Best behavior & certain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.”

People Ifs Knows World Giving Feels Certain Ability Doubt Limits Behavior Loyalty Devotion Obligation Justify Assured

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“People who try to be nice are false. They're liars. You should never force your behavior to be a certain way. You should just be. Maybe it's not going to be nice, but at least it'll be honest.”

People Way Should Trying Certain Force Nice Honest Behavior Being Honest Liars Being Nice

Book:Brooke

Source: Brooke

“It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.”

Humans Form Certain Behavior Capable Fascinating Primitive Warfare Hostile Chimpanzees Territorial

Book:Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

Source: Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“Keith Olbermann is trying to make a business out of destroying Bill O'Reilly. He's done certain things to Bill O'Reilly that I believe were way over the line. I think that's bad behavior. But it's okay for him to criticize Bill. And Bill shouldn't be so sensitive. He should ignore that.”

Thinking Way Should Trying Believe Done Certain I Believe Lines Behavior Okay Bills Sensitive Criticize Destroying Keith Bad Behavior Bill O Reilly

Author:Rupert Murdoch

“A certain group of adolescents evidence clear "druggie" behavior and attributes some time before they actually begin drug use.”

Use Certain Clear Groups Drug Behavior Evidence Attributes Drug Use Druggies

Author:Virgil Miller Newton

“Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.”

Use Certain Parent Attitude Limits Goodness Behavior Obedience Use Of Power

Book:Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?

Source: Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?

“I think The Room is something magnetic, a certain magnetism in The Room that is related to human behavior, and that's why people relate to it.”

People Thinking Humans Certain Rooms Behavior Relate Related Human Behavior Magnetic Magnetism

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.”

Needs Wells Children Ideas Feelings Certain Values Wish Parent Understanding Results Situation Produce Particular Ought Behavior Flow Relation Our Children Method Predictable

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“If you manage a team of 10 people, its quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors. If you manage an organization of 1,000 people it is quite impossible. At a certain size, your company will do things that are so bad that you never imagined that youd be associated with that kind of incompetence.”

People Ifs Kind Certain Mistake Company Impossible Team Behavior Organization Size Manage Incompetence Bad Behavior

Author:Ben Horowitz

“Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.”

Shows Certain Degrees Behavior Dignity Patience Smile Strikes Resentment Symptoms

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?”

Kind Persons Doe Art Desire Certain Deals Behavior Tests Remarks Admirable Avant Garde Tiresome Avant Garde Art

Author:W. H. Auden

“Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.”

Humans Wells Certain Human Nature Amount Discipline Behavior Eternal Built Horse Mathematics Investing Stuck Predictions Human Behavior Diagnosis Basics Horse Sense

Author:Charlie Munger

“Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.”

Long Enough Certain Memories Consciousness Achieve Effects Behavior Conscious Resources Typical Persevere Cerebral

Book:Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds

Source: Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds

“We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into which all behavior is then fitted.”

Want Firsts Stories Certain Behavior Expectations Significance

Book:Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice

Source: Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice

“I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.”

Thinking Children Mother Certain Social Amount Behavior Standards Pressure Regard Our Children Conform Unnatural Social Pressure

Author:Jillian Medoff

“There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.”

Body Certain Understanding Habit Behavior Your Body Urgency Sense Of Urgency Good Behavior

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.”

Want Children Whole Certain Lines Behavior Train Range Let It Go Raising Children Babysitting

Author:Kevin Kelly

“We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.”

Form Certain Natural Novel Theory Behavior Consequence Arise Characteristics Selection Natural Selection Selected Discarded Mutation Reinforcement

Book:Science And Human Behavior

Source: Science And Human Behavior

“Listen to your body's wisdom, which expresses itself through signals of comfort and discomfort. When choosing a certain behavior, ask your body, "How do you feel about this?" If your body sends a signal of physical or emotional distress, watch out. If your body sends a signal of comfort and eagerness, proceed.”

Ifs Feels Body Certain Asks Watches Emotional Comfort Behavior Your Body Distress Signals Discomfort Eagerness

Book:Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old

Source: Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old

“We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds of contemplation that provide a valuable balance to the knee-jerk reactionary behavior of most of our newspapers and political leaders. Poets are great doubters.”

Kind Political Certain Given Perfect Leader Poet Balance Behavior Valuable Newspapers Knees Contemplation Not Perfect Jerk Reactionaries Political Leaders Doubters

Author:Sam Hamill

“I think you can blame certain police officers for certain behavior, you can blame certain departments for certain behavior, and power and so forth, but, ultimately, I'd say it's about us, and it's about society, and I say - even if its sounds a little controversial - put the police aside for a second. It's really not about them. It's about the game that's been created to keep the status quo going and to let the people who own it all gain from the game.”

People Ifs Thinking Littles Certain Games Sound Behavior Gains Police Blame Department Officers Status Quo Controversial Police Officer

Author:Oren Moverman

“You know what I think you get scared of more - especially me, after touring for so long and being in bands for so long - you start to associate certain behavior with the music. It's like people associate having a cigarette with having a cup of coffee, or lunch.”

People Thinking Knows Long Certain Band Behavior Scared Coffee Cups Lunch Cigarette Associates Touring Coffee Cup

Author:Iggy Pop

“Islam's basic principles of belief, worship, morality, and behavior are not affected by changing times. Islam does not propose a certain unchangeable form of government or attempt to shape it. Islam has never offered nor established a theocracy in its name. Instead, Islam establishes fundamental principles that orient a government's general character.”

