Quotes About Behavior

It's so weird how people like hamsters so much better than squirrels," Veblen added, knowing that hamsters were hindgut fermenters and coprophagists, whereas squirrels were nothing of the sort.

See? You're using the stoic glacier method." "Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?" "It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.

You have to stop doing, you know, human stuff," I called. "It is seriously creepy coming from a wolf.

the benefits that subsequent stages of sleep would bring him, such as an increase in alertness, improved motor skills, a boost to his immune system, regulation of his appetite, release of tension, restoration of energy, and a stabilizing effect on his behavior and mood.

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

Most people have opinions about how others should behave ... I just have high standards for who I intend to be no matter how they're behaving!

Yet practice theory tells us that behaviour rarely changes simply as a result of challenges to ideas, values and attitudes. So

Hadrian controlled the empire in a way which had no precedent. What he did, at first perhaps by instinct, but later almost certainly as a calculated and largely successful policy, was to take the established dynamics of imperial rule and aristocratic behaviour and expand them beyond anything that had been seen before.

She had spells of manic loquaciousness, followed by days of silence.

If you can't figure out something... don't watch what you think, watch what you do.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

The Aristotelian and Thomist mind works: it doesn't just wait around to recover something hidden or something lost. This includes the laws governing nature as understood by science and the laws that govern our own behavior in terms of morality and ethics.

with the new economic order, a new moral perspective was taking shape. The Enlightenment term for it was "politeness.

The job of ethics, Aristotle asserts, "is not that we may know what virtue is, but that we may become virtuous," especially in our daily dealings with others.

Men are guided instead by custom, and the personal authority

Nurture, not nature, explained human behavior and institutions.

Society acts as a mirror to our inner self, by reflecting back to us the reactions of others, and becomes our guide to what is good and evil in the world.

the zoologist Konrad Lorenz, whose studies of animal behavior (the best known is On Aggression) stressed Haeckel's notion that animal and habitat—including man and his environment—form a single unit

Locke's Two Treatises of Government revealed that the political universe is run the same way, through natural laws that guide men's behavior in the same sure way that they guide the movement of the planets.

John Locke said that the place to start the study of how men behave was Aristotle.3 With a handful of exceptions, the Enlightenment followed his advice.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

I do not know, but they are very rough. I suppose they would do almost anything for money. They smell strongly of liquor." Slowly

All of this vain heartbreak that we cling to as important or tragic would one day be revealed - by TV scientists - for what it is: just behavior.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.