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Behavior Quotes
"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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"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."
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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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"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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"Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells."
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"Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing."
8
"The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior."
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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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"Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong."
8
"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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"Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying."
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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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"Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity."
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"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes."
7
"Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time."
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"Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose."
7
"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."
7
"The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories- and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures."
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"As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior."
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"Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation."
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"Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them."
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"A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior."
6
"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."
6
"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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