Best behavior & matter Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Looking at voter behavior over the years I'm always interested to see and impressed to see how voters eventually find the key issues that matter to them to cast their vote.”

Years Matter Issues Keys Behavior Vote Casts Voters Impressed

Author:Steven J. Law

“We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no control, and what we could call 'behavioral dispositions'. We are responsible for our behavior, no matter what those dispositions are.”

Matter Eye Causes Color Hair Behavior Responsible No Matter What Characteristics Genes Disposition

Author:Erwin W. Lutzer

“I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.”

People Humans War Matter Human Beings Moral Dangerous Morality Behavior Intelligent Certainty Apologizing Subjective Halfway

Author:Steve Coogan

“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

“No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.”

Matter Facts Levels Deals Environment Particular Behavior Conscious Economics Being True Instance Unconscious Organisms Sinking Pragmatic Generalities

Author:Gregory Bateson

“Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.”

People Giving Matter Helping Feelings Influence Behavior Analysis

Book:The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations

Source: The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations

“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

“Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long history of short-term thinking and self-destructive behavior among my fellow comic book creators. No matter how many horror stories they have heard they won't even go so far as to hire themselves a lawyer when they need it. It breaks my heart. I am a very proud union member of the Writers Guild. And I can't imagine my fellow comic creators being able to pull something like this together.”

“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

“The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter of being coy, or withholding information. It's allowing for multiple possibilities, recognizing the complexity of human behavior, and making the world of a piece of fiction as marvelously confounding as the world we live in.”

“If people are smokers, don't they have to pay more? Sometimes, you get your insurance cheaper if you are a nonsmoker. So, let the markets sort this out and insurance sort it out, but not having dictates by the government saying thou, you must do this and your behavior doesn't matter, you know?”

People Ifs Knows Sometimes Matter Government Pay Behavior Cheaper Smokers

Author:Ron Paul

“A grifter's got an irresistible urge to be the guy who's wise. There's nothin' to whipping a fool. Hell, fools are made to be whipped. But to take another pro. Even your partner, who knows you and has his eye on you. That's a score! No matter what happens.”

Knows Made Matter Happens Eye Guy Hell Wise Crime Fool Behavior No Matter What Partners His Eyes Score Urges Cheating Irresistible Whipping

Author:Donald E. Westlake

“Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.”

Humans Wells Matter Realizing Human Beings Identity Behavior Capacity Mere Complexes Manipulation Homosexuality Distinguished Computation Kinsey

Book:Homosexual; oppression and liberation

Source: Homosexual; oppression and liberation

“There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting to discover how to fit in. They don't mean everything they do and say. They are just testing. . . . Take a good deal of your daughter's behavior with a grain of salt. Try to handle the really outrageous as matter-of-factly as you would a mistake in grammar or spelling.”

Trying Mean Matter Ability Deals Mistake Fit Behavior Daughter Tests Handle Salt Grain Testing Grammar Parallels Outrageous Spelling Your Daughter Grain Of Salt

Author:Stella Chess

“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

“For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose intellectual development is slowed down. No matter how well he is endowed intellectually, if direct action and immediate gratification are the guiding principles of his behavior, there will be less incentive to develop the higher mental processes, to reason, to employ the imagination creatively. . . .”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.”

Matter Character Novel Written Behavior Pious

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“We need more expensive gasoline to change consumer behavior," Mr. Jackson said. Otherwise, Americans will continue to favor big vehicles, not matter what kind of fuel-economy standards the government imposes on auto makers. Four dollars a gallon, he added, "is a good start.”

Needs Kind Said Matter Bigs Government Energy Economy Four Behavior Standards Trade Dollars Favors Consumers Fuel Expensive Makers Vehicle Caps Gasoline Gallons Fuel Economy

Author:Michael J. Jackson

“The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.”

“If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them”

Ifs Should Matter Fighting Belief Given Nations Rights Behavior Judgment Should Have Preserves Free Thought Prudes

Author:Stephen King

“We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.”

Humans Ideas Self Matter Feelings Easy Animal Mistake Fit Behavior Perception Conscious No Idea Appropriate Being Human Criteria Self Conscious Inappropriate Lizards Revulsion

Author:Douglas Adams

“Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few isolated incidents, but as a massive, institution-wide culture, a matter of policy even, that extends throughout the organization and reaches all the way to the top. Belonging to the Catholic Church - giving them money, letting them count you in their rolls, sending your children to their schools - gives this behavior your personal thumbs-up, and actively enables it to continue.”

“We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior over one hour in an artificial situation. This was a perfect instance of a general rule that I call WYSIATI, "What you see is all there is." We had made up a story from the little we knew but had no way to allow for what we did not know about the individual's future, which was almost everything that would actually matter. When you know as little as we did, you should not make extreme predictions like "He will be a star."”

“The confidentiality of the judicial process would not matter greatly to an understanding and evaluation of the legal system if the consequences of judicial behavior could be readily determined. If you can determine the ripeness of a cantaloupe by squeezing or smelling it, you don't have to worry about the produce clerk's mental processes.”

