Quotes About Behavior

You can only control your own actions. Not other people's reactions.

Raging like a lion or wild boar and slaughtering many enemies may be worthy of praise and honor in the world of Homer's characters, but similes claiming that the warriors are like such beasts invite the audience to consider whether it really is optimal behavior for a human being. Is it really something to brag about?

We have voluntary show enough already in London; we do not wish to have it encouraged and intensified, but quieted and mitigated.

Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another.

I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now the model for all human behavior, drained of emotion and anger.

The virtue of women is perhaps a question of temperament.

If a man would have the right to make stepping-stones of all the heads which crowd a drawing-room, he must be the lover of some artistic woman of fashion.

Silliness has two ways of comporting itself; it talks, or is silent. Silent silliness can be borne.

I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they change their colors.

Most people are constantly perpetrating little acts of violence on others, even when they don't mean to.

I'm extremely, almost pathologically sensitive to violence, and I pick up on it immediately when something violent is happening. Most people are constantly perpetrating little acts of violence on others, even when they don't mean to.

Me es difícil resistirme a estas muestras de buenos modales. Tengo la impresión de que estas personas tan bien educadas jamás podrían hacerle nada malo a nadie. Yendo un poco más lejos, parece que sepan discernir a quién sí pueden hacérselo.

I know just how slimy people can be, and how people like that are during the daytime. They don't get slimy at night because they're drunk, they get slimy because they're already slimy to begin with. I

Eriko raised me that way," he said, laughing. "If I didn't open the door for her, she'd get mad and refuse to get in the car." "Even though she was a man!" I said, laughing. "Right, right, even though she was a man.

Non si diventa volgari per colpa dell'alcol: si diventa volgari perché lo si è già.

no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them—they change their colors.

He had to treat him as the maniac he obviously was. The fact that his insanity was dressed in religious trappings meant nothing.

That's the trouble with people like them, I suppose; whenever you think you're detecting the first signs of them starting to behave responsibly, it's just them being even more devious and underhand than usual.

People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.

It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.

Students frequently misbehave because they (1) want and need attention from adults and peers, (2) are trying to avoid a difficult or unpleasant task (too difficult, too easy, too boring), or (3) for some older students, revenge.

The more attention you pay to the behavior you want from students, the more it will happen.

The process of determining if the misbehavior was getting something the student wanted or was avoiding something he didn't want is called functional behavioral assessment or analysis (FBA).

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.