Quotes About Behavior

Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.

Children always tend to imitate everything that we are doing in front of them.

Trump's foreign policy is not so much immoral as it is amoral.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.

If student A 'impacts' student B with a fist, they shouldn't 'dialogue as equals.' Student A should be disciplined. When you assault your co-worker or curse out your boss, you don't get a 'restorative circle' - you get fired.

In many cases, it's a choice. There are many, many human beings through history - millions and millions and millions - who have been both homosexual at times in their lives and then heterosexual, or vice-versa, or bisexual. How can it be a biological imperative if people can change?

Twenty-eight days is what is takes to break a habit and to implement a new set of habits.

I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.

Dortmund tried very early to sign me and always kept in close contact with me - this behaviour has really impressed me.

People have a different impression sometimes because of the way I'm on court, but outside, I'm nothing like that.

We humans actually need help controlling our impulses - nudges.

Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive.

I am very impulsive and very stupid sometimes, but I am very clean.

Consumer culture needs us to be impulsive, while our political culture fears that we will ever develop discipline.

Criminalizing behavior, if it's part of the heritage of this state, is in my opinion a bad idea.

It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

When a match doesn't go your way, people tend to take to social media and just say very inappropriate things.

Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior.

I want to keep the government out of the business of giving incentives to have or not have kids, or incentives to marry or not marry.

Like everyone else, rich people respond to incentives.

You need to talk like your boss and copy their actions. Like, if they cross their legs, you do the same. If people think you're like them, you're more inclined to get what you want out of them.