Quotes About Behavior

People exchange information about how to act in many ways. They observe each other and imitate what they see. When they imitate, they use their bodies to represent the bodies of others. But this imitation is not mindless, automatized mimicry. It is instead the ability to identify regularities or patterns in the behavior of other people, and then to imitate those patterns.

It is easier and more direct to represent a behavioral pattern with behavior than with words. Outright mimicry does that directly, action for action. Imitation, which can produce new behaviors akin to those that motivated the mimicry, takes that one step further.

A rabbit isn't virtuous, it just can't do anything except getting eaten. It's not virtuous. If you're a monster and you don't act monstrously, then that's virtuous.

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

inside the restaurant young Strattonites carried on their time-honored tradition of acting like packs of untamed wolves.

Certain people just have a look about them—you can spot them here and there, at gas stations and in checkout lines—like they fully expect to have a shitty day, and if it hasn't happened yet, by golly, they'll make sure they're disappointed before the sun goes down.

We become like those pious people who, over time, accumulate a sense of their own virtuousness so powerful as to make them believe the bad things they do are virtuous too.

irrational behavior is as unacceptable to a certain species of economist as the irrational magnitude of the hypotenuse was to the Pythagoreans. It doesn't fit their model of what can be; and yet it is.

the interesting thing about the slime mold is that it makes pretty good decisions.

Recognizing protective behavior is an important stage of exploration. Protections are strategies we use to keep our unconscious fears from consciousness.

Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats.

Lo primero que aprende a hacer un niño mexicano al llegar a este mundo, es llorar para que se atienda a sus necesidades. Lo siguiente que aprende es a tocar el claxon del coche de su papá, con el mismo objeto. Y toca el claxon y toca más.

Nem volt szükség a táborokra, hogy megtudjuk: az ember egyaránt képes a legjobbra és a legrosszabbra.

Traduzco: no es necesario cometer un delito para ser un delincuente.

Last but not least, he hated with all the hatred that was in him the rising generation, the appalling boors who find it necessary to talk and laugh at the top of their voices in restaurants and cafes, who jostle you in the street without a word of apology, and who, without expressing or even indicating regret, drive the wheels of a baby-carriage into your legs.

One can take pride in going as far in crime as a saint in virtue.

His behaviour was like that of the conscious or unconscious demonomaniacs who do evil for evil's sake. They are no more mad than the rapt monk in his cell, than the man who does good for good's sake. Anybody but a medical theorist can see that the desire for good and the desire for evil simply form the two opposing poles of the soul.

In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely.

If you're a jerk, it doesn't matter how smart you are.

La continuidad de la vida social sería posible sin esa compacta masa de hombres puramente imitativos, capaces de conservar los hábitos rutinarios que la sociedad les transfunde mediante la educación?

Los actos que al principio provocaban pudor, acaban por parecen naturales; el ojo percibe los tonos violentos como simples matices, el oído escucha las mentiras con igual respeto que las verdades, el corazón aprende a no agitarse por torpes acciones.

hombre normal no sería sinónimo de hombre equilibrado, sino de Hombre domesticado;

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.