Quotes About Behavior

and it made me uncomfortable the way this guy was eating a scrawny chicken wing and looking at me. You know, I just wanted to tell him to knock it off and be a person.

Studies have shown that many heads of Fortune Five Hundred companies are sociopaths.

In short, this or that behavior wasn't good because scripture said so. Scripture mandated this or that behavior because it was good, and if it was already good before scripture said so, then it was good for some reason inherent to itself, some reason that reason could discover.

A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.

I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.

If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.

I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away? Alex wanted to know. You didn't see anything strange? Alanna didn't look up. No. It wasn't strange , she excused her lie mentally. Ralon does things like that all the time.

The only way we learn how adults act is from the adults who raised us. The children of monsters become monstrous, too.

Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.

I would like to discuss the psychological determinates in your use of copulative profanity.

People reveal their true character when they're off center.

You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.

As Jean-Paul Sartre said, we are the sum total of our actions. What is in our hearts does not matter.

Most sensitive boys tend to pause to reflect before acting and would not be considered risk-takers. This tendency can easily be understood as demonstrating a healthy caution. However, in most societies boys are frequently encouraged to engage in risky behavior and are praised when they do so, while more cautious behavior is regarded with shame.

when you sow a thought, you reap an action. When you repeat an action, you develop a habit. When you maintain a habit, you create a character.

The sensitive boy who reacts deeply to stimuli and exhibits emotional sensitivity is perfectly normal. However, there's something wrong with a society that shames males who do not act in a tough, aggressive, and emotionally repressed manner—especially when such a significant portion of the population simply isn't cut out for or comfortable with these behaviors.

It's OK to be an eccentric; it's not OK to be a rude and dirty eccentric.

For example, the main reason zebras never got domesticated is that they're ultra-high-fear. Zebras may bite people and not let go. They injure more people in zoos than the tigers do.15

intense stereotypies—stereotypies an animal spends hours a day doing—almost never occur in the wild

The "Intense World" paper proposed that if the amygdala, which is associated with emotional responses, including fear, is affected by sensory overload, then certain responses that look antisocial actually aren't.

but quite to the contrary a result of an intensely if not painfully aversively perceived environment." Behavior that looks antisocial to an outsider might actually be an expression of fear.

During meals, I was taught table manners, and I was not allowed to twirl my fork around over my head. The only time I could revert back to autism was for one hour after lunch. The rest of the day, I had to live in a nonrocking, nontwirling world.