Quotes About Behavior

We absorb and reflect what is around us. If we live in a place where people are angry and violent, then eventually we'll become like them.

Our quality of being determines our quality of doing.

With utmost courage, Jesus taught a gospel of nonviolence. Is the church today practicing the same by its presence and behavior? Do the churches practice nonviolence and social justice, or do they align themselves with governments that practice violence and hatred?

In the monastery, one must be aware of all that one does. If, for example, the student shuts the door in a noisy way, he thus proves that he is not aware of his being. Virtue does not lie exactly in the fact of closing the door gently, but in the awareness of the fact that one is in the process of closing the door.

I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice.

I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

Let's judge a man on what he's done.

Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.

There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.

In life, you don't judge people on how they are at home, you judge them on how they are at work.

It's really hard to judge people until you see what they do with the job.

Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.

Sometimes we are much better at judging people based on how they treat everyone other than ourselves. We make a million excuses for why they treat us how they do.

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

My father was judgmental and kind of mean, and I'm like that. And he was very perfectionistic, and I'm like that. And he was very hard on himself, and I'm like that.

I think people make a lot of judgments about me based on what I wear and all the things that I do.

The fact that so many comics were waiting to jump on the bandwagon of hate toward me - what is it about me that engages this kind of behavior? I began to see it: My cockiness, my lack of hanging out with other comics. A lot of that wasn't my fault.

Knowing when and where to sit is something every young executive should learn. A junior person who comes barging into a room and takes any seat he wants catches the disapproving eye of senior management.

Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Relationships will get you far in this industry. It's about how you move and how you act. Just be yourself.

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.

Now, a lot of people didn't know him at all - it went through feeder funds, so they wouldn't even have known anything about Bernie Madoff. But everybody finds a justification for their behavior, and obviously, Bernie had a half dozen justifications in his own mind.