Quotes About Behavior

men are often persuaded to new vices when properly motivated.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I don't believe in such a thing as the criminal mind. Everyone's mind is criminal; we're all capable of criminal fantasies and thoughts.

violence is committed by people who look and act like people

Though we live in space-age times, we still have stone-age minds. We are competitive and territorial and violent, just like our simian ancestors. There are people who insist this isn't so, who insist that they could never kill anyone, but they invariably add a telling caveat: "Unless, of course, a person tried to harm someone I love." So the resource of violence is in everyone; all that changes is our view of the justification.

A woman is expected, first and foremost, to respond to every communication from a man.

Men who will not harm you needn't persuade you to trust them; they simply act appropriately from the moment you meet them and for as long as you know them. They

We become what we consistently do.

A class is thread-safe if it behaves correctly when accessed from multiple threads, regardless of the scheduling or interleaving of the execution of those threads by the runtime environment, and with no additional synchronization or other coordination on the part of the calling code.

stereotypes are such dangerous stuff; they narrow your frame of mind, and shape your reference and behavior.

Virtue is acting naturally, doing the right thing without thinking "I'm doing the right thing!" Righteousness is acting unnaturally, following rigid rules or commandments that all too often make us a worse, rather than a better, person.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them," Jim said later. "They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

He was a muted egomaniac—he tried to keep his grandiosity under cover—but an egomaniac nonetheless.

It's not technically gossip if you start your sentence with "I'm really concerned about __________________ ," (fill in the name of the person you're not gossiping about).

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

how far was a feeling genuine if it did not find expression in an external act?

high-reactive infants matured into more inhibited, introverted teenagers.

The basic rule: distractions of all kinds make us eat, forget how much we eat, and extend how long we eat—even when we're not hungry.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Man is a bad animal....

If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.

Actions speak louder than words ever thought to, but patterns define you...

I took notes as they divided the world between those who had stuff taken away from them, and those who took, those who did bad things in a good way- gracefully, effortlessly- and those bumblers who bumbled their way through life.