Quotes About Behavior

As well as walking erect and disguising his tiredness, he also tried to avoid other symptoms of old age: meanness, mistrust, ill temper, resentment, and bad habits such as no longer shaving every day, repeating the same stories over and over, talking about himself, his ailments, or money.

los mismos hombres que en la vida cotidiana parecen mansos, al contar con impunidad y un buen pretexto suelen convertirse en fieras sanguinarias.

Captain Longfellow—who, like most Englishmen, was kinder to animals than to people

As well as walking erect and disguising his tiredness, he also tried to avoid other symptoms of old age: meanness, mistrust, ill temper, resentment, and bad habits such as no longer shaving every day, repeating the same stories over and over, talking about himself, his ailments, or money. By

Sus modales eran impecables, requisito esencial en la clase alta, dónde el uso debido del tenedor era más importante que las condiciones morales de un sujeto.

Superego is not the same as consciousness; the former punishes us and the latter guides us.

y con buenos modales para ir a restaurantes y al cine.

the national sport is to talk about the person who just left the room. In this, too, we are different from our idols, the English, whose principles forbid them from making personal remarks.

lo trataba con la simpatía distraída que normalmente se reserva para las mascotas ajenas.

No bastaba con caminar erguido y disimular el cansancio, también se cuidaba de tantos otros síntomas de la edad: avaricia, desconfianza, mal humor, resentimiento y malos hábitos, como dejar de afeitarse a diario, repetir las mismas anécdotas, hablar de sí mismo, de enfermedades o dinero.

decidió que era en los detalles donde estaba la diferencia entre un caballero y un patán

We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.

I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.

We've got to understand that the ages of zero to three are the most formative years of a person's life, the time they learn the concept of reward and punishment and develop a conscience, and that 50 percent of all learned human response is learned in the first year of life.

In our era of zero tolerance, I would surely have spent most of elementary and middle school shuttling between suspensions and expulsions, with an occasional time out for social studies.

Broken-windows enforcement is really about controlling behavior to such an extent you change it: If you deal with the little things, you can keep them from going into the big things. Zero tolerance implies zealotry. It's oppressive. And it's not achievable. You're never going to be in a position to eliminate all crime.

I think he tries to be nice. But he has absolutely zero self-awareness. None. Zip. So we see the public Donald Trump, the candidate, as being different than the in-person Donald Trump.

It's the smartphone that has turned adults and children alike into tech-addicted zombies, dumbly swiping and jabbing at their screens, oblivious to the world around them.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold, they go to the theatre instead.

The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks, he thinks as he lives.