Behavior is mutable. It changes from place to place. It's like accents, dialect - it varies from one area to another. But there are universal truths about what it means to be a human being. All the other stuff is like appliquéing. Learning that was interesting to me and probably useful for becoming an actor.

— Julianne Moore

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

But some actors I have met possess intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

— Ron Silver

By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.

— Naveen Jain

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car, so everybody can see the president.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed our banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

— Eliot Spitzer

Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.

— Travis Bradberry

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

— Saskya Pandita

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

— Marshall McLuhan

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

— Elizabeth Janeway