Quotes About Behavior

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely linked to ADHD; behavioral problems; and stunted social, cognitive, and creative development.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

The double standard means men can run around and women cannot. I think I'm up to testing that.

The amount of resources we put in are disparate. We put billions of dollars into fuel-efficient technologies. How much are we putting into energy behavior change in a credible, systematic, testing way?

I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

Sometimes you get yourselves in situations where you don't realize people are actually testing you. People are actually provoking you.

Check your testosterone levels. Every study on evolutionary psychology has correlated testosterone levels with dominance.

In the present crisis of masculinity we do not need, as some feminists are saying, less masculine power. We need more. But we need more of the mature masculine. We need more Man psychology. We need to develop a sense of calmness about masculine power so we don't have to act out dominating, disempowering behavior toward others.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

Sooner or later, animals will let loose a human trait, as men sometimes behave like a beast.

But most of us, for most of our lives, do not try to determine the causes of things. Rather, most of the time we try to get by; to eat, sleep, and of course, to reproduce. In other words, we are mainly concerned with surviving, getting along in a complex and changing world, in short, with adapting rather than with interference.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

Genetic research shows that the medical model is all wrong when it comes to psychological problems.

Everyone misbehaves,' said Eddie. 'That's nature. Everyone gets away with as much as they can get away with. And the more they can get away with, the more they will.

He does not identify the self with the physical body or attach much importance to the possessions of that body. He feeds it, dresses it, cares for it and regulates its behavior. In due course he leaves it. One of the powers conferred by entry into the fourth room is the capacity to die at will.

Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

What a waste to attempt to change behavior without truly understanding the driving needs that cause such behavior!