Behavior Analysis Quotes

The first step in making better choices is to simply be brutally honest about your own behavior to yourself. What are the choices you are making? How are you spending your time? What are you neglecting that you shouldn't?

I'm fascinated by real-time behavior.

If the film isn't in some way going to study behavior then I'm not interested, but the reason why I'm not interested in directing in film is that it would take me, to be as good an artist as I feel I am an actor, it would take me another 35 just to conquer.

Because as an actor, I really feel you cannot judge a character. You have to totally commit to that character. And for me to totally commit to the character, I have to find those places where I understand the sequence of behavior.

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman - have thought it wise to understand oneself and one's behavior.

We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at how he's behaved. The fact is he's been making concessions recently. He gave up his nuclear weapons. He allowed hundreds of Americans to evacuate Tripoli. Did he crack down on his people who revolted? Yes, but that's not so unusual. For me, it's always a failure of diplomacy. Our willingness to immediately turn to a military solution is disturbing.

It's about average for us. Behavior always draws more than survey. We're the sexy ones,' Nate said with a grin. Amy snorted. 'Oh, yeah, you guys are the Mae Wests of the nerd world.' We're action nerds,' Nate said. 'Adventure nerds. Nerds of romance.

Count the deed, not the thought.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

If something doesn't turn out as planned, you will ask yourself, 'How did I create that? What was I thinking? What were my beliefs? What did I say or not say? What did I do or not do to create that result? How did I get the other person to act that way? What do I need to do differently next time to get the result I want?'

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.

I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals. When a witness hesitated, my mind would race to the conclusion that he was trying to hide something. What was it? I'd dissect the story in my brain and nine times out of ten figure out a hole they were trying to avoid.

With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.

Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

I need to do psychology classes. That would be so interesting to me, studying people.

You just let people do what they do and look at them and give them enough rope until they do what you thought they were going to do... which is screw you over.

I'm really calculating when it comes to these scripts - I'm really calculated about character behavior and dialogue.

I'm very lucky to work at bitly, with a data set that allows us to explore human social behavior at the scale of human social behavior.