Quotes About Behavior

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

I had learned from my reading that you can do really awful things when you are bored, things that are bound to make you miserable. In fact, you do them in order to become miserable, so you won't have to be bored anymore.

An organization's values tell everyone how they will act inside the walls of the organization. You, as a leader, cannot tolerate any action that goes against those values.

Cognitive insight (knowing something) is not like emotional insight (feeling something). It has no psychodynamic effects. It does not affect the narcissist's behavior patterns, or his interpersonal interactions - the products of well entrenched and rigid defense mechanisms.

Romantic jealousy is a narcissistic defence. It reflects the narcissistic traits and behaviours of possessiveness;

There was no question that the captains who made a habit of testing the boundaries of the rules would never be revered by the public the way Derek Jeter was. But this theory suggested that calling their behavior thuggish was an oversimplification. These were aggressive acts that pushed the limits of what's acceptable, but they were also instrumental.

The study of history should be a mind-altering encounter that leaves one forever unable to consider the social world without asking questions about where a claim comes from, who's making it, and how time and place shape human behavior.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

There is something...more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

it is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.

It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease

Don't attitudenize.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

If you detect something mindless about American education, it's because the mind has been taken out of it. Only visible behavior counts.

The whole mechanism of guilt as a deterrent to right action is just as much a linguistic fault.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.