Quotes About Behavior

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

If the most deeply interconnected individuals can exemplify the behaviors that your official top brass sets out, then the rest of the organization will follow suit.

If Rob Ford decided he wanted to run for the Liberal Party in 2015, we'd say, 'No, sorry, the way you approach things, the way you govern, the way you behave is not suitable to the kind of Liberal team we want to build.'

I taught my girls to pick up their own suitcases. Pretty is as pretty does.

There's a lot of rudeness and sullen behavior and kids that are very entitled and spoiled, just buy me more stuff. I didn't want to raise kids like that.

To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.

I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior.

You can't have a belief system on Sunday and not live it the other six days.

When I look back at the church I grew up in, I realise that nothing about its behaviour was very Christian. It was just a social club on Sundays where people would meet up with their mates.

Sunk costs? We pay too much attention to them.

In order to institute action, it is not sufficient that the individual man have unachieved ends that he would like to fulfill. He must also expect that certain modes of behavior will enable him to attain his ends. A man may have a desire for sunshine, but if he realizes that he can do nothing to achieve it, he does not act on this desire.

It is not necessary to make your children hermits; you should make them gentlemen. That would be more than enough.

I'll teach you some good bad habits. You'll need 'em.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.

Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character.

The truest test of civilization is not the census, size of cities, or crops; but the kind of man the country turns out.

Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

We call it the moral sentiment. As we are, so we do; and as we do, so it is done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

A moment's reflection will show you that you play many roles in the course of a day . . . and that who you are from moment to moment changes. There is the angry you, and the kind you, the lazy you, the lustful you—hundreds of different you's. Gurdjieff points out that sometimes one "you" does something for which all the other "you's" must pay for years or possibly the rest of this life.