessary. You're never entirely impervious, and one of the main benefits of being a small operation is that you can change the way you do things quickly in response to criticism. In all instances it pays to have a sense of humour and perspective.

The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you." I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

Difficult as it often is to grasp someone else's pain, it is easy to judge another's behavior.