Quotes About Behavior

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

My mom and I have the exact same mannerisms - the way we talk and the gestures that we made.

I am very scared of Salman and intimidated by him. My talkative behaviour disappears and I am a very different person when Salman is in front of me.

I don't know that there's more bullying or whether it's just more talked about. It seems to me that possibly that there's been a lot of bullying all the time, but at the moment, it's something that people are talking about.

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

I was a talker back in elementary school. I used to get A's and B's in everything, but I got an F in conduct.

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Joe Gallager's like a petulant child sometimes. In press conferences, for instance, when we're talking, he's rolling his eyes like a schoolgirl, pretending he's not listening. It's disrespectful and I don't like that.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.

Everyone talks about how the anonymity of the Internet allows people to behave badly, but I think it's the other way around, that the anonymity removes the 'self' from the people we're talking to online. Other people lose their humanity in our eyes. The system is set up to dehumanize.

If you're in a meeting and a man talks loudly over you, rather than copying that behaviour and normalising it, what you could do is say 'Can everybody stop doing this and instead put up a hand when we talk?'

Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.

All of my guy friends are pretty civil and tame.

When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.

It's human nature: for most investors, the pain of stocks going down is more tangible than the joy of when they go up. The common impulse is to do something - anything - to minimise the pain.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that.

What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.

Be encouraged by the teaching of Thomas Aquinas that "habit overcomes habit.

It's more like how some people can't help but bring out the not necessarily righteous parts of your personality. Like how you meet someone and instantly know they're a full-time professional victim, and no matter how hard you try, something takes over and you can't help needling them.

Yeah, but these are crazy pills. Supposed to keep me from running amok or something." "How are they working out?" "Great. I just saunter amok these days.