Quotes About Behavior

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Az emberek - akár mint uralkodók, akár mint polgárok - szeretik saját vélekedéseiket és elfogultságaikat viselkedési szabályként másokra erÅ'ltetni; s ezt a hajlamot az emberi természet legjobb és legrosszabb tulajdonságai is oly erÅ'sen táplálják, hogy aligha lehet majd valaha is mással, mint a hatalom hiányával kordában tartani...

They are not insincere when they say that they believe these things. They do believe them, as people believe what they have always heard lauded and never discussed. But in the sense of that living belief which regulates conduct, they believe these doctrines just up to the point to which it is usual to act upon them.

Every one knows how absurd it would be to infer from what a man is or does when in a private station, that he will be and do exactly the like when a despot on a throne; where the bad parts of his human nature, instead of being restrained and kept in subordination by every circumstance of his life and by every person surrounding him, are courted by all persons, and ministered to by all circumstances.

It is what men think, that determines how they act

In the long run the best proof of a good character is good actions.

I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.

I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried. So I try to stay upbeat.

People who read too many books get quirky. We can't have too much eccentricity or it would bankrupt us. Market research depends on people behaving as if they were all alike.

The children I teach are uneasy with intimacy or candor. They cannot deal with genuine intimacy because of a lifelong habit of preserving a secret inner self inside a larger outer personality made up of artificial bits and pieces of behavior borrowed from television or acquired to manipulate teachers. Because they are not who they represent themselves to be, the disguise wears thin in the presence of intimacy; so intimate relationships have to be avoided.

O comportamento humano nos contextos das redes operacionais frequentemente se assemelha a um ato dramático — se adéqua a um roteiro produzido para satisfazer as demandas de um enredo.

Massified populations cannot exercise self-control very well since they depend on constant oversight to behave as required. When external controls are removed, anything becomes possible.

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

Vatican II, however, moved beyond behavior modification to motivation and inspiration, and for that reason conscience, a subject that like holiness was never mentioned in previous councils, emerged as an important theme at Vatican II.

While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid.

What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?

Ach, wie anständig finden wir uns doch, wenn wir keinen Anlass haben, unanständig zu sein!

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?

Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.