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Behavior Quotes
"Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing."
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"Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless."
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"The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior."
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"Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system."
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"No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy."
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"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes."
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"Good people won't do bad to you if you hurt them. They'll just be neutral and walk away, with experience and a lesson; and you'll be left with well-wishers less one."
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"I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you."
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"Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong."
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"Kindness is the supreme intelligence."
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"Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed."
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"To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely."
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"All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied."
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"With no power to annul the elemental evil in him, though readily enough he could hide it; apprehending the good, but powerless to be it; a nature like Claggart's, surcharged with energy as such natures almost invariably are, what recourse is left to it but to recoil upon itself and, like the scorpion for which the Creator alone is responsible, act out to the end the part allotted it."
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"Behavior speaks. If you're chasing them, it means they're running from you. Save your energy."
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"I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior."
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"I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it."
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"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."
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"Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity."
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"You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did."
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"When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it."
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"At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior."
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"Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful."
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"Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose."
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"Others behavior towards us is a reflection of our own behavior, it's a MIRROR."
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"He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more."
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"If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning."
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"When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us."
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"I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle."
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"Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them."
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"All behavior is governed by fields generating forms. Information folds into and out of the holomovement as a form of computational geometry."
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"Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb."
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"I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior."
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"Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature."
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"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."
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"Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying."
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"The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior."
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