Quotes About Behavior

an honest being who does not behave absurdly has no chance at all of becoming famous, or even of being noticed, however kind and sensible he may be.

though sometimes it seems to mention a man who simply acts like a decent human being gets undue praise

Alice was clever, but she had the kind of cleverness that verged on the unkind

Living, it seemed to her, was the acquiring of bad habits. Dying, the process of rescinding them.

I'm meant to love you, no matter how you act, no matter what you do? I couldn't respect myself if I felt that way.

Despite everything that transpired at Unfair Games on December 4th, 2005, and despite evidence to the contrary, it is not an inevitability that we should be our worst selves behind the mask of an avatar.

It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.

Whatever it is, wherever he is, whatever he is doing, he smiles: it is a malady he has, neither an elegant one as I think, nor in good taste.

Depressed heartbreak is rarely disruptive or demanding or loudly eccentric. Depressed heartbreak is like taking a step into death while looking like you have remembered how to behave. I think this tells us something about the half-deadness this world [under late capitalism] demands of us. Learning to go through the motions and not hope too much.

You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.

Growth is a slow process and so is change in behaviour. The therapist must be patient with the process.

You know," he said, "at some point you're going to realize that being a smart-ass isn't as much about being smart as it is about being an ass." "That's good," I said. "Did you read that in a fortune cookie?

And when a bitch was in heat, he'd mount her good and go about his business without a thought about who was watching or who cared.

You know, he said, at some point you're going to realize that being a smart-ass isn't about being smart as it is about being an ass.

You know," he said, "at some point you're going to realize that being a smart-ass isn't as much about being smart as it is about being an ass.

Thomas Hieke puts the matter: "This dramatic narrative dispels the misunderstanding that one can compel God to behave in a certain way through human—or more exactly—ritual action.

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

Inside every child is an 'emotional rani's waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop normally but when the love tank is empty, the child will misbehave. Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty 'love tank

Like I said, you can tell a whole lot about someone from the way cows are around him.

At birth, a child has no functioning conscience, nor does a baby or pretoddler have the reasoning capacity to grasp right and wrong, good and evil. That does not mean parents should delay introducing required and acceptable behavior. For example, the fact that a child has no moral understanding of why food should not be intentionally dropped from his highchair does not mean parents should hold back instruction or fail to discourage the behavior.

Even the most outspoken of the critics must admit that long before we had print and film media to "spread the word," mankind was engaged in all forms of cruel and despicable behavior. To attribute war, killing, and violence to film, TV, and role-play games is to fly in the face of thousands of years of recorded history.

The market at the moment is in classic herding behaviour, shifting the market from one extreme to the other, with central bank policies the main influencing factor.

Every day, without realizing it, we engage in all manner of activities that diminish our willpower. Willpower is depleted when we make decisions to focus our attention, suppress our feelings and impulses, or modify our behavior in pursuit of goals. It's like taking an ice pick and gouging a hole in our gas line. Before long we have willpower leaking everywhere and none left to do our most important work. So like any other limited but vital resource, willpower must be managed.