Ifs Matter Process Understanding Worry Produce Behavior Consequence Determine Determined Judicial Evaluation Clerks Legal System Squeezing Ripeness Confidentiality

Author:Richard Posner

“Tolerance sounds like a virtue, and at times it may be. [But should] a parent be tolerant of behavior that is harming a child? Or the police be tolerant of criminals who prey upon others? Should doctors be tolerant of disease, or public schoolteachers tolerant of any answer on an exam, no matter how wrong?”

Should May Children Matter Parent Sound Answers Virtue Disease Behavior Doctors Police Criminals Tolerance Prey Public School Exam

Author:Dave Hunt

“Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.”

“With small dogs people don't reinforce the same behavior that they do on a larger dog. If you are a driver no matter what size car you have it doesn't matter. Same thing goes for any gender. All the rules are the same.”

People Ifs Matter Dog Car Behavior No Matter What Size Gender Drivers Small Dogs

Author:Cesar Millan

“There is a compelling case showing us that we actually change people all the time. And when we fully realize this, we start to see how powerful we are to get others unstuck, see that their behavior matters, and start taking steps to create happiness and success in their lives.”

People Matter Realizing Powerful Steps Cases Behavior Compelling Happiness And Success

Author:Michelle Gielan

“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

“If we allow the United States to set the precedent that national borders don't matter when it comes to the protection of people's information, other countries are watching. They're paying attention to our examples and what is normative behavior in terms of dealing with digital information.”

People Ifs Country Matter States Term United Attention United States Information Example Behavior Protection Pay Attention Borders Digital Other Countries Precedent National Borders

Author:Edward Snowden

“Why somebody has a same-gender attraction... who can say? But what matters is the fact that we know we can control how we behave, and it is behavior which is important.”

Knows Important Matter Facts Behavior Gender Attraction Behave What Matters

Author:Lance B. Wickman

“In general, in the matters that relate to theology or behavior, people to one another, Paul was obviously biblically correct. But when he said that women should always cover their hair or that women should not teach men, women should not have leadership positions in the church, women should not speak in the church, I don't' think that those writings of Paul can be extracted by themselves to stand alone. Also, Paul said that women should be subservient to their husbands but if you read a couple of verses down it says husbands should treat their wives as equals.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Should Writing Said Matter Speak Church Teach Wife Position Hair Couple Husband Behavior Treats Theology Relate Verses Men Women Stand Alone Subservient

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.”

Men World Doe Matter Change Technology Study Subjects Essentials Behavior Physics Manipulation Yield Manipulate Subject Matter Nature Of Man

Author:Pope Paul VI

“Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.”

Matter Streets Wall Behavior Making Money Justify Cult Romney Forged

Author:Matt Taibbi

“Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.”

Matter Facts Culture Individual Members Ego Behavior Structure Acceptable Consensus Neurotic Mind Blowing Overcoat

Author:Terence McKenna

“Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for approval than with your need for support. No matter what their response, you need to be firm and hold your ground. At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.”

People Needs Ends Sometimes Matter Able Responsibility Support Behavior No Matter What Response Firm The End Of The Day Fitness Approval

Book:Winning by Losing: Drop the Weight, Change Your Life

Source: Winning by Losing: Drop the Weight, Change Your Life

“Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister. No matter how new the face or how different the dress and behavior, there is no significant division between us and other people. It is foolish to dwell on external differences, because our basic natures are the same.”

People Inspirational Needs Feels Different Matter Faces Differences Share Brother Circumstances Behavior Dresses Foolish Significant Buddhist Division Identical

Book:The Compassionate Life

Source: The Compassionate Life

“And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to. Do you remember making me swear to repeat all those naughty actions agian, no matter what you said this morning?" Now that he brought it up, I did recall saying that. Great Betrayed by my own immorality. "God, Bones...some of that was depraved." "I'll take that as a compliment." He closed the distance between us."I love you. Don't be ashamed of anything we did, even if your prudery is on life support.”

“The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.”

Humans Matter Whole Sex Human Beings Behavior Reactions Prototype

Book:Collected papers ...

Source: Collected papers ...

“No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.”

Matter Hard Might Able Wish Behavior China

Author:Madeleine Albright

“Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer,but we must never forget spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love,and with love,there are no rules some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior,others may turn to reading books of advice from "experts" on relationships but this is all folly.The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.”

“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

“‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior”

Giving Matter Feelings Happens Asks Cases Too Much Behavior Brave Intention Humble Selfish Thanks Bother What Matters Altered Cowardly Conceited

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed down to you to tell you how to behave. You are told that through due practice you can even eventually come into the state attained by the sages, saints and saviors of mankind. And so you try to control your behavior, to control your thoughts, to be something unnatural.”

Men Trying Matter States Culture Born Perfect Practice Mankind Behavior Ideals Tradition Saint Dues Doctrine Behave Savior Sage Unnatural Perfect Man

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?! Hobbes: Santa makes the toys, so he gets to decide who to give them to. Calvin: Oh.”

Knows Giving Made Matter Fate Demand Behavior Dear Toys Submit Santa Scrutiny Hobbes

Author:Bill Watterson

“And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.”

Giving Should Matter Problem Seems Might Simple Positive Positive Thinking Giving Up Behavior Response Encounters Never Giving Up Insurmountable

Book:You Can Make It Happen Every Day

Source: You Can Make It Happen Every Day

“I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.”

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