Quotes About Behavior

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

As I became more interested in behavior from the standpoint of neurobiology, the stress-response became really interesting. What stress physiology is about is - when there is a new environmental challenge, how does an individual adapt? It seemed like a natural transition.

Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.

If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.

Society has no place for active lunatics.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.

Such as thy words are such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections will be thy deeds and such as thy deeds will be thy life ...

he was soon drawn into a circle of associates who did not improve either his habits or his morals.

When family life stops, delinquency begins

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.

Speech is the image of actions.

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.

i told them that men and women are measured by their acts not by their swaggering speech or walk, or the money they have stashed between their legs.

You [I] have control over three things – what you [I] think what you [I] say, and how you [I] behave. To make a change in your [my] life, you [I] must recognize that these gifts are the most powerful tools you [I] possess in shaping the form of your [my] life.

I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides.

we cannot help how we feel, but we can choose whether or not to act upon those feelings.

Alas, the human mind is a perverse, uncontrollable organ,