Quotes About Behavior

I used to have a short temper. I still have one and when I lose it, it's bad. I think it comes from what you see when you're young. Sometimes it builds from being scared as well. Once you lose it once, you find comfort in losing your temper. It becomes embedded in you.

I can look at a photo and tell you about your child's temperament and personality. All that scans in seconds.

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.

My dad, his temperament is a little worse than mine, at times.

My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.

An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.

I guess this place is where your intellect changes. I guess it's no behavior-modification place. but a history tutor said Harvard used to be . . . worried as much about the students' morality, their character, as . . . exams.

judge people by what they do and not what they say they will do.

The best dog training was based on the reward system. You did not punish a dog for doing wrong, you rewarded the dog for doing right. The dog did something you wanted, you reinforced the behavior with a reward - pet'm, tell'm they're a good dog, let'm play with a toy. The standard reward for a K-9 working dog was a hard plastic ball with a hole drilled through it where Leland liked to smear a little peanut butter.

The best dog training was based on the reward system. You did not punish a dog for doing wrong, you rewarded the dog for doing right. The dog did something you wanted, you reinforced the behavior with a reward—pet'm, tell'm they're a good dog, let'm play with a toy.

This lack of accurate, trustworthy information about the true cost of any given policy, product, service, or behavior is paralyzing all action.

terrible twos

His ego was just too big, almost as if he were genetically predisposed to be an ass.

This was also his MO. Excuses for his behavior so he wouldn't have to accept what he'd done.

We can't always control the outcomes, but we can control what we do.

consequences are because of the actions a person chose to take

Civilizirani ljudi neugodniji su od divljaka zato Å¡to znaju da mogu biti nepristojni, a da im zbog toga netko ne raspolovi glavu.

los hombres civilizados son más descorteses que los salvajes, pues saben que por lo general pueden ser maleducados sin que nadie les abra la cabeza. Se