Quote: The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.
Author: Alfred Adler 1870-1937, Austrian Psychiatrist
Quote: The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.
Author: Joe Ancis
Quote: Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
Author: W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet
Quote: Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
Author: Francis Beaumont 1584-1616, British Dramatist
Quote: With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Author: Otto Von Bismarck 1815-1898, Prussian Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.
Author: Noam Chomsky 1928-, American Linguist, Political Activist
Quote: When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Author: C. E. Coghill
Quote: What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Author: Leonard Cohen 1934-, Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer
Quote: Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Author: George W. Crane
Quote: To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
Author: Rene Descartes 1596-1650, French Philosopher, Scientist
Quote: At the time, my grandparents told my mom, ''Lordy, what is Shannen doing?'' Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation for bad behavior]
Author: Shannen Doherty 1971-, American Actress
Quote: Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
Author: Charles A. Garfield American Peak Performance Expert, Researcher, Trainer
Quote: Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
Author: Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantra
Quote: We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
Author: Doug Horton
Quote: Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.
Author: Kin Hubbard 1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist
Quote: No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.
Author: Korner
Quote: Still people are dangerous.
Author: Jean De La Fontaine 1621-1695, French Poet
Quote: We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Author: Margaret Mead 1901-1978, American Anthropologist
Quote: Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Author: Wilson Mizner 1876-1933, American Author
Quote: It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
Author: Hector Hugh Munro 1870-1916, British Novelist, Writer
Quote: Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Author: Cesare Pavese 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator
Quote: Contraries are cured by contraries.
Author: Proverb
Quote: People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
Author: Proverb
Quote: The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
Author: Proverb
Quote: If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.
Author: Richard D. Rosen
Quote: Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
Author: B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner 1904-1990, American Psychologist
Quote: When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Author: E. G. Stakman
Quote: Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
Author: Benzel Sternan
Quote: We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.
Author: Sharon Stone 1958-, American Actress
Quote: People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
Author: Fran Tarkenton American Football Player, Businessman, Corporate Consultant, Author
Quote: I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word -- politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Author: Emma Thompson 1959-, British-born American-born American Actress
Quote: Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
Author: Orson Welles 1915-1985, American Film Maker