Quotes About Behavior

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.

Tercero: debes comprender que esa «programación» te ha sido impuesta por personas inseguras que, cuando aún eras muy joven e impresionable, te enseñaron, con su comportamiento

These people don't bring delinquency with them; they become delinquent when they're faced with certain situations here.

Every child has a god in him. Our attempts to mold the child will turn the god into a devil. Children come to my school, little devils, hating the world, destructive, unmannerly, lying, thieving, bad-tempered. In six months they are happy, healthy children who do no evil.

Bob Neuwirth: In his depravity, Lou was dignified. Dignified depravity.

There are comforts in knowing the boundaries of the place you live. Everyone here seems to behave like things are endless.

In a pit of mud, everyone looks like everyone else. It is the clean who are distinct. In a mob, everyone behaves like everyone else. It is the friend who is distinct.

Virtue humanizes and spiritualizes what is part animal in us. Vice brutalizes what is human and spiritual in us.

I am saying rather that men did not behave as men are wont to do, in part because of the essential change in political bodies, where everyone senses that protection at all costs, rather than the good and bloody battle, is the rule of the day. As soon as someone says, "You want 200,000 people to die," the chance for a discussion is over, because the rejoinder, "You are speaking like a coward and an ass," is no longer possible.

A person's identity is not to be found in behavior...but in the capacity to keep a particular narrative going

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

He wasn't being deliberately offensive. It was just that offensive was his default mode.

It's easy enough to change your personality, to become evil. The trouble is, it stays with you. And it damages you.

figured it wasn't Davina. She drinks like a fish. Again, who drinks Coca-Cola at eight o'clock in the evening?

He could be a complete bastard when he wanted to be — which was most of the time, now I come to think about it.

It's the Culture, Stupid!" January 21, 2013 Anthony Marsella, Ph.D. — TRANSCEND Media Service A "Trickle Down" Analogy of the USA's "Culture of Violence" "It's the . . .

A cultural ecology of violence!

One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

Graham may have wanted integration, but instead, he promoted gradualism and provided absolution for racists hiding behind a Christianity attuned not only to Jesus but also focused on regulating behavior and black bodies.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

The identification of a population of olfactory sensory neurons innervating a single glomerulus that mediates robust avoidance to a naturally occurring odorant provides insight in the neural circuitry that underlies this innate behavior.

In London, people don't make eye contact; it's almost too provocative.

Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous.