Quotes About Behavior

One of the problems with AIs grown from personality seeds is that sometimes they're just as reactive and weird as any human.

We eat our mates if we can catch them. Everybody's got some evolutionary baggage that winds up maladaptive in a sophont setting.

When all else failed, her grandmother Mary would have said, good manners never deserted one.

It's not about how much you know. It's about what you consistently do. It's not about taking notes; it's about taking action.

He said he judged people by their characters. I said was that always a quite good way of judging, as people's characters get so different at times, as it depends so much what happens to them.

I don't mind his temper, or anybody's temper," I said, piling breakfast plates on a tray, "when I've done anything to provoke it, but I don't see why people should be unpleasant to everybody else just because they happen to feel moody or tired or upset.

The children either become like their parents or else they flee in the opposite direction.

She never knew from one moment to the next how he was going to behave toward her and therefore she constantly had to adjust her balance. It was exhausting.

Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

Creativity is no excuse for obnoxious behavior

Carelessness, when it's continual, is as bad as intentional jerkiness.

I ragazzi apprendono come comportarsi dalle persone con cui vivono. [...]

Ever notice how the more depraved a man is, the more he tries to ruin other people's fun?

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Shame could wrench just as fear did. Thinking how other men would have behaved in his place was the most searching form of humiliation that he knew; and he knew a good many.

In despair, she gave up on coercion and tried to manipulate him psychologically. When he behaved badly, she turned her back to him and began walking out of the room. The threat of abandonment made him panic. He stopped whatever he was doing and ran after Stephanie for a hug and reassurance. Nim learned to sign "sorry," and did so often.

The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.

No matter how out of the ordinary demonic possession was, it was still somehow a smoker's lung cancer, a drunk's pancreatitis, a philanderer's STI - a thing she had brought upon herself by not behaving properly.

The birds do not like this camera," Sveinsson said. "So they fly over it and shit on it.

and handjobs on crows.

Wood storks cool off by defecating on their own legs. (In

so Durrant stroked the area around his cloaca

Patty Flood and her good mood were starting to get on my nerves. Her mood was so good it was almost a physical thing, a monkey on a leash that she let leap all over the furniture, delighting only its owner.

Blame is a compulsive behavior, the emotional version of obsessive hand washing, until all you can do is hold your palms out till your hands are full of it, and rub, and rub, and accomplish nothing at all.