Quotes About Behavior

Poro?nost je samo obrazac lošeg ponašanja, navika koje se razvija s vremenom. Dovoljno je riješiti se te navike.

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

Your five senses are collecting data from the outside world every moment of your life. You are literally being bombarded with stimuli at every instant. Over time, this enormous volume of sense impressions begins to assume a certain distinctive pattern within you. This pattern slowly shapes itself into behavioral tendencies. A cluster of tendencies hardens over time into what you call your personality, or what you claim to be your true nature.

what you consider to be "myself " is just an accumulation of habits, predispositions, and tendencies you have acquired over time without being conscious of the process.

Your karma is not in what is happening to you; your karma is in the way you respond to what is happening to you.

S]ociety has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.

Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns- where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.

Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns—where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.

For those she liked she did things; to those she didn't like she did other things.

When we say to someone, Oh you're behaving like an animal, it's actually a compliment rather than an insult. We need to work for a science of peace and build a culture of empathy, and emphasize the positive, pro-social side of the character of other animals and ourselves. It's truly who we and other animals are.

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Once is interesting. Twice is happenstance. Three times, it's a game. Patterns are things that happen that you really couldn't prove in court, but damn it, you know they happen!

four bases of violence: fear, frenzy, tantrum, and criminal.

By the time I wrote this book I had begun to finally figure out that: a) there was a direct relationship between my behavior and those attempts on my life: b) maybe my previous strategy of becoming better at violence instead of not pissing off people needed to be reviewed: c) that there were knowable 'rules' in different environments: d) you could learn them so as not to run afoul with point A.

you're way more likely to get killed for pissing off someone. And the fastest way to anger people is to break the local rules and—this is the important part—then be obnoxious about not apologizing or changing your behavior when called on it.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. —John Dryden, seventeenth-century English poet and dramatist

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant--the act of a tyrant.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

How cruel—to forbid people to want what they think is good for them. And yet that's just what you won't let them do when you get angry at their misbehavior. They're drawn toward what they think is good for them. —But it's not good for them. Then show them that. Prove it to them. Instead of losing your temper.

that to expect bad men not to do wrong is madness

To stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.