Quotes About Behavior

O rosto que você apresenta ao mundo diz ao mundo como tratar você (...).

We influence by what we are and by what we do. In one sense, it could be said that we influence others simply by being.

I was suspicious immediately. Be abidingly suspicious of any teenage male who is mannerly, respectful, and absent attitude. That kid is up to something. Guaranteed

Troublesome as females are when they step out of their proper roles as connivers, manipulators, gossips, backstabbers, and bearers and nurturers of the young, slaughtering them is not an acceptable form of chastisement.

All of the emotional signalling that animals use is still present in humans and registers importantly with us.

Putting things off or not finishing is behavior that many of us adopt to avoid uncomfortable feelings of pain, guilt, shame, anxiety, or fear. Procrastinators

There was no logical explanation for what I did. It had to come from my DNA. That's

It's like Eldridge Kestenbaum always says - you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Horse manure catches more flies than honey and vinegar put together, retorted Mark.

As an animal lover, I never blame any living creature for doing what's in its nature.

Children do not experience our intentions, no matter how heartfelt. They experience what we manifest in tone and behavior.

Increasingly, children's behavioral problems are ascribed to various medical syndromes such as oppositional defiant disorder or attention deficit disorder. These diagnoses at least have the benefit of absolving the child and of removing the onus of blame from the parents, but they camouflage the reversible dynamics that cause children to misbehave in the first place.

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

Blaise rather liked the way that manners had been pared down to their essentials.

Wo immer ein Thron ist, findet man in reicher Auswahl jede Torheit und jede Bosheit, deren der Mensch fähig ist, poliert mit guten Manieren und vergoldet mit Heuchelei.

Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done things are done every day, Henry. It's part of modern life. I've done most of them myself.

In a common situation, I suppose we all behave much alike and use the same words.

There was not much one could do; he decided at least to be good.

I could have hated him for saying it: it was like a claim. If you really loved me, I thought, you'd behave like any other injured husband. You'd get angry and your anger would set me free.

Quizá el sentido de la moral es la triste compensación que aprendemos a valorar como premio por la buena conducta.

I was no longer on my dignity.

All right. I know I'm behaving badly, and I'm going to go on behaving badly. This is a situation where people do behave badly.

You don't understand. Speaking, talking--language, that is--represents the most orderly, civilized, and rational expression of human nature. All this foul-mouthed cussing is a gap where you can't think of anything to say. It's the opposite of being rational and ordered. The very opposite. It wants to unpick civilized behavior, rationality, and order.