Quotes About Behavior

I am used to Suge's behavior, most of our relationship was under the shadow of him being in and out of prison and always being in trouble.

The magistrate who originally sentenced Eric Cantona to prison said that millions of young people saw him as a role model and tried to copy his behaviour. I wonder if this is true.

I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.

Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there.

There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.

The ability of businesses to monitor our behavior is already a fact of life, and it isn't going away. Of course we must protect our privacy rights. But if we're smart, we'll also use the data that is being collected to improve our own lives.

Fame... it's been a challenge, let's put it that way. It's a privilege and a responsibility, and I'm not sure I carried the responsibility well at times, which is embarrassing. And I've had to look and be disappointed in myself occasionally for how I behaved in some circumstances.

Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly.

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

I've run into women who can be highly problematic, detrimental, and mean, just like I've seen that in men.

I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.

We so often tend to think our democracies are ruled by procedures and laws, but they are also governed by implicit rules and assumptions and one of them is the ability to feel shame - that you can be shamed.

There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.

For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Each of us has a network of emotional and logical associations that is unique to us. Activate one mode of the association, and you activate a predictable pattern of behavior. A situation isn't just the external events that take place; it is how each individual processes those events and integrates them into her thoughts and feelings.

I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do.

Procrastination is in my genetic code.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.

I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.