Quotes About Behavior

Kids are really cruel.

People interest me a lot: why we are kind, why we are cruel, how we learn the difference, what makes us act in ways contrary to those we've been socialized with.

I think people throw the term 'sociopath' around a lot without knowing what it means - but people who don't understand that what they're doing is mean and wrong and cruel, they need to be made to understand that.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

You know, we've got to be able to understand that in order to curb their behavior, we've got to be accountable as parents in how we raise our children.

It is important to sensitise children about animal behaviour as it will help develop a healthy curiosity towards nature.

I don't curse in front of my daughter. Well, sometimes.

I'm trying to cut down my cursing.

I hardly use cuss words.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Food became my coping mechanism and I've never been able to break that cycle.

Business cycles in emerging markets behave differently from developed markets.

It can be actually quite cynical to go, 'Isn't it nice to be nice to people?'

It's a universal experience to be compulsively doing something that's damaging your life.

I've never danced while driving, nor put on makeup.

Every type of ring behavior we have seen around Jupiter, Uranus, or Neptune can be found in orbit around Saturn. And Saturn's ring system offers the greatest promise of understanding processes in operation within all disk systems, not just those found around planets.

There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither "good" nor "bad." They don't hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds.

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to do some of the stuff that I would want to be doing in a way that's more comfortable and doesn't break my internal rules. It expands the realm of possibility.

If you watch a fly on, say, a coffee table, you'll see that they're rubbing their little legs together to groom themselves; they're actually quite clean creatures.

I was expected to sit at the table, learn how to eat properly.

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD because I was making sounds. I was far from being an ADD child. I was actually quite quiet and well-behaved. But I used to drum on things.

If your kids see what you eat, they will probably eat it, too. I'm not going to use the old-school policy of what my mother did and say to my kids, 'Well, if you are hungry enough, you will eat what I put on the table!' I think my kids have an understanding that if they see what their parents do, they should follow, too.