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Behaviors and feelings rarely line up -- Richelle Mead
Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices. -- Randall Terry
Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Everybody is talking about the behavior. Behaviors float downstream to us. We need to paddle upstream. The problems that are causing the behaviors, that's what's waiting for us. It's a crucial paradigm shift. -- Ross W. Greene
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits. -- Dan Buettner
We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe. -- Alfred Kinsey
Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life. -- Joyce Meyer
In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science. -- David Perlmutter
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. -- Margaret Mead
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life! -- Greg Anderson
You can learn what you want to learn through hard work. And a good employer will teach you what you want to learn as long as you show the right attitude and behaviors. -- Gerald Chertavian
Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good. -- Simon Mainwaring
Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its classic form. Basically, it's an inability to relate to others. -- Harvey V. Fineberg
So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors. -- Barry McCaffrey
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors. -- Tony Robbins
Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes. -- Barry Ritholtz
Concerned consumers are realizing that they can use social media to organize themselves around shared values to start effective movements. Social media gives them a sounding board to share ideas, as well as a means to punish irresponsible corporate behaviors. -- Simon Mainwaring
It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time. -- Kevin Kelly
The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except Antarctica, they're in tropical rain forests, they're in deserts, they've evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they're capable of incredibly long-distance flights. -- Michael Dickinson
Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism. -- Simon Mainwaring
I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut down, go into denial, and try to start hiding things from yourself and others, that's when you lock in certain behaviors and attitudes that keep you stuck. -- Tracy McMillan
Within childhood behaviors, there are known behaviors; there's teasing and there's name-calling, and different kinds of things happen as kids start to socialize. And then there's serious bullying, and then there's actual aggression and behavioral problems. But you can't put it all under the tent of bullying. -- Julianne Moore
The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that you'll have little in the future. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on. -- Antonio Damasio
As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers. -- John Henrik Clarke
Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things. -- Andrew Weil
It's natural canine behavior to chew on all sorts of things, roll in other animals' droppings, hump and fight other dogs, menace anything that invades the home. All these behaviors can be curbed, but that takes a lot of work. Trainers say it requires nearly 2,000 repetitions of a behavior for a dog to completely absorb it. -- Jon Katz
I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved. -- Temple Grandin
Belief creates behaviors. -- Neale Donald Walsch
People are not their behaviors. -- Tony Robbins
Truly different behaviors require truly distinct situations. -- Joshua Meyrowitz
While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences. -- Stephen Covey
Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior. -- David Brooks
Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones. -- Margaret Mead
Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad. -- David D. Burns
Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. -- Jacque Fresco
You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors." -- Brene Brown
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness. -- Seth Godin
Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower -- Jacqueline Carey
Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently. -- John Donvan
Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion. -- Judith McNaught
Action is your power pusher to new behaviors that open your heart to freedom. -- Jude Bijou
I think identity issues have their place in the workplace, less so personal behaviors. -- Steven Petrow
Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results. -- Robin Sharma
Dominance is one of the most pervasive and important behaviors among wolves in a pack. -- L. David Mech
The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors. -- Dan Ariely
Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change. -- Virginia H. Pearce
Healthy communication and an unconditional environment can prove the greatest asset to defeating at-risk behaviors." -- Asa Don Brown
Habits are changed by practicing new behaviors, and this is true for mental habits as well. -- Wayne Dyer
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits." -- Dan Buettner
I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors. -- Richard Ayoade
For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves. -- Charles Duhigg
A revolution doesnâ??t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors -- Clay Shirky
Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases. -- James W. Pennebaker
Resolutions: So many will fail; NOT because they didn't set goals, but because they didn't set behaviors. -- Steve Maraboli
But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then? -- Dan Ariely
Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish. -- Thomas Szasz
Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits. -- Stephen Young
Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating. -- Judith Orloff
People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity. -- Shannon L. Alder
80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems ... they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people. -- Andy Stanley
What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them. -- Brian Tracy
There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors. -- Timothy Simons
I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home. -- Joseph Dougherty
To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors. -- Donald L. Hicks
I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does. -- Malcolm Gladwell
My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors. -- John Spence
Young children are being arrested and subjected to court appearances for behaviors that can only be termed as trivial. -- Henry Giroux
As an actor, I have to watch people and observe their behaviors - this is how I create characters. -- Josh McDermitt
Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors. -- Stephen Covey
As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable. -- Evgeny Morozov
More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow. -- Stephen Covey
To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables. -- B. F. Skinner
The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs. -- Neale Donald Walsch
To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors. -- Bill Crawford
If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors. -- Stephen Covey
The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope. -- Gever Tulley
The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors. -- Francis Collins
To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors. -- Ginni Rometty
It's easier to fall back into old behaviors when you come back to a place where you were a shorter person. -- Joseph Dougherty
I mean, not wanting to be flip about it, but even within a corporation, you get sort of cult-like behaviors sometimes. -- Jane Poynter
More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors. -- Simon Mainwaring
Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. -- Brian Tracy
Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption. -- Robert Nelson
Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself. -- Alfie Kohn
In middle age I've begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically. -- James Redford
here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility. -- Wayne Dyer
Cross-dressing is more of a set of actions or behaviors and not synonymous with gender identity (straight, gay, bisexual, transgender, among others). -- Steven Petrow
I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation. -- Iyanla Vanzant
God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast? -- Walter Kirn
We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors. -- Joshua Harris
All animals exhibit innate behaviors in response to specific sensory stimuli that are likely to result from the activation of developmentally programmed circuits. -- Richard Axel
When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within. -- Judith Wright
It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed. -- Lewis Schiff
Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego. -- Ram Dass
Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense of community. -- Dale Jamieson
Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepressants. -- Paul Greengard
True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes. -- Nicholas Lore
You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person. -- Kelly Williams Brown
Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses, -- Craig Johnson
When introverts are in conflict with each other...it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors! -- Adam S. McHugh
Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar. -- Lauren Mackler
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis. -- Albert Ellis
Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate yourself from the past. -- Deepak Chopra
I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself. -- Luc Sante
I'm trying to transform behaviors and ideas that have never been challenged in certain ways in my life. I'm not the kid that I was at 19. -- Nate Parker
As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment. -- Temple Grandin
Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness. -- Tami Hoag
I think more and more young people are catching on when it comes to certain healthy behaviors, much more than I did when I was younger. -- Jennifer Aniston
Whores have the ability to put up with behaviors other women would never manage to put up with. That's why we deserve to be generously compensated. -- Annie Sprinkle
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would proceed unobtrusively. . . . -- Sigmund Freud
A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors. -- Jaron Lanier

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