Quotes About Behavior

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

Every time you respond in a certain fashion, it gets easier and easier to respond.

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

Arbitrage human nature. It's not going to change any time soon.

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

We all take leave of our senses, from time to time. . . . .

Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not- even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian- it's only a matter of time.

Let's put it this way: I did not get in trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble, I'd been drinking

Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.

Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.

Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.

Barbara Parkins was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly.

When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.