Quotes About Behavior

Maybe you picked up stuff from your mom without even knowing it.

Wildness in animals is a curious thing to us humans. Isn't that why people watch Animal Planet? Escape. Maybe that's why we watch. Animal behavior is elemental. It takes us back to a simpler time.

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive

Human beings were such ridiculously predictable creatures.

I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

Everything we do tells something about us.

Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

After that I behaved myself very good. I sat up real straight. And I did all my work. Work is when you use your brain and a pencil.

Cause punishment takes the friendly right out of you.

Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.

One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.

Oh, yes, men are very simple and obvious in some ways, you know. They generally react in the way one would expect and it is often rather a cowardly way.

But now respectable elderly women do not need to excuse themselves for buying brandy or even gin, though it is quite likely that some still do and perhaps one may hope that they always will.

porque yo había observado que los hombres no solían hacer cosas a menos que les gustara hacerlas.

Some people have a pattern of getting exhausted to cover up resentment—or one of grouchiness to cover up fear.

Border Collies need stability, but they don't have to have routine – in fact, once in a routine they can become quite demanding

Collies learn things quickly but they can also pick up bad habits just as quickly. A simple Border Collie 'task' of digging for a bug or a worm can soon turn into a massive excavation.

A young dog under pressure will make mistakes and pressure on a dog is usually caused by an impatient handler.

Never take hold of a dog's collar and pull him to where you want him to be, as this is a direct confrontation to a dog and can make a strong-minded dog want to be dominant and a gentle or sensitive dog may be made to feel submissive, neither of which you want in your dog. There

A Collie who learns to chase a ball before he learns how to control his enthusiasm can become ball-obsessed. A Collie who learns how to invent his own game with a ball, before running to retrieve one, will be less obsessive, and will be able to amuse himself without getting over-excited.

History never repeats itself," said Voltaire; "man always does." Thucydides,