“The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.”

Needs Certain Behavior Absolutes Predictable

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I'm trying to transform behaviors and ideas that have never been challenged in certain ways in my life. I'm not the kid that I was at 19.”

Way Trying Ideas Kids Certain Behavior

Author:Nate Parker

“I think more and more young people are catching on when it comes to certain healthy behaviors, much more than I did when I was younger.”

People Thinking Young Certain Healthy Behavior Catching Catching On

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“I love the of dealing with the homoerotic versus the idea of dealing with certain tropes with regards to black masculinity in the world, propensity towards sports, antisocial behavior, hypersexuality - all of these sort of non-truths that I don't exist in but that I see as being fixed in the world's imagination.”

World Ideas Certain Sports Black Imagination Behavior Regard Fixed Masculinity Versus Propensity Antisocial Tropes Antisocial Behavior

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I think everyone understands when these cycles are disrupted, especially in terms of institutionalized poverty, it's always will be difficult - patterns are put into place, and certain behaviors keep getting repeated.”

Thinking Certain Difficult Term Poverty Behavior Patterns Cycles

Author:James Redford

“Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.”

Ideas Certain Behavior Projects Independent China No Idea

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior, and excesses have occurred in the opposite direction, in de-regulating other types of behavior. As a matter of fact, if they continue to regulate the airlines, we might have safer skies, and if they slack off on the radio, we might have better radio. If they just use it as a threat, eventually there's going to be another test case like the one that the 7 dirty words ruling came out of, and basically, its extortion.”

Ifs Wells Matter Facts Use Might Certain Term Cases Sky Type Behavior Tests Opposites Threat Radio Administration Dirty Excess Ruling Airline Matter Of Fact Dirty Words Extortion

Author:Frank Zappa

“You have this giant institution called the United States media that was fully aware of the real reason behind open borders, mass immigration, and they're not fazed by it. They are not fazed by any of the dubious, any of the criminal, any of the catastrophically wrong, any of the catastrophically potentially damaging behavior on the part of the Democrats. It won't even be reported on. It won't even be referenced. And, as such, there's a certain percentage of the country that's never going to know what you and I know.”

Knows Real Country States Reason Certain United Behinds United States Media Behavior Mass Institutions Democrat Criminals Immigration Borders Giants Percentages Dubious

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“At a glance, addiction, sex work, mad passion, and all forms of extreme behavior might look like pushing or trying to obliterate boundaries when, more honestly, they are a search for them. I want to find the endpoint, the place where my own powers end, so I can yield to something that I'm certain is bigger than me.”

Want Trying Looks I Can Ends Might Form Certain Passion Sex My Own Behavior Bigger Mad Addiction Extremes Honestly Boundaries Pushing Yield Glances Sex Work

Author:Melissa Febos

“The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where the differences in the brain are going to just be a personality variant and, like, for very mild Asperger's. But you get into more severe kinds of autism where there's obvious speech delay, obvious abnormal behavior in a two and three-year-old child, you know, the initial neurology is different from case to case. But all children with autism are going to do better if they get really good educational intervention.”

“There's a real connection between the history of print in Europe and nationalism, and how those two things could be formed. I think they may both now be ending, for good and bad, but I think mainly for good. Either globalism was supposed to make people all realize this is one big business going on and we should know what's going on everywhere, or it makes people say, "I don't want to become part of this thing. I want to be incredibly different from you and I want to uphold my local behavior." Dress a certain way.”

“Advertising is not intended to brainwash you and make you go out and buy something; that's a real simple-minded way of criticizing it. I think advertising is just designed to make you familiar with this thing, so when you go to the store... Humans like to choose things that are familiar to them; it's just normal human behavior. So I think that when you go to the store, if your brain has been hit enough times with a certain product name, you're more likely, when you're thinking, "Which tennis shoe should I buy?," to say, "Ummm... Nike."”

“Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.”

Self Law Certain Social Democracy Duty Type Conflict Behavior Abandon Contracts Democracies Have Social Contract

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.”

Ifs Looks Certain Behavior Roots Discomfort

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.”

Thinking Certain Teacher Directors Behavior Expected Atmosphere Exploration Openness Relaxed Good Directors

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.”

Men World Way Kind Young Certain Influence Behavior Significant Behave Young Man Arab World

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.”

Men Humans Mean Character Problem Certain Education Four Materials Behavior Concerned Aim Method Intellect Topics

Author:Edward Thorndike

“The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.”

“The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.”

Has Beens Certain Lines Behavior Dues Accepted Manners Decline Desirable Rapids Courtesy Private Life Public Life

Book:Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

Source: Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

“To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.”

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.”

Knows Way Feels Firsts Has Beens Certain Fear Waiting Hours Imagine Plans Promise Lessons Conversation Behavior Affection Tension Anxious Loved Ones Transformed Drag Embarrassed

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Inside the mirrored elevator, Mulch used a telescopic pointer to push P for the penthouse. For the first few months he had jumped to reach the button, but that was undignified behavior for a millionaire. And besides, he was certain that Art could hear the thumping from the security desk.”

Firsts Art Used Certain Security Months Behavior Buttons Desks Millionaire Elevators Pointers Penthouses

Book:Artemis fowl: the Arctic incident

Source: Artemis fowl: the Arctic incident

“You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept.”

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