Quotes About Behavior

They were addicts, and addicts of any kind were very reliable customers.

Being simultaneously indifferent and insatiable is what narcissists do. It's the reason narcissists make excellent innovators. They don't stop, and they don't yield to logic or compassion.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Character is the result of two things, mental attitude, and the way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we do that make us what we are. By

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Roberto the whole time with an attitude

O que se passava, afinal, no mundo dos adultos, na cabeça de pessoas extremamente racionais, em seus corpos carregados de saber? O que os reduzia a animais dentre os menos confiáveis, piores que os répteis?

Una donna può facilmente uccidere per strada, in mezzo alla folla, lo può fare più facilmente di un uomo. La sua violenza sembra un gioco, una parodia, un uso improprio e un po' ridicolo della determinazione maschile a fare il male.

men can be pigs, but also the opposite. what is the opposite of a pig?

The unity of a nation consists mainly in its being able to act, when necessary, like a single paranoiac.

Someone whose only reason for not acting in an antisocial way was that they were scared of getting in trouble with God . . . where did you even start with such a person?

Of course, you couldn't have a party without alcohol; I understood this now. I understood the reason. The reason was that people were intolerable.

There are four kinds of people to avoid in the world: the assholes, the asswipes, the ass-kissers, and those that just will shit all over you.

personal privacy. That debate, a quaint twentieth-century one, is just ignorant background noise: the right to privacy is gone, lost already, or at least so compromised it's really worthless. No, the real present and future threat is manipulation, the inculcation of prescribed attitudes and modes of behavior into an unwitting citizenry, the unseen shift by the state from monitoring to control, the last chapter of the long tale of democracy, free will deformed into willing compliance.

A rationalization a day keeps your conscience at bay.

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

You become what you do most of the time.

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

A]voidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioural disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships.