Quotes About Behavior

Conflict comes from a person's own actions, not what someone else does to them.

Zimbabweans, I've come to believe, we are very passive-aggressive people. We don't like conflict; we don't like confrontation, so we find all sorts of ways of avoiding that conflict and confrontation. We are not allowed to talk about bad things that go on in families.

I've never been a fan of sociopaths who have no conscience. That scares me because they're capable of anything.

I'd say I have no conscience, to a certain extent.

Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.

Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

I think words have consequences, and I think actions have consequences.

There has to be measures for players to know the consequences for their actions.

Police departments are always a reflection of the society that they serve. Is there such a thing as 'police culture?' Absolutely. Is that culture isolated form the surrounding society? Absolutely not.

The problems of reporting a bully - or, if you are a bully, of becoming less of one - become much more intractable, because your reputation surrounds you, and behavioral patterns are harder to escape.

Before being humans with morals, people are mostly animals, fighting for domination and survival.

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.

I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

It's ironic - people used to want to suspend me and talk about how bad my behaviour was, but now they like it when I shout and scream.

When I step out of my front door, I have to paint on a bright, big smile to make sure people treat me kindly rather than with suspicion, or assume that I'm going to be aggressive.