Quotes About Behavior

I'm a pleaser. That's my character.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company.

Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.

I've always been interested in why do people behave in certain ways which are crazy from a normal point of view.

One of my pleasures is observing people's behavior and pointing out the inconsistencies that we all sort of have at the center of our lives.

What I have found that my comedy is doing - and what really drives me - is to sort of bring women together through pointing out why we act so crazy.

I've managed to completely reeducate myself into making eating secondary. I used to eat all the time because the food was there. Now I feel like a kid in school who is gaining points for behaving. And I love myself for it.

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

I don't understand the rewarding of behavior that is less than classy. I don't get it.

You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

A company's ethical behavior is ultimately triggered by some sense of caring. And care is a sense of closeness to someone or something. A company must bring value to whom or what it is close to.

There is clothing that is improper for a Christian woman.

I really wasn't a class clown.

There's a thing that happens to Midwesterners - we spend a lot of time talking about having a different set of rules about manners. I don't know about ethics, but certainly about manners, what you would say and what you wouldn't say. And that is not very East coast.

I can't stand cocky, rude people.

Sometimes I was a little bit - not cocky, but not so nice, you know?

If someone can't behave with their colleagues and can't be part of the culture, it doesn't matter how good they are at what they do; they have to be asked to leave.