Best behavior & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.”

“We started off with physical evolution and got our form. Then we somehow developed language, which meant cultural evolution could race so we could change our behavior really quickly instead of over hundreds and hundreds of years. And then comes moral evolution, which means we're not frightfully far along with people. And maybe we end up with a spiritual evolution, which is this connectedness with the rest of the life forms on the planet.”

People Years Mean Ends Spiritual Form Language Race Moral Planets Evolution Behavior Connectedness Spiritual Evolution

Author:Jane Goodall

“[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that women are inferior.”

Men Action Language Views Policy Behavior Definitions Consistent Sexism Inferiors Comprehensive Systematic

Book:Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary

Source: Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary

“If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.”

“Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals dont think in a language. Its sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. Its putting these sensory based memories into categories.”

Thinking Language Memories Animal Talking Behavior Smell Categories Autism Sensory Animal Behavior

Author:Temple Grandin

“Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a new measure of sexual freedom, there's still no word in the language that doesn't reek with pejorative connotation to describe a woman who has sex freely. Since language frames thought and sets its limits, this is not a trivial matter. For without a word that describes without condemning, it's hard to think about it neutrally as well. When we say the words 'promiscuous woman,' therefore, it's a statement about her character, not just her sexual behavior.”

Thinking Wells Stills Two Matter Hard Character Language Sex Women Interesting Half Revolution Limits Behavior Decades Statements Condemning Connotation Promiscuous Sexual Revolution

Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by our appearance, our choice of associates, our behavior. Language communicates so much more than ideas; it reveals our intelligence, our knowledge of a topic, our creativity, our ability to think, our self-confidence, et cetera.”

Thinking Ideas Self Choices Language Leadership Ability Creativity Doubt Speech Behavior Communicate Appearance Self Confidence No Doubt Judged Associates Topics Our Choices

Book:The Language of leadership

Source: The Language of leadership

“I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.”

Wells Language Social Parent Simple Rooms Millions Grace Doors Behavior Expectations Constant Silly Abstract Rebellion Household Better Life Closed Doors Well Mannered Social Graces

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.”

“They're both about the correct or proper way to do something. There is a correct and proper way to use words and there is a correct and proper way to behave with other people. And I behaved improperly with John and feel bad, so I compensate by obsessing with language, which is easier to control than behavior.”

People Way Feels Use Language Easier Behavior Behave Obsessing

Book:Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel

Source: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel

“When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.”

People Needs Humans Sometimes Feelings Seems Language Human Beings Seeing Behavior Monsters Humanness

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

World Needs Mean Language Generations Limits Behavior Significant Drivers Timeless

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Let's have some boilerplate language that accurately describes the candidate that we're talking about. If readers are unfamiliar, here are the descriptions of his behavior and here are the links to that behavior that is described.”

Ifs Language Talking Reader Behavior Candidates Description Links Unfamiliar

Author:Ryan Grim

“Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can be associated with some degree of intellectual disability, but the two core features of autism, I see, is impairments and social cognition, understanding and in restricted interests and repetitive behaviors.”

“I'm not on Twitter. In theory, I really like Instagram. I think it's a warmer environment. I think, though conversations can erupt that aren't always friendly, you have an opportunity to jump in and redirect and even caution people against language and behavior that I personally object to.”

People Thinking Opportunity Language Environment Objects Theory Conversation Behavior Friendly Caution Instagram

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“Donald Trump's language has been atrocious, his behavior toward women.”

Has Beens Language Trump Behavior

Author:Bernie Sanders

“If you see a child with autistic-like behaviors at age two and three, the worst thing you can do is just let them sit and watch TV all day. That's just the worst thing you can do. You need to have a teacher working with that child, working on teaching language, working on social interaction, working on getting them interested in different things, and keeping their brain connected to the world.”

“The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.”

Mind Looks Language Brain Influence Particular Behavior Scientist Structure Polyglots

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a story... 'The Giver' or any other... is simply an exploration of the nature of behavior: why people do what they do, how it affects others, how we change and grow, and what decisions we make along the way.”

People Thinking Way Love Writing Book Stories Age Language Grows Decision Behavior Exploration Fascinated Giver Tick Decisions We Make

Author:Lois Lowry

“But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.”

Way Humans Sometimes Language Human Beings Communication Behavior Defense Motive Hiding Preventing Body Language Concealing Peak Experiences Language And Communication Languages Communication Verbal Communication

Author:Abraham Maslow

“When I was a child, my behavior was far from being what most people would label 'intelligent.' It was often limited, repetitive and anti-social. I could not do many of the things that most people take for granted, such as looking someone in the eye or deciphering a person's body language, and only acquired these skills with much effort over time.”

People Children Persons Body Eye Language Social Effort Skills Behavior Intelligent Granted Labels Body Language Repetitive Anti Social

Author:Daniel Tammet

“The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.”

Mean Language Common Mankind Behavior Philosophical

Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

“The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.”

Reality Form Language Loss Levels Quality Objects Behavior Productions Stem Commodity Evident Spectacular Glorify

Author:Guy Debord

“Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior; learn tenderness toward experience, then make decisions based on creating biological wealth that includes all people, animals, cultures, currencies, languages, and the living things as yet undiscovered; listen to the truth the land will tell you; act accordingly.”

Source: The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold

“There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.”

Way Use Christian Language Behavior Logic Conclusion Utterance

Author:Greg L. Bahnsen

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