Quotes About Behavior

All the blackmailers and extortionists I've ever met have impeccable manners. - Julian Isherwood

Manners won't cost you a thing," Asa said. "But they may gain you plenty.

Well, maybe he was learning something about Southern manners. She

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

She is violent only when violence is acted upon her first. When shown kindness, she is kind. That is the way of animals and humans alike.

From our simplest habits to our most destructive behaviors, our actions are the direct results of our mental programming. Both psychologists and biblical scholars agree that it is almost impossible for individuals to behave inconsistently with what they believe about themselves. Your mind will naturally go in the direction of your most prevalent thoughts.

If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.

Foulk and friends suggest the toxic effect of rudeness - some actually call it a neurotoxin - lasts an entire week. It can spread like wildfire around a contained office, leading to general hostility, lower morale, poorer performance, and worse coffee. ... In fact, it's been shown that even when the rude behavior is mild at best, it impairs a person's basic ability to think. F You Very Much pages 23-24

much privilege leads to bad manners

It's like my entire conscious state has been reduced to this toxic blend of hope and uncertainty. I hate that I have to act cool and almost pretend I don't like him when in fact I do, because, God forbid, I might come across as desperate for affection or a little clingy, which everyone should know are perfectly natural human behaviors, after all. Ugh!

You have pretty fair evidence to go on if you suspect that polls in general are biased in one specific direction, the direction of the Literary Digest error. This bias is toward the person with more money, more education, more information and alertness, better appearance, more conventional behavior, and more settled habits than the average of the population he is chosen to represent.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

Sow a thought and reap an act; sow an act and reap a habit; sow a habit and reap a destiny." Everything starts within. Anger

If someone is nice to you but rude to the waiter, they are not a nice person.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Brota soupira et décida de ne pas se mêler de cette affaire. Quand les hommes se comportent comme des enfants, les femmes doivent se tenir à l'écart. —

Identity always precedes behavior. What you need is someone to come alongside you and help you remember who you are and to whom you belong.

In high summer males can be very common. They sit around on flowers drinking nectar. They prefer flowers with big sturdy heads such as thistles and natweeds and gangs of males can often be seen clustered together, reminiscent of a group of men propping up the bar in a pub.

The triad of methods used to achieve this remarkable increase in killing are desensitization, conditioning, and denial defense mechanisms.

learned in World War II that only 15 to 20 percent of the individual riflemen fired their weapons at an exposed enemy soldier.

90 percent reduction in violence among the boys who had television and video games removed

predicted a few years ago that there would be an increase in violent behavior by young females from their exposure to the bombardment of violent, female role models in the media.

What battles have in common is the human: the behavior of men struggling to reconcile their instinct of self-preservation, their sense of honor and the achievement of some aim over which other men are ready to kill them. The study of battle is therefore always a study of fear and usually of courage, usually also of faith and sometimes vision. —Sir Herbert Butterfield Man On His Past