Quotes About Behavior

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

I really think that Muslim people should stop raising their boys and girls that way. They instill a macho culture right from the start of childhood. And if you have never learned to treat girls and women respectfully, you will never be able to act differently later on than the men in your culture, and in your family. That's fact.

There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

Women are really emotional creatures, and men are kind of closed in terms of emotions. I think women are just a lot more out there.

I think, so many times in society, women are expected to behave a certain way. You are raised to say 'sorry' and 'excuse me', and get out of the way.

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

Having a female point of view in the room - when you get into a discussion about behavior - who would say what and how they would interact with one another. In certain situations, women are going to have a different opinion on that than men. It made for a really balanced conversation in the room.

I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

This is a generalization, but I think women's brains are more accessible to ideas and differences. And they can accept stuff that's weirder. I think there are enough intelligent men out there who get it, but women will watch behavior that's different and process it better. In general, women are less threatened by their emotions.

You can't change somebody's character, but you can change the way a person presents themselves.

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

Lots of people say we should fly less, heat less, and put on a sweater. But it's not going to happen. People are happy to say that for other people, but not themselves.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category.

The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.