Quotes About Behavior

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

Nobody sets out to be evil. They're insecure, and they make bad decisions.

Most bad behaviour comes from insecurity.

When people are crass or loudmouthed, it's not because they don't give a damn. It's from fear and insecurity.

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my every instinct is to be funny, and I'm always having to dampen that down.

Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.

Intellectually, I believe there's no free will.

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.

I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.

When you don't behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.

The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

Intentions count in your actions.

I think every human being has good intentions in one aspect of life and some in every.

You need to kind of have a rubric, how you want to be, how you want to interact in this industry.

In life, we mostly manage to walk around interacting with each other fairly politely. But as soon as we get into our cars, we morph into something out of 'Mad Max'.

We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.