Quotes About Behavior

Rare rages render a man frightening. Common ones render him ridiculous.

Jezal had often observed that the ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company. Having lost the high ground already, they scramble eagerly for the position of likable idiot, stay out of arguments they will only lose, and hence be everyone's friend,

You can't change the fact the world's full of arseholes. You can only change how you deal with them.

You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living.

The ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company.

Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior.

Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behaviour.

He's still young enough to think that rudeness wins respect.

Jezal had often observed that the ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company. Having lost the high ground already they scramble eagerly for the position of likeable idiot, stay out of arguments they will only lose, and can hence be everyone's friend.

But there's so much to feel sorry for in the world. Can't waste too much on folk who act like pricks.

Magic is the art and science of forcing things to behave in ways that are not in their nature.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be.

Jezal had often observed that the ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated." Gustave Le Bon

Why do big mouths and little brains so often go together?

But being an arsehole is crime and punishment both.

It's what you give out that makes a man, not what you get back.

Most of us tend to be truthful until we are punished for it.

Stand in the horse's hooves. Study his history. Understand why he is the way he is, and why he acts the way he does. He's a prey animal. You mean like a rabbit?? Pretty much, yeah. But he weighs eleven hundred pounds!! Yep.

We are creatures of habit. We think somewhere between 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts in one day,1 and 90 percent of those thoughts are exactly the same ones we had the day before.

That's why I called my last book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, because that's the greatest habit we have to break—thinking, feeling, and behaving in the same way that reinforces the unconscious programs that reflect our personalities and our personal realities.

You must become conscious of the unconscious behaviors you've been choosing to demonstrate that have led to the same experiences, and then you must make new choices, take new actions, and create new experiences.

Emotions are the chemical consequences (or feedback) of past experiences.

When you string a succession of thoughts and feelings together so that they ultimately become habituated or automatic, they form an attitude.