Quotes About Behavior

Humility. Never announce that you are a knight, simply behave as one. You are better than no one, and no one is better than you.

When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.

The study of our habitual conditioning and how habit leads us to react is the study of karma. On

Karma becomes most relevant if we simply examine it as a psychology of habit. Karma is about beginning to see the general script we act from, the strategies we employ when confronted with familiar obstacles along our commute. This

every habit contains a kind of protective intelligence, a wisdom that somehow got frozen in a bygone time.

Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.

'Most all the time, the whole year round, there ain't no flies on me,But jest 'fore Christmas I'm as good as I kin be!

Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.

but there is a broad similarity between the directions in the psalm and the contemporary movement known as "behavior modification"—which in a rough-and-ready way means that you can act yourself into a new way of being.

Many think that the only way to change your behavior is to first change your feelings.

But there is an older wisdom that puts it differently: by changing our behavior we can change our feelings.

But we do know that much of what we commonly describe as Christian behavior is not volitional at all—it is enforced. But worship is not forced. Everyone who worships does so because he or she wants to.

We use this comparison, even if improperly, because dogs, hyenas, or other fierce beasts never do the evil things that men do.)

The more comfortable we are, research suggests, the more destruction we are likely to be causing.

The study looked at two groups of people, one vaccinated against the flu and the other not vaccinated. After both groups were asked to read an article exaggerating the threat posed by the flu, the vaccinated people expressed less prejudice against immigrants than the unvaccinated people.

Women apologize as often to their friends as to strangers. Men rarely apologize to their friends. "Men," the linguist Janet Homes writes, "seem to avoid apologies where possible.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

If primness is a small recoil of distaste at things that give others simple and hearty pleasure, then prim is what I'm really becoming.

In a way, part of the widespread success of happiness actually lies in that it delivers a legitimate, universalizing and apolitical discourse for individualism - a discourse that conceives one's life as separate from community and which sees the inner life as the cause and root of all behaviors.

To behave unconventionally is liable to be misinterpreted.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Zoo: An excellent lace to study the habits of human beings

The trouble with child training is that parents teach their children not how to behave, but how not to behave.

Just promise me you'll stop acting like a bastard," Lock pleaded. "Having her hate us won't help the process any." Deep gave him a sardonic smile. "Don't worry—I'll be on my best behavior.