The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.
Author: Alfred Adler (1870-1937)
Profession: Austrian Psychiatrist
The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.
Author: Joe Ancis
Profession:
Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
Author: W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
Profession: Anglo-American Poet
Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
Author: Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)
Profession: British Dramatist
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Author: Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898)
Profession: Prussian Statesman, Prime Minister
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
Author: Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Profession: Scottish Philosopher, Author
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.
Author: Noam Chomsky (1928)
Profession: American Linguist, Political Activist
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Author: C. E. Coghill
Profession:
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Author: Leonard Cohen (1934)
Profession: Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Author: George W. Crane
Profession:
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
Author: Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Profession: French Philosopher, Scientist
At the time, my grandparents told my mom, ''Lordy, what is Shannen doing?'' Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation for bad behavior]
Author: Shannen Doherty (1971)
Profession: American Actress
Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
Author: Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Profession: German-born American Physicist
A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
Author: Charles A. Garfield
Profession: American Peak Performance Expert, Researcher, Trainer
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)
Profession: German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist