Quotes About Behavior

People in Los Angeles are more used to acting silly than other people.

Most of my characters are silly little boys. It's human. Everyone is badly behaved.

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes.

What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Human adaptability simply doesn't get accurately captured in econometric models.

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Psychology is simply great because it helps you better understand all kinds of people.

There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need to do - or want to do - next. They see nothing wrong with it. They feel no guilt. They express no guilt. And it's not even certain what harm they do.

The difference between explaining behavior and excusing it is captured in the saying To understand is not to forgive.

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.

He has all the uncanny intuitions of a psychopath. Have you ever dealt with one? It's almost like a form of mind-reading...

maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was

That's the kind of person she was, a cat-kicker. What a bitch.

The tricky part of any lie is trying to figure out how you'd behave if you were innocent.

I find it so liberating when other people are rude. It makes me feel mild and lazy and mean.

i'm happiest when signs are posted--no spitting, no public urination, no walking on the grass. i might not obey but at least i know where i stood.