behavior quotes

• The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and well-being. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually. (Greg Anderson) [behavior/health]
• The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. (Warren Buffett) [business/behavior/more/behavior]
• The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all. (Emily Dickinson) [behavior]
• There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [form/behavior/wish/joy]
• The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. (Michel Foucault) [behavior/love/power/desire]
• There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [love/behavior]
• Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [behavior]
• Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him. (William James) [behavior/willpower/take/life]
• One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [demand/society/behavior/thinker]
• It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. (Margaret Mead) [question/behavior/fear/punishment]
• As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment. (Myriam Miedzian) [behavior/norm/behavior/norm]
• Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [love/instruction/behavior/words]
• Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. (Cesare Pavese) [perfect/behavior]
• This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune -- often the surfeits of our own behavior -- we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! (William Shakespeare) [fortune/behavior/sun/villains]
• The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, -- you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, -- I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that. (Henry David Thoreau) [behavior/thing]
• If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. (Henry David Thoreau) [behavior]
• People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so. (Sharon Stone) [people/change/behavior]
• There are moments — behavior — in 'East of Eden' that are pure magic, ... 'Giant' is pure magic; 'Rebel' is a bit dated and is sort of a strange vision of the 1950s, but his work in that was amazing. (Johnny Depp) [behavior/magic/magic/strange]
• “I loved the character, but the challenge, to me, became making this character exactly new and modern in exactly the same behavior and language that was already done, ... Because she wanted to be married, she wanted to risk everything to be with this man, and oftentimes, women are so willing to give and give and give and give, and actually receive so little. And this guy comes in once every couple of weeks and has sex with her in a motel room. This is not a guy to steal $400,000 for.” (Anne Heche) [character/character/behavior/language]
• Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set. (Gene Tierney) [behavior/movie]
• I always say centered food equals centered behavior. (Marilu Henner) [food/behavior]
• “There seems to be no repercussions for the behavior. It's starting to feel chaotic and lawless.” (Reese Witherspoon) [behavior]
• “Because they're sponges, it's better to incorporate it into their lives now rather than change behavior (later).” (Susan Ward) [change/behavior]
• I'm trying to find real behavior. (Jason Patric) [find/behavior]
• I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going. (Julia Stiles) [human/behavior]
• “Nothing in his person or his teaching would indicate that (the charges) would be true, ... He has strong political views -- I'd say he is a social liberal -- but I've never seen a scintilla of violence in his behavior or in the way he interacts with his students. He is very passive and low-key.” (Michael Jackson) [behavior]
• “Nothing in his person or his teaching would indicate that (the charges) would be true. He has strong political views -- I'd say he is a social liberal -- but I've never seen a scintilla of violence in his behavior or in the way he interacts with his students. He is very passive and low-key.” (Michael Jackson) [behavior]
• “We don't teach our children that healthy relationships involve drunken, naked parties in a hot tub with strangers - but that's what they see when they turn on `The Real World,' ... When they're fed a steady diet of these depictions over and over again from the time they're very young, this behavior becomes acceptable, it even starts seeming normal.” (Barack Obama) [teach/time/behavior]
• My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior. (Lorna Luft) [mother/behavior]

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