Quotes About Behavior

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry.

I do let the kids play on devices when we eat out - it's better than being thrown out of a restaurant.

There are two kinds of people in crisis situations - those who fight and those who freeze. I'm a freezer, and that's just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I've had thrown for me.

Everyone has a temper, but in Sweden, no one throws a racquet or screams. We show more manners and common sense. This is a game, not war.

A random rumor that did a rounds about me was that I am an actor who throws tantrums on the sets and likes to be treated like a King. Which is false.

While you can use muscle-memory to unconsciously move your thumb to open an app without thinking, it's actually impossible to type on a keyboard unconsciously.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.

I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human.

The lesson for businesses is you are dealing with real people. Those are your customers, those are your employees, those are your bosses, and the better you understand how real people tick, the more successfully you will be able to accomplish your goals.

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

I'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.

The mechanisms inside me tick like a criminal. My mind works like theirs, and criminals can smell it when they're around me - but I choose not to use it in a bad way. I just choose to do good things.

Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers have 'skin in the game,' and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance.

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.

I would say about 90 per cent of drunken idiots in comedy clubs wear ties, particularly in London where I work most of the time.

Most predatory animals, if you give them an inch they just go with it. Any animal - a tiger, a shark, anything - you can't act like something that is afraid of it and that's where all their predatory instincts come in.

Apparently, I used to bite, scratch and growl at people when I was young, so my parents named me 'Tiger.'

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

The choice is always before you: to respond consciously to the present; or to react compulsively to it. There is a vast difference between the two. And it can make the world of a difference.