Quotes About Behavior

it seems to be intricately connected with the nature of human greed, the roots of our destructiveness, and the future consequences of our collective behavior. For the abductees, the encounters can be profoundly "enlightening" in the fullest sense.

If you see a bird "feeding" on a cattail spike, observe closely: Is it delving for caterpillars or their cocoons? Or is it depositing or retrieving a food cache?

I don't really understsand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs

The only time making a fist around the fork helps is when you want to stab someone because he's stealing your food. Now I know stabbing people is really rude, so I hold my fork in the grown-up way all the time, and I rely on discreet snarls to protect my dinner from predators.)

I can't look at a stranger's face and think, She's smiling just like Amy. When Amy smiles like that she's happy, so this person is probably happy, too. Instead, I watch and evaluate, with a slightly anxious feeling. It's as if I have to build a behavior database for every single person I meet in life. When I encounter someone for the first time, the slate is blank and I don't know what to expect.

Competence excuses strange behavior.

can certainly see someone's actions over a period of time, and I will come to care for that person in response to how he or she acts toward me.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.

What counts is not how scared you are or how brave you claim to be or even how calm you are. All that matters is what you do.

He showered those close to him with bread crumbs and fragments as he spoke. Thorn had never learned the finer points of eating politely—such as keeping one's mouth shut while doing so.

Even was zelfs heer Anton van zijn protocollaire à propos gebracht.

Sounds serious," he said. "Huffing and sighing and eye rolling, you say? I've never heard of a teenage girl behaving like that.

When Halt was in a bad mood, he invariably paid careful attention to his grammar.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

Poor alcoholics were bums; rich alcoholics were eccentric.

It takes time for the habit of people to wear off of you

We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways—the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

there is no underlying reality to the world. "Reality," in the everyday sense, is not a good way to think about the behavior of the fundamental particles that make up the universe; yet at the same time those particles seem to be inseparably connected into some invisible whole, each aware of what happens to the others.

Applications of NLP

Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.

There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.

We now had three girls and one testosterone-pumped guy bird that spent every walking minute doing of of three things: pursuing sex, having sex or crowing boastfully about the sex he had just scored. Jenny observed that roosters are what men would be if left to their own devices, with no social conventions to rein in their baser instincts, and I couldn't disagree. I had to admit, I kind of admired the lucky bastard.

You know, people think mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit. It's the stuff we can understand. It's cats that are complicated. I mean, what is it in those little molecules and stuff that make one cat behave differently than another, or that make a cat? And how do you define a cat? I have no idea.

But, Mrs Van Hoosier, if I may make so bold-' 'You may not,' She inserted another cake into her mouth and chewed it so angrily I all but felt sorry for it. When it was finally dead she turned and fixed me a look, as though she were a scientist and I some kind of bug she was microscoping.