Quotes About Behavior

and therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of prattling, punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company,

Tis easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of modesty is want of sense.

But one does not dress for private company as for a public ball. 'Tis perhaps only negligence.

vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful,

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

If you do not cure yourself of this temper, it will end in insanity, of which it is the symptomatic forerunner.

But one does not dress for private company as for a public ball.

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

Conduct is more convincing than language,

CURIOUS: "Why do birds fly South for the winter?" SCIENCE: "Instinct." It means, "We don't know.

Aggression in bears can be and often is a stepping stone to friendship. Friendship and alliances frequently develop by repeated interactions, with initial aggression that lessens over time.

Highly social animals like dogs and chimpanzees who live in small groups evolved to be more tolerant in subordinate roles. The fact that young bears behave more like young humans suggests common influences upon their social behaviour.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

Wir können nicht unsere Hand dafür ins Feuer legen, wie wir unter bestimmten extremen Umständen reagieren. Seither bin ich Moralisten gegenüber sehr empfindlich.

As the ones human beings are extreamly apt to get under the influence of alcohol, and, while so, are very quarrelsome and disorderly, we strictly forbad the selling any liquor to them;

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

In economics, there can never be a "theory of everything." But I believe each attempt comes closer to a proper understanding of how markets behave.

If you can distill the essence of GE's stock behavior over the past twenty years, then you can apply it to financial engineering. You can estimate the risk of holding the stock over the next twenty years. You can estimate how many shares of the stock to buy for your portfolio. You can calculate the proper value of options you want to trade on the stock.

When someone keeps doing something, you say that that isn't him, he is just making some bad decisions. Sometimes those decisions reflect the person.

The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.

The dog is a reflection of your energy, of your behavior. You have to ask, 'What am I doing?' That's the right question to ask.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

To a certain extent, people's behavior in a campaign is generally a reflection of how they would act in office.