Quotes About Behavior

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

Understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.

Everyone in Life does Exactly what they Know How to Do Given the Conditions of their Lives

If you rise in life, you have to behave in a certain way. You can go to a strip club if you're a beer-swilling sand shoveler, but if you're the Bishop of Boston, you shouldn't go.

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Do not be wise in words — be wise in deeds.

Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.

Why does she always have the moral high ground, what is it about women, always behaving so well and thinking of things we should have thought of first and shaming us?

Simulmatics died. The fantasy of predicting human behavior by way of machines did not. Instead, it took new forms, forms that depended on forgetting that Simulmatics had ever existed.

Well, what ever he calls it," said Marlon's granny, "he looks like an idiot with that stupid great thing stuck in his mouth all the time.

Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for approval than with your need for support. No matter what their response, you need to be firm and hold your ground. At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

It's too easy to sell or not sell fifty widgets this week, or to sign or fail to sign the contract with your supplier. It's much more difficult to behave and act at all times in a disciplined, systematic way. But this is what you must do in order to achieve what you're capable of.

Stop Trying to Control the Outcome Focus on Your Behavior and Actions Instead

What you can control is behavior and activity, what you cannot control is the result of this behavior and activity.

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

How would the person I'd like to be, do the things I'm about to do?

Leopards, that is ordinary forest leopards, do not like rain and invariably seek shelter, but the man eater was not an ordinary leopard, and there was no knowing what his likes or dislikes were, or what he might or might not do.