Quotes About Behavior

He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.

Everything man is and does is modified by learning and is therefore malleable. But once learned, these behavior patterns, these habitual responses, these ways of interacting gradually sink below the surface of the mind and, like the admiral of a submerged submarine fleet, control from the depths. The hidden controls are usually experienced as though they were innate simply because they are not only ubiquitous but habitual as well.

To increase density in a rat population and maintain healthy specimens, put them in boxes so they can't see each other, clean their cages, and give them enough to eat. You can pile the boxes up as many stories as you wish. Unfortunately, caged animals become stupid, which is a very heavy price to pay for a super filing system!

The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.

We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (a fear of God).

If we define technology as a modification of the environment, then we must recognize the complementary principle of technique: how that modification is used in performance. New objects change behavior, but not always as inventors and manufacturers imagine. And changes in behavior of people, as of bears and dogs, inspire new hardware, which in turn engenders more innovations.4

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

State Senator Kemble made a speech opposing any enlargement of the NY&H's capital. When the news of impending scarcity hit Wall Street, the price of Harlem stock rose. At the top of the market, Kemble's broker sold short. Kemble then pushed a bill through the legislature enlarging Harlem's capital, and the price plummeted. As these were early days, and such behavior was still considered inappropriate, Kemble was expelled from the Senate.

I noticed that in advances as well as declines, stock prices were apt to show certain habits, so to speak. There was no end of parallel cases and these made precedents to guide me.

Whatever happens in the stock market to-day has happened before and will happen again.

Experience has taught me that the way a market behaves is an excellent guide for an operator to follow. It is like taking a patient's temperature and pulse or noting the colour of the eye-balls and the coating of the tongue.

I never buy a stock even in a bull market, if it doesn't act as it ought to act in that kind of market.

It is a very old thing, this of noting the behavior of a stock and studying its past performances.

The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

mi superyó dice que si cometo esa estupidez se mudará a otra mente)

A personal attack outlines as a moral corruption and even shows behavioural violation and crime.

Abuse is the filth of thought, not of the tongue since the tongue is just a means of expression; it depends on you; how you express, in a pleasant way or unpleasant.

An unnatural action holds unnatural reaction; indeed, it affirms and displays a penalty, not the immunity.

Animals and birds enjoy just one sex-attitude within its instinct. Conversely, it is only a human, who discovered above nature, sex postures in an awkward way. Applause, please.