Quotes About Behavior

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.

Our brains are subject to either sudden or gradual decline with age, to self-destructive addictive behaviors, to depression and anxiety disorders, and to many other limitations, not to mention potentially catastrophic lapses of judgment.

If these biochemical phenomena sound similar to those of the fight-or-flight syndrome, they are, except that here we are running toward something or someone; indeed, a cynic might say toward rather than away from danger. The changes are also fully consistent with those of the early phases of addictive behavior. The Roxy Music song "Love Is the Drug" is quite accurate in describing this state (albeit the subject of the song is looking to score his next fix of love).

When people have difficulty achieving regular releases of dopamine through these kinds of socially accepted activities, they will often seek a shortcut.

The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits of this learning process are encoded in DNA.

Churches don't make the gospel true. It is true even when the household of God behaves badly. But people can see that it is true, and doubters are converted when "the sweetness of the Lord" is upon us (Ps. 90:17, JB).

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.

More importantly, modern dogs simply don't behave like modern wolves. Popular dog "experts" like Cesar Millan may tell you that a good dog owner needs to play the role of the alpha wolf, the dominant pack leader. But the fact is that dogs don't live in hierarchically organized packs. Indeed it's doubtful that most wolves live this way.

Thus the behavioral ecologist wants to measure four major costs for any animal or species: the costs of design, foraging, reproduction, and hazard avoidance.

Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.

the thing that "makes us human. We have minds. We make our own choices and live by them. We shape our own lives with how we behave towards others.

God doesn't care about what you eat or what you drink. He doesn't care about how often you pray to him or what words you use or where you go to do that....He only cares about how you behave towards one another.

maybe we don't need a heavenly bribe or the fear of hell and damnation to make us behave decently. Maybe it would be healthier if people started believing in themselves instead.

William Osler's ironical definition of man as 'the medicine-taking animal' is therefore justified inasmuch as it captures something distinctive about humans.

At the conventional level, the precept of no intoxicants is understood as encouraging us to control our behavior by not using addictive substances to manipulate our state of being. Ironically, using individual effort to try to control our behavior is itself a violation of the ultimate meaning of the precept, because it is akin to manipulating our experience.

Watch what you say and do because little eyes are watching you.

He drank his shot and remembered that Madeline had called her last boyfriend a drunk, and he had a good feeling about that, too. In his experience, women who said they hated drunks went home with them over and over again.

If you want to act like a butthead, your butt is going to get locked up.

You need to be careful with a Bluetooth headset. Because some guys look crazy with them.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.

I've never bet in a casino; it's just not something I do.

People can be a little bit catty.