Best behavior & mean Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.”

Feels Years May Mean Shows Feelings Action Faces Fiction Novel Behavior Our Actions New Experiences Initiate

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“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

“Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.”

Men Mean Secret Discipline Behavior Ethics Code Rejects Poetry Is Capability Imperatives Falsification Categorical Imperative

Author:Jean Cocteau

“Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.”

“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.”

“Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling the powerful sexual urges that are feared will be released by nudity, causing chaotic behavior.”

Mean Religious Powerful Attitude Source Behavior Urges Clothings Chaotic Nudity

Author:Patricia Garfield

“To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion is one of them- knows where to bend and how to break them.”

Knows Mean Art Artist Break Discipline Skills Behavior Behave Proportion

Author:Burne Hogarth

“But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.”

Mean Doe War Violence Behavior Capable Intellect Arguing Inevitable Sophisticated Innate

Author:Jane Goodall

“Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own autonomous course, but the government, when there's a recession, compensates by employment, by expansion of purchasing power, and in boom times corrects by being a restraining force. But it controls the great flow of demand into the economy, what since Keynesian times has been the flow of aggregate demand. That was the basic idea of Keynes so far as one can put it in a couple of sentences.”

“Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.”

Knows Mean Form Social Situation Behavior Empty Letters Debt Customers Friendly Reminders Really Mean Social Behavior

Author:Judith Martin

“The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values who will have no doubt in fulfilling their objectives by means of purged techniques with which they will influence the behavior of people and will control and watch the society in all details. It will become possible to exert a practically permanent watch on each citizen of the world.”

People World Mean Persons Values Watches Doubt Influence Citizens Behavior Details Technique Objectives Traditional Permanent No Doubt Elites Fulfilling Nwo Traditional Values

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.”

Mean Behavior Hatred Refuse Wounds Venom

Author:Wayne Dyer

“You seem cynical because you're always talking about that selfish behavior that's dressed up as altruism. It doesn't mean there isn't altruism. It just means that it's harder to make jokes about altruism.”

Mean Seems Talking Behavior Jokes Harder Selfish Cynical Altruism Dressed Up

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Money is a mystery. Not only is our behavior with respect to money sometimes puzzling and erratic, but our feelings about money are often contradictory, illogical, deep-rooted, and scarcely known even to our most secret selves. We are getting better at handling money, but what it means to us, how we use it to express ourselves, and how it can help us become all that we are meant to be remain murky issues.”

Mean Self Sometimes Helping Use Feelings Money Secret Known Issues Mystery Behavior Get Better Meant To Be Rooted Contradictory Illogical Puzzling Erratic

Author:Rosalie Maggio

“Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.”

Thinking Feels Mean Problem Class Taught Involved Behavior Concepts Definitions Productions Solve Behave Assumption

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained.”

People Thinking Mean Children Dream Share Crazy Mines Husband Behavior Logic Madness Patient Edges Insane I've Learned Professors Be Patient Tease Crazy People Unmotivated

Book:The Woman Upstairs

Source: The Woman Upstairs

“Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.”

Mean Persons Opportunity Successful Behavior Models Weight Management Lifestyle Permanent Life Changing Family And Friends Arena Really Mean Great Opportunity Permanent Change

Author:Francis Collins

“The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall determine them. The first educational question will not be 'what knowledge is of the most worth?' but 'what kinds of human beings do we wish to produce?' The possibilities virtually defy our imagination.”

“The term revolution means: a sudden, radical, and complete change from the way things are normally done. I love that definition because I really feel that in order for us to start walking in the kind of love that Christ commanded us to - the "love your neighbor as yourself" kind - it's going to take a radical change in our current behavior. The church has become passive and selfish and it's going to take a revolution to get us back to the place where we are not just talking the talk, but walking in a love that shows the world Christ's love.”

“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

“This is serious, if Martha gets the maximum sentence on all counts, she could serve 20 years in prison. Of course, you have to take off time off for good behavior, which means 20 years in prison.”

