Quotes About Behavior

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man. MARK TWAIN

From the dog's viewpoint, however, they are directly asserting dominance with that stare. When you respond by giving him what he wants, the dog interprets this as a submissive gesture on your part, and also reads this as your acceptance that the dog has a higher status in the pack than you do.

Men who are loudly charged with repression before they have done anything to substantiate the charge are apt to proceed to substantiate it.

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controlling his behavior. That is why ideology, an attempt to interpret the condition of man, is always a prominent feature of revolutions, wars, and other circumstances in which individuals are called upon to perform extraordinary action.

Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controlling his behavior.

There is a propensity for people to accept definitions of action provided by legitimate authority

Subjective feelings are largely irrelevant to the moral issue at hand so long as they are not transformed into action.

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

parents are the most important influences on children, and that the best way to curb misbehavior is to insist on standards of decency. If we cannot persuade our children that they have the capacity to manage their lives and that the world is worth living in—and then work to create a world in which this is true—medical treatments will expand endlessly but will not be able to help us.

Maia Szalavitz, author of Unbroken Brain: Why Addiction is a Learning Disorder and What to Do About It; neuroscience

How you coach them is how they're going to play.

humans had to become the nicest of all apes before they could also evolve into the smartest.

we saw a female attack another female from her own community, and then steal and eat her infant.

No one acts altruistically without regard to the costs.

it's almost a prerequisite that you master the techniques of workplace bullying.

Because if I smashed anything, Team Jaiden would just get me into a behavior modification program, or maybe some doctor would put be on drugs for my ADD or bipolarism or depression or whatever they're calling being alive and feeling royally screwed these days.

Our decisions are to a much greater extent dependent on our desire to conform to the standards of our class and environment than we are inclined to admit. A considerable proportion of our reasoning is merely an automatic function, so to speak, of influences and impressions which have become part of us...

Mutluyken adil davranmak, mutsuzken adil davranmaktan daima daha kolayd?r. syf- 160

In times of exceptional stress, nature will often give people's behavior so tragical a complexion that neither a picture nor a verbal description is competent to represent its titanic energy.

Kad?nlar genel olarak, içlerindeki kendini verme arzusu ne kadar yak?c? olursa olsun, bu haz?r oluÅŸ durumunu inkar etmek, ürkmüÅŸ gibi yapmak veya yalanlar, yeminler ve vaatler arac?l???yla önce yat??t?r?lmas? gereken bir öfkeyi oynamak al??kanl???ndad?rlar.

Klug sein hat noch nie einen Menschen an Dummheiten gehindert.

Raramente se llega a observar la gratitud de los hombres; los agradecidos no saben por lo común cómo exteriorizarlo, se sienten cohibidos, callan avergonzados y, con harta frecuencia, desean ocultar sus sentimientos y se muestran con una extrema torpeza.

You don't run amok for long with impunity, you're bound to be struck down in the end...