Home / Topics / Behavior Quotes

Behavior Quotes

Browse 3385 quotes about Behavior.

Behavior Quotes

“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

“The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible. Logical and linguistic analysis demonstrate that the old metaphysical problems are illusory problems; the quest for the "meaning" of things can be reformulated as the quest for the meaning of words, and the established universe of discourse and behavior can provide perfectly adequate criteria for the answer.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.”

Law Secret Behavior Agency Rule Of Law Intelligence Agencies Good Behavior

Author:Julian Assange

“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

“That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty little secret is that the rallying cry is a whisper.... The great unspoken on the heterosexual AIDS front has been how behavior is still determined by the old psychosexual minuet of the sexes, the lack of responsibility in young men and of assertiveness in young women.”

“Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must also create a gay life.”

World Enough Form Desire Sex Sides Secret Creative Creation Possibility Gay Behavior Discovery Sexuality Our World Homosexuality Creative Life Fatality Forms Of Love Gay Life

Author:Michel Foucault

“The secret of creating anything new in your life consists of creating new commitments and then holding the tiller to your new course until it becomes established as a behavior.”

Courses Secret Behavior Creating Commitment

Book:The Pathfinder: How to Choose Or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success

Source: The Pathfinder: How to Choose Or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success

“I could not kick heroin to save my life, literally, until I started telling my secrets. It was some of the clearest evidence I've ever found of anything. It was the only immediate change in behavior I've ever undergone. I told the most frightening truths, and I was free.”

Found Secret Behavior Evidence Kicks Frightening Heroin

Author:Melissa Febos

“If your partner asks you if something bothers you, and something bothers you, the best thing you can do is say, "Yes, it bothers me." Otherwise you create a situation where they think everything is fine, continue with the offending behavior, while you build up a secret reservoir of resentment that will eventually come pouring out, to their shock.”

Thinking Secret Situation Behavior Bother Resentment

Author:Mallory Ortberg

“The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.”

Secret Enemy Behavior Understood Organization Assuming Controlled Conquest Hilarious Cabal

Author:Robert Conquest

“Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage.”

Ifs Thinking Needs May Ideas Wisdom Action Fun Perfect Secret Behavior Perfection Absolutes Here And Now Disregard

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj