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There's no map to human behaviour. -- Bjork
Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality. -- Maxwell Maltz
I find American behaviour...odd -- Kate Beckinsale
Contraries are cured by contraries. -- Bill Vaughan
Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour. -- George A. Sheehan
People who have little to do are excessive talkers. -- Bill Vaughan
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition. -- Bill Vaughan
Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. -- Ben Kingsley
Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere. -- Seamus Heaney
The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded. -- Kin Hubbard
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. -- Gore Vidal
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based. -- Deepak Chopra
It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth. -- Helen Garner
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so. -- Richard Rosen
It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour. -- Xander Berkeley
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour. -- Shirley Manson
Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. -- Thom Mayne
When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence. -- Evan Dando
The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head! -- Ben Kingsley
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. -- Lewis Thomas
Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour? -- Kristin Davis
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling -- Fanny Burney
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. -- Albert Einstein
We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down. -- Chester Brown
We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view. -- Gavin MacLeod
Judge no one until you know their circumstances. No matter how awful they seemed, sometimes there was a valid reason for their behaviour. Granted, some people were just mean and corrupt, but not always. Many people were just in pain, and by acting out, they were only trying to protect themselves from being hurt more. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Most bad behaviour comes from insecurity. -- Debra Winger
I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour. -- Werner Herzog
Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit. -- Joe Eszterhas
In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light. -- David Fincher
People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil. -- Bertie Carvel
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses. -- Andrew Lansley
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine. -- Alice Walker
People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition. -- Jane Goodall
We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules. -- Evan Davis
I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else. -- Tony Parsons
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour. -- Gary Oldman
I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable. -- Bill Murray
That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively. -- Isaac Barrow
I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel or kind, and they act on the basis of that - often in the face of the prevailing limits of behaviour. -- Morris Gleitzman
Actions speak louder than words. There is a big difference between what people say and what they do. People might tell you they are excited about your new product, but when they are in a buying situation their behaviour might be totally different. -- Alexander Osterwalder
There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things. -- Neil Peart
The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness. -- Kathy Griffin
There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself. -- Kate Dickie
They say it's not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It's the waiting for the nasal passages of the person lying beside you to strike again. And strike it always does. In the dark, almost against your will, you produce that special glare reserved for people who cannot control their own behaviour. -- Sloane Crosley
Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. -- Jaron Lanier
Do not encourage my behaviour. -- Carlos Mencia
My past behaviour makes me cringe. -- Denise Van Outen
Praise behaviour that you want repeated -- Dean Smith
I just get grumpy with bad behaviour. -- Anton du Beke
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference. -- Cesare Pavese
Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour. -- Michael Marmot
The basic fundamental of behaviour should be to give. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country. -- Sara Paretsky
You can find inspiration for man's behaviour wherever you look. -- Marilyn Manson
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. -- Naomi Wolf
... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour). -- Hilary Putnam
At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour. -- Lucy Powell
Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour. -- Colin S. Gray
You can predict anything in this world but not the nature's behaviour -- Ningraj
The sex drive is the most important and powerful behaviour in mankind. -- Richard Ramirez
We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. -- A. J. P. Taylor
I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour. -- Bill Bryson
Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality. -- Theresa May
The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour -- Laura Dern
The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour. -- Laura Dern
We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly. -- Jane Goodall
Synchronise your behaviour with your intent and never loose sight of your smile. -- Truth Devour
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity. -- Yann Martel
Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour. -- Gichin Funakoshi
There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour. -- Theresa May
People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period. -- Uday Kiran
The behaviour of lovers is oscillating like the moon, and unpredictable as the weather... -- Bernd Schuster
I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it. -- Sarah Kane
We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people. -- C. S. Lewis
Nothing inspires me greater than the silly behaviour and crazy ideas of my best friends... -- Mykyta Isagulov
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. -- Alain de Botton
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. -- George Orwell
Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will. -- Peter Singer
When you are stressed on mind...to pour it out, is the behaviour, most kind! -- Sujit Lalwani
I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am. -- Mariah Carey
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. -- Thomas Nagel
Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors. -- Keith Henson
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults? -- Barbara Kingsolver
Young Michael Brown is still somewhat of a wild-child, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour!! -- Clive Tyldesley
I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour. -- Ben Kingsley
Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified. -- Adolf Hitler
Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour. -- Marina Abramovic
I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour -- Gary Becker
Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour. -- Mohammad Hamid Ansari
I'd been interested in animal behaviour as a teenager and had thought of studying it at one point. -- Michelle Paver
You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour. -- Keith Rabois
The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal. -- Ozzy Osbourne
Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions. -- Marianne Faithfull
Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated. -- George Orwell
I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect. -- Michel de Montaigne
It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand -- Dave Allen
I guess I'm an actor - just human behaviour's just fascinating to me. I mean, I'd like to be... -- Rachel McAdams
There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all -- Bjork
To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour. -- Jacobus Arminius
Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy. -- Gautama Buddha
The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God. -- Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God. -- Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour. -- Cecelia Ahern
Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society. -- David Blunkett
It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men. -- Rodney Stark
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. -- Bill Vaughan
Pets inspire many different types of behaviour in their owners, mostly ranging from adoration to ridiculous obsessiveness, in my experience. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence. -- Dalai Lama
No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them. -- Chris Morris
Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life. -- Alfred Adler
A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect. -- Barry Levinson
You can't change someone's behaviour, all you can do is remind them, and hope that Allah will change their heart. -- Nouman Ali Khan
In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

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