Quotes About Behavior

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Everybody we meet has an influence on us and an impact - good or bad. And I think that's why we have to be careful with the way we handle people because what we're doing is making an impact.

If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.

The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

I'm not saying that maybe there isn't a kid out there whose behavior hasn't been influenced by me in some way. I'm sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you'd asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I'd admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that'd be a yes, totally. Right down to their hand gestures.

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

The way you think influences the way you feel, and the way you feel determines how you act.

Belief that influences behavior influences results.

The climate informs the character.

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

I'm not satisfied with the term 'evil.' We've inherited this word... and we use it to express our abhorrence when people do awful things, usually acts of cruelty, but I don't think it's anything more than another word for doing something bad.

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody's behaving 'inhuman,' it's not. It's very human - it's just not a very nice side of it.

There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American experience is the American experience.

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

I used to download music illegally. Everyone has. No one is innocent. Everyone has done that.

Innovative companies have started to realize there are not enough 'green consumers' willing to pay more for something just because it's green.

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

Sometimes people go into my business because they like to drink, which - that's insane.