Quotes About Behavior

Ever trying to get us to behave, he banned all alcohol from the green room and was exasperated one evening when, ten minutes before the show, we all had to be extracted from the pub next door.

Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.

Stockholm syndrome, wherein people held in captivity begin to empathize and identify with their captors as a way of adapting to their situation. It is too incongruous to be in a relationship with someone whose thinking and behavior are disturbing. Something has to line up, so women accept the pathological thinking and behavior to eliminate the disturbance they feel.

Breaking bad habits is like training a dog, you got to be consistent.

Fear-based messaging will never lead to a long-term effective strategy because it is not the way we are wired.

You can change your brain for the better or worse through behaviors and even ways of thinking. Bad habits have neural maps that reinforce those bad habits.

Those who think themselves to be civilized are not always particularly intelligent, or rational.

Elegance is like manners," he used to say. "You can't be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it's another matter.

So she becomes, like all females deprived of a mate, predatory and exacting.

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

His controlled composure was making Maddox feel edgy. He could be one of those people who seemed perfectly calm but then randomly snapped.

The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.

If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we'd have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because they're erratic. People do crazy things that don't make sense.

Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.

If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave.

The only trouble with being female in Pakistan is that it allows for two possible modes of behaviour--either you can be sweet and simple, or you can be cold and proud.

For the story that shapes a child's universe also shapes the child—and by the child, the man thereafter. The memory of a burning fairy tale can govern behavior as truly as remembered fire will caution against fire forever. —WALTER WANGERIN

One reason television is such a perilous medium is that even infants less than two years old imitate what they see on the screen, yet what appears there is determined by what happens to appeal or to sell rather than by what behavior helped individuals in a particular past environment to survive or prosper.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Swearing can be fun, but doing it all the time causes a lot of problems

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.