Quotes About Behavior

We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.

It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation.

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

As a psychologist, I can tell you that there are people who look very good in a group, but they're very different in a one-on-one situation.

The idea is that in any situation, people have a notion as to who they are and how they should behave. And if you don't behave according to your identity, you pay a cost.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

I made advances towards multiple women in work-related situations, where it was clearly inappropriate. I put people in compromising and inappropriate situations, and I selfishly took advantage of those situations where I should have known better. My behavior was inexcusable and wrong.

There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.

So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Well, that's just not going to happen.

The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.

I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don't think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

You see people in different situations behaving in very different ways. That can only benefit you as an actor.

I'm a pretty normal guy. I'm really good at knowing how a normal guy would react in situations.

I've tried to keep myself out of bad situations, and if that means I'm a Goody Two-shoes, so be it.

It's really easy to end up on the 'Daily Mail' if you put yourself in situations where you'll end up on the 'Daily Mail,' and it's really easy to not if you don't do that.

A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That's a super-interesting problem from an engineering perspective.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Go ahead, weathercasters and reporters: Tell Americans precisely what we don't want to hear: namely, that our self-indulgent, carbon-heavy, gluttonous and disposable lifestyle is precisely what is churning up the angry response from the skies and seas.

It's actually kind of a skill to act cold - to have the mannerisms of being cold when it's the complete opposite of how you behave when you're hot.

No longer do companies study consumers' psyches only by asking people what they think about technology and how they use it. Now they conduct observational research, dispatching anthropologists to employ their ethnographic skills by interviewing, watching and videotaping consumers in their natural habitats.

The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.