Quotes About Behavior

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

I don't get on the phone and prank people and things like that on the phone with people, no.

It's not like I grew up playing pranks on people, and I was not that girl in school.

I just don't like when you preach one thing and do something else.

A lot of people preach and talk, but I think the only way to preach is to actually do things.

Habits are learned. And children learn their habits by watching what we do, not by listening to what we say. So we have to stop talking and teaching and preaching and just go do.

Of course, it's human nature for people, when they meet me to have some preconceptions about how I look, how I sing, how I behave. I can understand that. And I've realized you can't do anything about human nature except to ignore it.

I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

I think to perfectly understand somebody is to predict their next move.

Thinking things like, 'I will never get hired for this job,' or 'Nobody ever listens to me,' can alter your behavior in a way that makes those predictions come true.

It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.

People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Humans are animals of habit - they convince themselves they can't change. And that premise is wrong.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

Play seems to be one of the first activities inhibited by the presence of an observer until a group becomes well habituated. For this reason, I consider it more common than previously thought.

Examining your behavior on social media could give you insight into your own personality as well as how others perceive you. You may think you're presenting yourself in a certain light, only to discover other people view your behavior completely different.

There is a certain kind of sobering, civilizing effect that being president imposes on people. There is a certain kind of dignity with which you comport yourself. As an observer of the presidency, I have to wonder if Trump would follow that pattern.

No one can change the definition of what behavior is presidential because that definition fundamentally depends on what our form of government requires, not on what one individual prefers.

People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.

And certainly don't get caught by the press having too much to drink, you now, that sort of thing.

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.