Quotes with behavior

  • Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
  • 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
  • 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.
  • The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
  • The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.
  • The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called conditioning. In operant conditioning we strengthen an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.
  • Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
  • We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
  • There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
  • In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends.
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  • Emily Dickinson Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carolyn See 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...controls on behavior shift from the intermediate levels of human experience (social, emotional and religious) to the lower (military and political) or to the upper (ideological). They become the externalized controls of a mature society: weapons, bureaucracies, material rewards, or ideology.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Bruce Friedman A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
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  • Charles A. Garfield 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.
    Charles A. Garfield
    American psychologist and author (1944 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • George Sheehan Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.
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  • Myriam Miedzian 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
    American philosopher and author
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  • Candice Bergen Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • B. F. Skinner Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Benjamin Whorf But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Willard Beecher Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.
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  • B. F. Skinner Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Dr. James C. Dobson Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.
    Dr. James C. Dobson
    American evangelical Christian author
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  • Burton Richter During my years at the synchrotron laboratory, I had become interested in the theory of quantum electrodynamics and had decided that what I would most like to do after completing my dissertation work was to probe the short-distance behavior of the electromagnetic interaction.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 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 Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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