Quotes About Behavior

If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

Things that price at $4.99 sell very differently than things that price at $5.

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

Fifty years ago or a hundred years ago, generally, most people would buy a house the way you buy a car. When you buy a car, do you think, 'I better buy this year rather than next year because car prices might go up?'

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

There are bad preppies and bad priests and bad humanitarians. Any group can have its bad apple.

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.

A child is born with a degree of primitive savagery and somebody must discipline it out of him. This Is where the government of the home comes in.

Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.

The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.