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  • Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

    Beautiful   Sex   Loss  
    Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.100
  • The evidence here, as elsewhere, suggests that education is certainly relevant, but more because better education is associated with general differences in patterns of life than because discrete parts of a lifestyle can be changed. Health-change policies which focus entirely on the individual may be ineffective not only because exposure to health risks is largely involuntary, but also, as this study has shown, because of unwarranted assumptions about the extent to which behaviour can, in these circumstances, be effective in improving health.

  • Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour.

  • 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.

  • Condemning all women in order to help some misguided men get over their foolish behaviour is tantamount to denouncing fire, which is a vital and beneficial element, just because some people are burnt by it, or to cursing water just because some people are drowned in it.

    Men   Fire   Order  
  • Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

    People   Behaviour   Path  
    Seamus Heaney (2014). “New Selected Poems 1988-2013”, p.91, Faber & Faber
  • One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

    Men   Suits   Degrees  
  • Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the body to reach the level of cooperation with the soul. When we fast, our intention is not to torture the body but to shun its behaviour. Thus, one who fasts becomes a spiritual and not a physical person. Fasting is an ascetic soul which takes the body with it as its partner in asceticism.

    Spiritual   People   Soul  
  • The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental activity can all be regarded as morphic fields which contain an inherent memory.

  • In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

    "The 100 best nonfiction books: No24 - The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith (1958)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2016.
  • I do believe that everything can look beautiful if you look at it from outside. The closer you zoom in, most of us exhibit behaviour that is strange to someone from outside.

    Source: www.empireonline.com
  • The behaviour of lovers is oscillating like the moon, and unpredictable as the weather.

    Moon   Weather   Dating  
  • It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.

    Women   Would Be   Looks  
  • There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.

    "Can Jean-François Copé save France from anti-Muslim extremism?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2011.
  • Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important. But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. The need to reflect critically on their own behaviour, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organisation’s problems, and then change how they act.

    Errors   People   Focus  
    "Teaching Smart People How to Learn". hbr.org. June 1991.
  • Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

    Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.73, Canongate Books
  • Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender role transformation (which is very common in a wide range of fauna). There is only one species on earth, however, which has exhibited homophobia or transphobia. And that is the species homo sapiens sapiens. Us. So let's not allow the foolish, ignorant or bigoted ever to use words like "natural."

    Sex   Animal   Ignorant  
  • I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical conduct are de-activated. Perhaps the greater the amount of money to be made, the greater the deactivation of the system that regulates ethical behaviour.

    Strong   Greed   Brain  
  • It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.

    Effort   Mind   Behaviour  
  • Young Michael Brown is still somewhat of a wild-child, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour!!

  • People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

  • Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

    Reader's Digest, Volume 68, 1956.
  • Selling your life to sit in a box and work for a machine. An uncaring machine that demands productivity that doesn't understand you and doesn't want to understand you... There's no natural behaviour. Everyone is wearing clothes they don't want to wear. Everybody is showing up and doing something they don't want to do. They have no connection to it. That's the problem with our society.

  • The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.

    David Malet Armstrong (1984). “D.M. Armstrong”, D Reidel Publishing Company
  • 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.

  • The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial.

    Mind   Important   Gains  
  • It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a sensitivity to the relative importance of different factors and a critical, almost an artistic, faculty in the selection of behaviour equations which are reasonable, tentative hypotheses in explaining the behaviour of actual economies.

    "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, pp. 16-17, 1958.
  • Gentlemanly, principled, helpful behaviour by older men vis-a-vis young women goes unnoticed, but it deserves real moral credit, and we could use more first-person testimony from the beneficiaries and practitioners about that too.

    Real   Men   Behaviour  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your Name to the Nations: we are deeply saddened by the behaviour of those who in the course of history have caused these children of yours to suffer, and asking your forgiveness we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with the people of the Covenant.

    Children   Father   Names  
    Pope John Paul II's Written prayer placed by the pope into the Western Wall in Jerusalem, during his apostolic journey to the Holy Land, w2.vatican.va. March 26, 2000.
  • I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.

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