Quotes About Behavior

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.

I always say golf's a really good exposer of a player's personality.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

Peeves do not make very good pets.

With so many public places banning pets people can't socialise their animals, which makes them more hostile and leads to unsocial behaviour.

You can draw the character out of pets, and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals.

I wasn't a good kid in school. I wasn't a bad kid. I just didn't focus. My grades weren't good. I mucked around, you know, a phase everyone went through.

I go through phases with money. I'll spend it liberally and then I'll panic and won't spend anything.

Character actors like Philip Seymour Hoffman and James Gandolfini have found themselves getting more and more leading roles because they are permitted to behave onscreen in ways that George Clooney and Matt Damon never could.

I've always had a dog phobia.

I have the best habits in the world, and I cannot keep my phone secure.

It doesn't take a cell phone to make a person rude. There are rude people all over the place. But people are learning. I have never heard a cell phone ring in the movies. We are going to learn how to live with the advantages of new technology.

You see families at a restaurant and the kids are on the phone and the adults are on the phone. It's just a catastrophe.

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

We're all severely addicted to our phones... it's not glamorous or always harrowing even, it's just damaging.

We tend to crib about kids being addicted to phones all the time, but the truth is that it is the parents who are the root cause of such behavior, because they are usually the original addicts.

We're going to have a generation of kids whose norm will be people just being addicted to their phones. And that's what scares me. The impact on my kids, I think about that daily. Like, what is this doing to me and my family?

In some cases, mobile phones have made people extremely unsocial. I don't like that.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics.