Quotes About Behavior

If you want your children to eat better, don't tell them what to do; eat better yourself.

Much of what we learn about eating comes from the way our parents feed us.

Feeding, like eating, is a learned behaviour and the methods that most parents absorb for doing it are based on the values of former times when a child needed to be protected from scarcity rather than plenty.

A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

If addiction is a disease, how do you first catch it? I mean, if you've never tried a single sodding drug in the first place, how could you become addicted? You couldn't. It wouldn't be possible. You are making a choice that first time. You are volunteering for the addiction. You know it's wrong and self-destructive but you do it anyway.

You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.

Not being invited in is one of the boxes on the "suspicious behavior" bingo form that every copper carries around in their head along with "stupidly overpowerful dog" and being too quick to supply an alibi. Fill all the boxes and you too could win an all-­expenses-paid visit to your local police station.

According to this thing I saw on the internet, cats and dogs use expressions on us that they don't use on each other. This being on account of the fact that we effectively co-evolved together. So unless sheep are susceptible to a look of long-suffering patience, I'm going to say that the one Ziggy gave me was reserved for humans.

Classic grooming behavior, Dr. Walid told me later, something our fellow primates indulge in to maintain troop cohesion. Dr. Walid said human beings use language for the same purpose—which is why you find yourself talking total bollocks to people you meet at a bus stop and then wonder what the fuck did I do that for? As

Once they start to think about the consequences they almost always calm down – unless they're drunk of course, or stoned, or aged between fourteen and twenty-one, or Glaswegian.

We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.

As he brews, so shall he drink.

What I knew as much by instinct as by training was that when a boy like Jacob shows up in your cramped but light-filled office, you should not under any circumstances ask him to account for his behavior[...] Jacob would be the last person capable of such an account; if he had the language he wouldn't express himself with symptoms.

There was a village saying, much repeated: "God said behave, but He didn't say how.

human behaviour, if scrutinized sufficiently intensely, can begin to seem suspicious:

Britain's counterespionage officers saw signs of treachery in everything Ivor Montagu did: they saw it in his friends, his appearance, his opinions, and his behavior. But above all, they saw it in his passionate, and dubious, love of table tennis.

The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have one user. The nearly 1 million American users of the name Mary, for example, do not constitute a unified army who might slaughter all users of the name Nancy, as was earlier supposed, but rather a saturation of the Mary Potential Quotient. Simply stated: Too many women with the same name produces widespread mediocrity and fatigue.

Thomas's mistake, like most of the behavior he leaked into the world, had been avoidable: to join another human being in a situation that virtually demanded unscripted, spontaneous conversation, and thus to risk total moral and emotional dissolution. Death by conversation, and all that.

The other kids formed a roving pack, moving like one of those clusters of birds that seem to share a single, frantic brain.

you can be unethical and still be legal.

As long as you keep giving in," he said, "and as long as you keep rewarding her bad behavior, then she's going to keep right on doing it. Wouldn't you?

Sometimes market fears can be self-fulfilling, and a strong demonstration can avoid the worst outcomes.

I knew that psychological as well as economic factors motivate human behavior.

an inflation rate low enough that households and businesses did not take it into account when making economic decisions.