Quotes About Behavior

The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.

men's actions are the best guides to their thoughts

Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

And amongst those who are counted the civilized part of mankind

Meanwhile, Quakers used outrageous behavior to draw more attention to their beliefs and provoke a response. A Quaker man walked into a Boston church holding a bottle in each hand, then smashed them to the floor; he shouted, "Thus will the Lord break all to pieces!" A Quaker woman stripped herself naked and paraded through the Newbury church during worship. Another Quaker woman paraded nude through the streets of Boston.

No doubt I do act in 'bad faith' when I deliberately avoid facing an honest decision and follow the conventional pattern of behavior in order to be spared the anxiety that comes when one is... thrown into seventy thousand fathoms.

Although data can make a compelling case for something, data rarely create the emotions needed to spur people into action

A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.

A free society's best defence against unethical behaviour modification is public disclosure and awareness.

Like I said, they can be pretty crazy, horses. Not as sensible as sheep.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems -- the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.

Once it is common, cooperation is evolutionarily stable. The problem is how it becomes common in the first place, because defection is also stable.

You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read.

At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c***!

The Open era had brought personalities into the game, and personality was generating media exposure, which was generating more money, which in turn guaranteed more media exposure - which in turn drove in even more money. Where money and publicity meet, there's always excitement, but good behavior is rarely a part of the mix. Manners are the operating rules of more stable systems.

Where money and publicity meet, there's always excitement, but good behavior is rarely a part of the mix. Manners are the operating rules of more stable systems. I got caught up in the rising excitement of pro tennis—in some ways, I was the personification of that excitement—and yes, my behavior got away from me. That's a big subject.

Children have never been good at listening to their parents, but they have never failed to imitate them.

People view their own behaviors as originating from amendable, situational constraints,but they view other people's behavior as originating from inherent, immutable personality traits.

The mammalian brain's functions include what researchers call the "four F's": fighting, feeding, feeling and ... reproductive behavior.