Quotes About Behavior

Naturally, Jessie giggled again. "She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of, and what you do.

Lottie had always found, while in her own nursery at home, kicking and screaming would always be quieted by any means she insisted upon. Poor plump Miss. Amelia was trying first one method, then another. Poor darling! she said one moment; I know you haven't any mamma, poor- Then in quite another tone: If you don't stop, Lottie, I will shake you. Poor little angel! There-there! You wicked, bad, detestable child, I will smack you! I will!

He's been spoiled 'til salt won't save him.

Não sabia quão abomináveis eram as pessoas que ficavam doentes e nervosas, e não sabiam que podiam controlar o seu mau gênio, sem precisar deixar os outros em volta doentes e nervosos também.

by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.

4. If you do not give your chickens enough space, light, air, and walking-around room, they will eat one another.

Elizabeth walked past just as Mrs. Ferguson, pulling down her wide-brimmed hat, announced that teenagers today were the most inconsiderate creatures she had ever seen. 'I'm afraid I have to agree with you,' Elizabeth had heard her twin say mournfully, clearly distinguishing herself from the inconsiderate teenagers milling all around them.

Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency?

The test of a man isn't what you think he'll do. It's what he actually does.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me. Such is the essence of self-control.

But the test of a man isn't what you think he'll do. It's what he actually does.

We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences - the tracks of the beast in its forest. Look behind our words and you see the broad sweep of social behavior that no historian has ever touched.

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. —Darwi Odrade

How sure it is, Leto thought, that a weapon can lock a person into a predictable pattern of behavior.

He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity – as though it were another mask.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Individual human experience is not the overriding control factor in human behavior. The cellular social pattern dominates.

Maturity imposes its own behavior. One of our lessons—make those imperatives available to consciousness. Modify instincts.

The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

Behavioral engineering in all of its manifestations always degenerates into merciless manipulation. It reduces all (manipulators and manipulated alike) to a deadly mass effect. The central assumption, that manipulation of individual personalities can achieve uniform behavioral responses, has been exposed as a lie by many species but never with more telling effect than by the Gowachin on Dosadi. — The Dosadi Papers, BuSab reference

Here, they showed us the Walden Fallacy in ultimate foolishness, explaining: Given any species which reproduces by genetic mingling such that every individual is a unique specimen, all attempts to impose a decision matrix based on assumed uniform behavior will prove lethal. — The Dosadi Papers, BuSab reference

And, I should add, except when you see it at the dinner table.

A menudo es mejor observar lo que hace la gente e ignorar lo que dice. Las discordancias entre el comportamiento y las palabras son extremadamente reveladoras. La acción habla por sí misma.