Ifs Years Mean Courses Serious Behavior Prison Sentences Maximum Time Off Good Behavior

Author:Conan O'Brien

“I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover, this behavior eventually leads to resentment. There's always a hidden agenda of What's in it for me? It's often suppressed, and this is why sacrifice is ultimately unwise and incomplete. Does this mean that there's no such thing as altruism, philanthropy, or generosity? No, it just means that anytime these exist, so do egocentricity, misanthropy, and greed. There's always a balancing force, even if it's sometimes hidden or unconscious.”

“Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?”

Humans Mean Ideas Ends Seems Form Balance Behavior Photography Notion Proportion Motivated Human Behavior

Author:James Nachtwey

“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.”

“Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, actions, ways of holding and moving ourselves, they all influence what happens around us and inside us. The actions of every instant, every day, must be right...Every gesture is important. How we eat, how we put on our clothes, how we wash ourselves, how we go to the toilet, how we put our things away, how we act with other people, family, wife, work - how we are: totally, in every single gesture.”

People Way Mean Important Happens Action Moving Consciousness Attitude Environment Wife Influence Behavior Clothes Instant Gestures Toilets Here And Now Our Words

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson shows that religions always serve to coordinate and orient people's behavior toward each other and toward the group as a whole, sometimes for the purpose of competing with other groups.”

People World Mean Sometimes Whole Shows Together Purpose Groups Behavior Despite Latin Links Competing Variation Wilson Coordinates

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“I find it very annoying that so many animal advocates talk about the difficulty of being vegan. Many animal advocates are inclined to make the issue their suffering and not the animals' suffering, and I suppose that accounts for part of the reason that veganism is portrayed as such a "sacrifice." And many animal advocates are not vegans, or are "flexible vegans," which means that they do not observe veganism at all or not consistently, and emphasizing the supposed difficulty of veganism is part of justifying their own behavior.”

Mean Reason Suffering Animal Issues Sacrifice Behavior Accounts Difficulty Vegan Annoying Consistently Flexible Veganism Animal Suffering

Author:Gary L. Francione

“There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex is only about sex in snakes, or sex in egg-laying reptiles. Although a biologist's job in part is to interpret what organisms do in a broader context, that context does not, and should not, need to include a lesson for human beings. This is true regardless of whether the lesson is something we would like to teach, which means that using animals as vehicles for nonsexist thinking is just as out of bounds as using them to keep women barefoot and pregnant.”

“3 "amnesty" didn't mean rewarding illegal behavior.”

Mean Behavior Illegal Amnesty

Author:John McCain

“I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's behavior, I will advise you to tell the child to take a lap.”

Ifs Mean Children Asks Psychology Behavior Majors Ask Me Temples Minors Lap Advise Child Psychology Physical Education

Book:Bill Cosby on Fatherhood

Source: Bill Cosby on Fatherhood

“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

“Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get reciprocation tendency, you get deprival super-reaction syndrome, the thing is going away... I mean it just absolutely is designed to manipulate people into idiotic behavior.”

People Wells Mean Made Guy Turns Social Brain Behavior Proof Reactions Tendencies Going Away Manipulate Other Guys Syndromes Idiotic Bidding Auctions

Author:Charlie Munger

“Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.”

“The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it is a creation, but above all in the fact that it is one of the most effective means of shaping our ideas and influencing our behavior.”

Mean Ideas Facts Reality Eye Lying Influence Creation Behavior Photography Importance Permit Lenses Distortion

Author:Gisele Freund

“Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.”

May Mean Seems Natural Civilization Behavior Standards Conform

Author:Andy Rooney

“Responsibility means to perform our service properly,with proper attitude, behavior and words.”

Mean Attitude Responsibility Behavior

Author:Radhanath Swami

“Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.”

People Wells Mean Children Sometimes Age Teach Discipline Behavior Findings Criticism Encouragement Faults Confused Fault Finding

Author:Susan W. Tanner

“Most of the AI goes into figuring which are the important pages you want. And to some extent what your query means, and what you're likely to be after based on your previous behavior and other information it collects about you.”

Want Mean Important Information Behavior Pages Queries

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“Don't confuse acceptance with being a naïve or weak person. Acceptance does not mean condoning negative behavior, staying in a bad situation, or not working to improve our life and the world.”

World Mean Persons Doe Situation Our Lives Acceptance Behavior Negative Weak Staying Bad Situations Negative Behavior

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“You know you are addicted to a food if despite knowing it is bad for you and despite wanting to change, you still keep eating it. Addiction means that a craving has more control over your behavior than you do.”

Ifs Knows Mean Stills Knowing Behavior Eating Addiction Despite Over You Craving

Book:Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World (Large Print 16pt)

“There is a Greek word that is called "Praxis" and that means the integration of your beliefs with your behavior.”

Mean Belief Behavior Greek Integration Praxis

Author:John Assaraf

“Each of us can and must shift our behavior according to our ability. For some, that means changing diet, shopping locally, or putting solar panels on their house. For others, it means using their voice to inspire transformative change.”

Mean House Voice Ability Inspire Behavior Diets Shopping Solar Panels

Author:James Balog

“We also have to acknowledge that there are Millennials who don't know of the Clintons of the nineties, and we've always suspected that once they found out that... I mean, Bill Clinton's behavior was celebrated by Democrats in the nineties. Even by the feminazis!”

Knows Mean Found Behavior Bills Clinton Democrat Acknowledge Millennials

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation.”

Mean Kids Challenges Behavior Expectations Difficulty Meetings Communicate Signals Fever

Author:Ross W. Greene

“Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about politics - in fact, heaven forbid. But politics is a totally legitimate area of focus for any art, whether it's painting or songwriting or anything else, as much as sex is, as much as spirituality is, as much as any other behavior of people is.”

People Mean Art Facts Spirituality Heaven Sex Focus Painting Behavior Art Is Areas Songwriting Parts Of Life

Author:Bruce Cockburn

“Once the federal government has control of your health care, that means they can dictate your behavior.”

Mean Government Care Behavior Health Care Federal Government

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't do anything, then there is no point to worry. So in either case, worrying is an added suffering. But this does not mean of course that we should not be unhappy about injustice, abuse and other kinds of behavior that brings suffering upon others.”

Ifs Needs Should Kind Mean Doe Suffering Courses Can Do Cases Worry Circumstances Behavior Abuse Injustice Unhappy No Point Can Do Something Adverse

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“Anyone who studies the energy predicament understands its connection with the operations of capital - and by this I do not mean capitalism as an ideology, I mean the behavior of acquired wealth and its deployment for productive purpose. (A lot of educated idiots don't understand this, and we waste a lot of time blathering about capitalism.)”

Mean Purpose Energy Wealth Study Waste Behavior Capitalism Connections Educated Ideology Idiot Operations Productive Predicaments Deployment

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“The way one behaves and feels as a Dutchman and Dutchwoman is the result of a long development. It is by no means 'the natural way' or 'the human way' of behaving, it is a particular code of behavior which has developed over the years. And these people, the immigrant people, come from a group where different standards of conduct and behavior have developed. What clashes are these two standards of conduct and behavior.”

People Mean Long Different Natural Behavior Code Behave Clash

Author:Norbert Elias

“The Democrats are losing power in every election. And I think that's part of the panic. They want us to believe that the behavior and panic is rooted in an absolute outraged offense over this president that we have, this is just unacceptable and some maniac like Trump is so out of the ordinary, out of the norm, has to be stopped. I don't think that's what it is. I mean, it's part of it. But I think there's a much larger panic that is taking over the Democrat Party. And it's gonna implode on 'em.”

Thinking Believe Mean President Party Behavior Losing Election Democrat Offense Norm Want U Outraged

Author:Rush Limbaugh

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