Quotes About Behavior

Except for shooting folks in the face and cutting off ears, the lanky killer had impeccable manners.

It wasn't who a person believed himself to be or what he pretended he would do in a given situation. It was what he did when he got there that defined him.

W]e do not always practice what we preach (which, of course, suggests that something is wrong with what we preach).

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

The months since their marriage had demonstrated that the couple share a common character flaw – they both have a tendency to cascade downwards from their peaks of generous self-confidence into miserable moments of self-pitying victimhood. They see the world as hostile and start behaving in self-destructive ways that make that hostility come to pass.

Some people carry their life in a glass of water and splash it on everyone they meet.

Broke the ice with, "Don't you think it curious that men shake hands with the same hand they use to wipe their arses?

A child should always say what's trueAnd speak when he is spoken to,And behave mannerly at table;At least as far as he is able.

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

I always thought Obama was "presidential." He treated the office of the presidency with respect. I rarely saw him in the Oval Office with a coat and tie, and he always conducted himself with dignity. He was a man of personal integrity, and in his personal behavior - at least to the extent I could observe it - he was an excellent role model...I thought Obama was first-rate in both intellect and temperament." Page 300

The roots of workaholism are truly sown in narcissistic homes; 'I do, therefore I am

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Testosterone makes people cocky, egocentric, and narcissistic.

pain makes aggressive people more aggressive, while doing the opposite to unaggressive individuals.

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.

I've seen this play out over and over in my life: When emotion goes up, intelligence goes down.

When the power inherent in a position of authority is used to fortify that position, the institution's purpose is subverted. Behaviors are not aligned with the institution';s professed goals; rather they are skewed to preserve the rank, power, salaries, and security of rank-holders. -- Somebodies and Nobodies, by Robert W. Fuller

It doesn't take much to show love, but at some time or another in your, praise God, disastrous life you must have felt, honestly and simply, what love is and how love likes to behave.

That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting inevitable.

Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us, to keep us in the thrall of its warped values system.

You can't control other people's behaviour, but you can conrol your responses to it.

The last concept to be added to Bowen theory is that of societal regression. It notes that, periodically, as anxiety begins to run higher in society, regressed behavior can be noted on a massive scale. A hallmark of such an anxious period is the unwillingness of families or other institutions of society (such as the court system) to take responsibility when behavior breaks down.

Usually what people do in a relationship crisis is more of the same thing they have been doing, only more intensely and more anxiously.