One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists.
Frans de Waal
TimeBestAnimalMeLimitsBehavior
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.
Bruce Jay Friedman
FriendWomenWifeWorldBehavior
The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
Paramahansa Yogananda
NatureSoulBlessedEgoBehavior
I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.
Robert Metcalfe
InnovationPeopleBehaviorWillSaw
Like Hollywood, Washington, and New York City, Silicon Valley is in a moral crisis after a litany of revelations about predatory behavior by powerful men.
Emily Chang
MenNew YorkCityBehaviorPowerful
I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior; or how to save and fix and rescue; or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.
Anne Lamott
GoodGodPeopleIdeasGiftBehavior
My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.
Naguib Sawiris
CharacterPoliticsThinkBehavior
Game studios, developers, and major publishers need to vocally speak up against the harassment of women and say this behavior is unacceptable.
Anita Sarkeesian
WomenGameSpeakBehaviorSayNeed
I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.
Elizabeth Mitchell
GoodPeopleGood ThingsBehaviorBad
Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.
Woody Harrelson
WorkGreatBehaviorI Have Learned
When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.
Madonna Ciccone
BehaviorYouLittleStarDaringPop
The kind of work you do, when you do it, how much of it there is, and who you delegate it to are often the cause of the quasi-schizophrenic behavior seen in many business owners and entrepreneurs.
Michael Gerber
WorkBusinessBehaviorYouKindWho
I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time.
David Lowery
LoveTimeBehaviorAnimalsCat
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.
Philip Zimbardo
HistoryTrainingBehaviorEnvironment
I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
FatherBrotherSpeakBehaviorTrying
Acknowledging the unproductive thoughts and ineffective behavior that you've tried to ignore can be uncomfortable. But, stepping out of your comfort zone and choosing to proactively address bad habits will skyrocket your ability to create long-lasting change.
Amy Morin
ChangeThoughtsComfort ZoneBehavior
A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside people's minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting their patterns down so I know how to create the illusion that I get inside their brain.
Criss Angel
PeopleBrainThinkBehaviorDown
I think Berry Gordy is a genius, I really do, and it's not a word I throw around lightly. But with all that comes the idiosyncratic behavior of a self-made, talented, creative person, and that's not easy to come up against.
Suzanne de Passe
CreativeThinkBehaviorGeniusEasy
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
Kate Millett
MenBehaviorMoreBeenCodeThan
Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it were admirable, and so there's nostalgia for that: the behavior, the values, the cultural sensitivities.
Amor Towles
BehaviorYouValuesNostalgiaWant
Good TV is not just TV about good behavior.
Cathleen Schine
GoodBehaviorGood BehaviorJustTV
Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier. You're not solely dependent of what's coming out of your mouth. You're also less self-conscious, less aware of the camera.
Peter Falk
GoodLookingBehaviorCameraMouth
I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.
Haley Bennett
LifePeopleThinkBehaviorWhyTry
Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
Stephen Covey
PeopleBlameBehaviorEnvironment
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