Top 1200 Positive Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

As I noted to my colleagues in the Roberts' hearings, in a year between 80 percent to 90 percent of the children in America diagnosed with Down's Syndrome will be killed in the womb simply because they have a positive genetic test which can be wrong, and is often wrong, but they would have a positive genetic test for Down's Syndrome and they will be killed.America is poorer because of such a policy.

People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.

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

We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

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.

Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.

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

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

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

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

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

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

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

Our schools should be sanctuaries of learning, not nightmares of cruel and racist behavior.

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

The Warrior does not worry that, to others, his behavior might seem quite mad.

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

And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this...this--' 'School?

It is imperative that mothers understand their child's behavior and not blindly support the wrongdoings or faults in their sons.

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior.

The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.

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

Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

I have made so many mistakes in life, my temper and behavior all this doesn't do any good to anyone.

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

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

To expect happiness without giving up negative action is like holding your hand in a fire and hoping not to be burned. Of course, no one actually wants to suffer, to be sick, to be cold or hungry - but as long as we continue to indulge in wrong doing we will never put an end to suffering. Likewise, we will never achieve happiness, except through positive deeds, words, and thoughts. Positive action is something we have to cultivate ourselves; it can be neither bought nor stolen, and no one ever stumbles on it just by chance.

The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.

Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet.

When you become so determined that you want to feel good - you have become as your Inner Being is, in such a pure place of Positive Energy - then that which is 'negative energy' simply can't mix with you. It defies Law. If you are very strong and clear about your positive wanting, and feeling it, then 'bad' things simply cannot get in. Colds can't get in, car accidents can't get in, anything that you are not wanting cannot be your personal experience.

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.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

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

Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there.

At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.

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

Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.

With genuine love and compassion, another person's appearance or behavior has no affect on your attitude.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

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

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

We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps.

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

Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought practically universal acceptance to the theory that the material world contains but two fundamental entities, namely, positive and negative electrons, exactly alike in charge, but differing widely in mass, the positive electron-now usually called a proton-being 1850 times heavier than the negative, now usually called simply the electron.

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

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

I just want to make it clear that I admit that that's rapey behavior, but I am not a rapist.

I think most actors are very impressionable, and that's part of what we do is soak up other's behavior.

I'm very eclectic in terms of what I like, what I read, what I watch, my own consumer behavior.

The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.