Quotes About Behavior

It was what Raymond Chandler would have called "a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

A group of people was something like a primitive organism, affected by mood and atmosphere and even weather, resistant to change, with each member playing a specific role. Leaders, followers, scourges, clowns—every group had them, and people slipped into their parts as easily as actors taking on familiar stock roles.

Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat.

Loyalty is proved by what we do, not where we come from!

You drift around the camp like a little dark cloud looking for someone to rain on," Leafpool snapped (at Jaypaw).

Loyalty is proved by what we do, not where we came from!

Clear Sky rolled his eyes as he swallowed the prey. "Why must you always be so unselfish?

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

The power siblings have over our eating habits is no small thing. yet we hardly ever talk about these familial influences.

There is a deep resistance to the idea of dietary change, at both a cultural and an individual level. And yet, you accept the premise that eating is a learned behaviour, it follows that changing eating habits must be - if not likely and certainly not easy - at least possible.

Memory is the single most powerful driving force in how we learn to eat; it shapes all our yearnings.

Each bite that you see the other person take reinforces your liking. Or not: it is hard to sit calmly by and carry on eating if you share a table with someone who is grumbling that peas are 'gross' and pinging them at you with a knife.

Our childhood experiences with food can trap us in destructive patterns for the rest of our lives.

It turns out that wherever we are from, people are capable of altering not just what they eat but what they want to eat and their behaviour when eating.

But we haven't paid anything like enough attention to another consequence of being omnivores, which is that eating is not something we are born instinctively knowing how to do, like breathing. It is something we learn.

We create our own pattern of eating, as distinctive as a signature.

My premise in First Bite is that the question of how we learn to eat - both individually and collectively - is the key to how food, for so many people, has gone so badly wrong. The greatest public health problem of modern times is how to persuade people to make better food choices.

Once the pattern of not being hungry in the morning is set, it modifies the way you eat for life.

The way we eat is not a question of worthiness but of routine and preference, built over a lifespan.

Very little about the way we eat is, in fact, logical.

Once we accept that eating is a learned behavior, we see that the challenge is not to grasp information but to learn new habits.

The loss of hunger regulation after the age of four is a phenomenon that transcends cultures and continents.

It's a chancy business, taking our cues about how much to consume from our surroundings.