#behavior

It's interesting that there are only two groups of people in our country who are not held accountable for their behavior or decisions. One is exempted by the constitution, and that is foreign diplomats. The other, through a loophole, is HMOs. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#behavior #constitution #country #decisions #diplomats

For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction. ↗

— George Stephanopoulos

#clinton #debase #himself #his #impulsive

Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items. ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#any #behavior #except #express #extra

The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#human-behavior #human-condition #human-race #humanity-and-society #internet

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#by the time #camera #character #film #front

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#being #communication #concealing #defense #hiding

And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#developed #doing #emotionally #everything #go

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#competitive #doomed #ecological #evolutionary #extinction

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#attire #behavior #even #frame #grace

It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others. ↗

— Bob Nelson

#behavior #changing #easier #effective #far