Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want the kids to be physically fit and learn good behavior, sportsmanship, respect for themselves and for others.

We strongly dispute the claim that the behavior of some store managers reflected a corporate plan devised to further the company's position during the prolonged labor negotiations.

We actually enjoy them - their behavior and how they bounce around and stuff. They've always been a pleasure. Now rats, that's a different story.

We have no idea who is doing this, but we cannot tolerate this kind of behavior. Certainly, we support the free expression of ideas, but the freedom to do so must not come at the expense of the rights of others.

What the region is looking for - and needs - is a power that guarantees stability through predictable behavior.

Bill Watterson

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. -Calvin

Leonid Hurwicz

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

We found that mothers showed no differential behavior toward their sons versus their daughters. They weren't being nasty to their sons or encouraging to their daughters.

Barbara Tuchman

Human behavior is timeless.

Arthur C. Clarke

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

Baltasar Gracian

Always act as if you were seen.

Demetri Martin

Drunken behavior will not be tolerated, except by those who are being hilarious.

Javier Solana

We're going to continue working politically ... the behavior (of the Russians) is completely unacceptable,

Rob Enderle

Walker Digital doesn't look like much more than an idea house that comes up with ideas, then sues people who come up with similar ones. I think that kind of behavior is very similar to what happened on the high seas with pirates. It's being done under the auspices of a legitimate business practice, but in fact it's concealing behavior that is anything but fair business practice.

Naomi Campbell

very disappointed in her behavior and that she should go now.

There are too many stories out there about erratic behavior. You don't want to see a meltdown or some sort of erratic behavior in front of a stern judge.

We're showing for the first time that incidental emotions from one situation can exert a causal effect on economic behavior in other, ostensibly unrelated situations.

We're shocked by the allegations of this type of behavior and we're certainly work with the appropriate authorities to provide any information that we might have that might be useful. But our focus will remain on meeting the health needs of inmates.

Like any large city, they're interested in reducing their traffic and improving their environment. People are changing their behavior.

Sharon Stone

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

George A. Sheehan

Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.

Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.

E. L. Konigsburg

I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.

Ernst Mayr

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.

Dick Van Dyke

Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.

Dennis Prager

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

Dennis Prager

The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

Dennis Prager

Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior.

Daniel Gillies

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

B. F. Skinner

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

B. F. Skinner

Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.

So many times, that moment where you could really make a difference and change behavior is right there in the hospital. If you wait, the person will often recover and go back to that same lifestyle.

Jean Chatzky

Show your kids that needs and wants are two different things. The best way to teach our kids to be smart consumers - and savvy savers - is to model good behavior for them.