Quotes About Behavior

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.

People cannot change their tidying habits without first changing their way of thinking.

For me, filmmaking is not about making statements but about exposing human behavior so people are eager enough to start thinking on their own and make their own assumptions.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

The chief problem with the individual investor: He or she typically buys when the market is high and thinks it's going to go up, and sells when the market is low and thinks it's going to go down.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

Everyone thinks I'm a nice guy, which is not a bad way to be perceived.

There was a very obnoxious phase for Axl Rose. I'm sure if I had experienced as much success as he had, I would probably be a third as obnoxious. I'd probably be obnoxious, too. But not that much.

The difficult part was getting the people to change their habits so that they behaved more like first world citizens, not like third world citizens spitting and littering all over the place.

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated.

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.

I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.

The expectation in the Obama Administration, or at least the hope, is that a nuclear deal with the West could ultimately moderate Iranian behavior by helping to integrate the country more thoroughly into the international system. Will this happen? It's impossible to predict, of course. We will only know if we get there.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

I never thought a role model should be negative.

Thought is the parent of the deed.