Best behavior & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?”

Ifs Feels Trying Littles Hard Body Asks Pay Cutting Policy Needed Behavior Quitting Firm Boards Employee Unfair Unemployment Behalf Dissatisfied

Author:Janet Yellen

“If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.”

Ifs Might Love You Behavior Capable Love Yourself Just Love Yourself

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.”

Ifs Community Views Serious Authority Behavior Happenings Ordinary Scientist Fundamentals Disturbing Baltimore

Book:Challenges

Source: Challenges

“If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.”

Ifs Ends Acting Dog Behavior Manners Behaviour Rats Behaviorism Pavlov

Author:Richard Rosen

“A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they're sci-fi but they're not.”

People Ifs Looks Important Happens Running Today Jobs Law Behavior Concepts Areas Machines Criminals Software Sci Fi Law Enforcement Enforcement

Author:Jose Padilha

“Forgiving behavior is dealing with situations as they arise in an assertive manner and then letting go of any lingering resentment. As the leader, if you are not able to let go of the resentment, it will consume you and render you ineffective.”

Ifs Able Situation Leader Letting Go Behavior Forgiving Arise Resentment Lingering Assertive

Author:James Hunter

“The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.”

“Love involves more than just feelings. It is also a way of behaving. When Sandy said, "My parents don't know how to love me," she was saying that they don't know how to behave in loving ways. If you were to ask Sandy's parents, or almost any other toxic parents, if they love their children, most of them would answer emphatically that they do. Yet, sadly, most of their children have always felt unloved. What toxic parents call "love" rarely translates into nourishing, comforting behavior.”

Ifs Knows Way Children Said Feelings Asks Felt Parent Answers Healing Know How Behavior Behave Toxic Teens Translate Comforting How To Love Unloved Sandy

Author:Susan Forward

“Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me' and other such simple courtesies...Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.”

“You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're afraid, you don't care about those values very much.”

Ifs Government Care Values Sacrifice Behavior Don't Care Agency Wrong Things Government Agencies

Author:Edward Snowden

“Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.”

Ifs Behavior Behaviour Venus

Author:Apuleius

“I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.”

Ifs Looks Ought Behavior Misbehaving

Author:Orson Welles

“I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.”

Ifs Should Periods Behavior Direct Rewards Appearance Favors Behave Korea North Korea Missiles Korean Bad Behavior North Korean

Author:Richard Armitage

“Our state of mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a person has a calm and stable mind, this influences his or her attitude and behavior in relation to others. In other words, if someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.”

Source: Path To Tranquility

“Sex is meant to be, if not addictive, at least a very compelling behavior.”

Ifs Sex Women Behavior Meant To Be Compelling

Author:Joy Browne

“Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.”

Ifs Looks Problem Women Can Do Behavior Judgment Symptoms Can Do Something

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“People associate clothes with actual behavior, and it's kind of crazy. If you get shot in some Levi's you don't go after Levi's. It's not the clothes. It's always the people.”

People Ifs Kind Crazy Behavior Clothes Shots Associates Levi's

Author:Ice Cube

“The thing that you learn in directing is that when you're on the floor, no matter how complex the shooting is...you have to remain absolutely sensitive to every nuance of the behavior of the people around you. Because, ultimately, if you don't keep in mind the overall humanity, then the machine takes over and suddenly all you have are technically fine shots, technically good performances. The story's being told, but something's lacking, something mysterious, indefinable.”

People Ifs Mind Matter Stories Humanity Fine Behavior Shots Machines Performances Complexes Mysterious Shooting Sensitive Lacking Nuance Indefinable Lacking Something

Author:Irvin Kershner

“Grace-driven effort wants to get to the bottom of behavior, not just manage behavior. If you're simply managing behavior but not removing the roots of that behavior, then the weeds simply sprout up in another place.”

Ifs Want Effort Grace Behavior Roots Bottom Driven Manage Weed Sprouts

Author:Matt Chandler

“If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.”

People Ifs Opportunity Attitude Style Habit Behavior Patterns Casual Orientation Behavior Patterns

Author:William Julius Wilson

“If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how cute he is and go on about the business of being an adult. But he is dangerous and destructive, with the True Believer's very purpose being the total destruction of everything that God and science-most obviously Western Civilization-has ever created. ...The Modern Liberal will invariably and, in fact, inevitably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.”

Ifs Facts Purpose Evil Sides Modern Dangerous Goes On Civilization Behavior Adults Destruction Western Believer Cute Destructive Western Civilization True Believer God And Science

Author:Evan Sayet

“Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower" animals with simple nervous systems arise as genetic products of natural selection, then human behavior should have a similar basis.”

“If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation. Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated and must not be condemned by genetic speculation.”

People Ifs Needs Humans Life Is Liberty Position Behavior Adults Philosophical Sticks Worthy Arguing Speculation Private Life Unnatural Condemnation Vindicated

Book:Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

Source: Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

“People don't change at their core. If you're a good person, you are a good person. What changes is our behavior.”

People Ifs Persons Behavior Core Good Person Don't Change People Don't Change

Author:Karrine Steffans

“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

“For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated.”

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“If there's any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it's flawed logic. It's just I simply can't accept that. It's unacceptable to think that there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective.”

“All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all... Ah, well, that's not a fruitful thing to wish, is it?”

Ifs World Wells Wish Animal Behavior Reaching Habitat Another Life Animal Behavior

Author:Brian Aldiss

“While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.”

People Ifs Men Life Is Accepting Behavior Comfortable Burden Unfair Good Sense Inevitability Announcements Unfairness Sturdy Beastly Life Is Unfair

Author:Russell Baker

“The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Wells Form Choices Belief Sex Term Failing Succeed Members Behavior Normal Capacity Human Behavior Capacity To Love Bisexuality Human Capacity

Author:Margaret Mead

“In dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough enough to actually change behavior -- for if we want a lasting peace, then the words of the international community must mean something. Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable. Sanctions must exact a real price. Intransigence must be met with increased pressure -- and such pressure exists only when the world stands together as one.”

“Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.”

Ifs Behavior All Things Indulge Indulge In Bad Behavior

Author:Anthony Daniels

“There is a perverse comfort zone to living a small life. For women, that zone has to do with the fact that we're less likely to be challenged, we're less likely to be criticized, we're less likely to be called angry or strident, if we simply go along and acquiesce to the prevailing patterns of thought and behavior.”

Ifs Facts Comfort Behavior Angry Patterns Zone Comfort Zone Prevailing Small Life

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Five hundred thousand Americans die from tobacco poisoning every year, and it's legal. I don't know, it just that's the - you can't stop giving people organs because of bad behavior. If you keep on having bad behavior, then of course they'll deny you a liver, or whatever you need.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Giving Years Dies Courses Five Thousand Behavior Hundred Deny Organs Tobacco Liver Poisoning Bad Behavior

Author:Larry Hagman

“When America's creditors consider our behavior they see total fiscal irresponsibility. They see a deluded country that acts as if it is a privilege for foreigners to lend to it, and a deluded country that believes that foreigners will continue to accumulate US debt until the end of time. The fact of the matter is that the US is bankrupt.”

Ifs Believe Ends Country Matter Facts America Behavior Privilege Debt End Times Foreigners Deluded Creditors Irresponsibility

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information”

Ifs Persons Given Interest Information Behavior Rational

Author:Robert Aumann

“You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even if we abolish war, we shall not abolish hate and greed. So might it have been argued about slave emancipation, that slavery was but one aspect of human disgustingness, and that to abolish it would not end the barbarity that causes it. But did the abolitionists therefore waste their breath? And do we waste ours now in protesting against war?”

“If you want to catch more fish, more often, take luck out of your fishing equation and replace it with knowledge of fish, their habitat and behavior, and you will make your own luck.”

Ifs Want Sea Behavior Rivers Luck Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Equations Habitat

Author:Tony Bishop

“My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Lasts Mother Behavior Rational Last Year

Book:Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.”

Ifs World Humans Looks Behavior Around The World Aggressive Human Behavior

Author:Jane Goodall

“In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people we publicly criticize that and don't belong to those groups or associate with those people.”

People Ifs Groups Behavior Civilized Criticize Tolerate Associates Free Society Abhorrent

Author:Rand Paul

“Most people do not realize that as they continue to find things to complain about, they disallow their own physical well-being. Many do not realize that before they were complaining about an aching body or a chronic disease, they were complaining about many other things first. It does not matter if the object of your complaint is about someone you are angry with, behavior in others that you believe is wrong, or something wrong with your own physical body. Complaining is complaining, and it disallows improvement.”

People Ifs Firsts Believe Wells Doe Matter Body Realizing Objects Disease Behavior Angry Complaining Improvement Well Being Complaints Physical Body

Author:Esther Hicks

“What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.”

Ifs Persons Made Stills Hard Natural Dog Kings Behavior Overcoming Shoes Manners Behaviour Lace Propensity

Author:Bill Vaughan

“If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.”

Ifs Should Persons Stuff Simple Periods Behavior Obvious Improvement Autism Medication

Author:Temple Grandin

“Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.”

Ifs Men Writing Humans Character Fall Social Comedy Groups Worst Depends Ego Behavior Tragedy Impulse One Man Versus Foe Wire Pits Social Life Massage

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.”

Ifs Should Community Behavior Should Have Manners Inevitable Code Etiquette Parts Of Life

Book:Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage

Source: Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage

“If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.”

Ifs Long Would Be Perfect Trouble Behavior Crisis

Author:Angela Thirkell

“Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.”

People Ifs Born Husband Behavior Blame Raised Treated Live Life Fancy Apology Unattractive Born And Raised Earn Respect

Author:Germaine Greer

“If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. Don't own other people's crap.”

People Ifs Bigs Turns Behavior Jealousy Jealous Crap Petty Often Is Unkind

Book:Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul

Source: Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul

“An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.”

People Ifs Needs May Ideas Play Moving Audience Week Behavior Perception Producers Mainstream Masterpiece Fringe Promoters

Author:David Bornstein

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