Quotes About Behavior

Humans are the only ones who are the custodians of other people's morals.

I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.

Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative.

You do not have to be a rocket scientist to know that it is hard for a market to keep going up when more and more people are getting out.

Listen, when John Wall came out and did the Dougie, first home game, for 34 seconds, he was a moron. It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. I will never back down.

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

The most important thing is culture.

Podcast listening, much like radio listening, is largely a question of habit. And the most powerful habits are the ones that fit into our daily routine.

There is research on the effects of 9/11, and you know, compared to the enormity of it, it didn't have a huge effect on people's mood. They were going about their business, mostly.

Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

It is imperative that mothers understand their child's behavior and not blindly support the wrongdoings or faults in their sons.

I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.

I don't think people do anything out of fear very well. So I think the only choice is to have them intrinsically motivated.

People motivated by fear do not act well.

What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.

Knowing that changing lifestyle changes our genes is often very motivating - not to blame, but to empower.

The crowd could be tough to deal with at times, but I learned to use them and the way they behaved towards me as strong motivation.

Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.

I'm not sure about public apologies on behalf of other people as far as the motivation for them.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.