Quotes About Behavior

I have never subscribed to the idea that it's necessary to greet someone in the office by wrapping arms and touching backs.

The easiest way to win the competition for eyeballs in the digital age is to broadcast bad behavior. People like watching train wrecks.

Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.

I don't know how many bands I saw who would try to wreck a hotel room, but I never wrecked a hotel room in my life! If I'm gonna sit there and throw a TV out the window... if it's a good TV, maybe I should just take it home.

When you get older, you have to wrestle with what's appropriate behavior a little bit more. Am I not acting too old or too young?

Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.

In comic books, every character exists in this comic book world, and the wrestlers were the same thing. They were responsible for creating that world and putting it out there - having the confidence to go forward and do that and behave in a certain way.

One funny thing is, though, I wear my watch on my right hand and I'm actually right-handed. People always wonder why - I don't know myself, I've just always done it that way and I like it the way a good watch fits on my right wrist.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.

As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it was OK to let other people do that, and I benefited from their behavior.

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

It's hard to tell writers, especially in movies, that words are secondary. Behavior is important.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean, we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave.

The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do... For me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it's probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing.

Men were beasts. Everyone knew that.

Ravens aren't usually nocturnal, but hunger can be.

The colossal might of wickedness, he thought: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

Nunca uso las palabras humanista o humanitario, porque, para mí, el ser humano es capaz de cometer los crímenes más atroces de la naturaleza.

Sometimes I think that vengeance is habit forming too. A stiffness of the attitude.

Eu nunca uso as palavras humanista ou humanitário, pois me parece que ser humano significa ser capaz dos crimes mais hediondos da natureza.

You lie, cheat and steal and call it courtesy, cunning and thrift.

she heard Mrs. Brummidge hiss at Rhoda, "Unseemly!" with the same tone of scandal she might have used had she been saying "Strumpet!" or "Baptist!