Quotes About Behavior

We have just witnessed a classic example of what I like to call 'misdirected rage.' I believe the technical term is 'being an ass.

In Aristotle's words, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Our behavior toward others is often a reflection of our treatment of ourselves.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

There is substantial evidence that tic disorders have a genetic component. They may be caused by an oversensitivity to the neurotransmitter dopamine, which controls movement, and they may originate in the basal ganglia, the part of the brain that controls behaviors.

If you just do what you're doing, you're going to do what you do. Time to interrupt patterns.

I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time off for good behavior.

Etiquette is the stuff you gotta do just 'cause that's how everyone else does it. Like holding your fork in your left hand, or saying 'Bless you' if someone sneezes. Manners is treating people with respect.

Everyone was talking about talking, and the most moral person was the one who yelled at the most other people for doing the talking all wrong.

Manners is treating people with respect.

They brought in a mandatory sensitivity training session—which was fine by Cal, given the way some of the guys treated, for example, witnesses from bad hoods and rape victims, except the session turned out to be all about what words they were and weren't allowed to use; nothing about what they were doing, underneath all the words, and how they could do it better.

He strikes me as a psychopath, and they lie easier than they tell the truth.

Everyone was always talking about talking, and the most moral person was the one who yelled at the most other people for doing the talking all wrong.

I'm confused by the idea that you shouldn't go into a pub and do anything that might be bad for you,

People snap the way they snap.

I tell you what I won't put up with. You chose how to behave.

Gradually, after being the target a few times of a similar capriciousness, which he discerned as default behavior for most people, and not liking it, Paul learned to not be more generous or enthusiastic or attentive that he could sustain regardless of his mood and to not talk to people if his only reason to was because he felt lonely or bored.

Gradually, after being the target a few times of a similar capriciousness, which he discerned as default behavior for most people, and not liking it, Paul learned to not be more generous or enthusiastic or attentive than he could sustain regardless of his mood and to not talk to people if his only reason to was because he felt lonely or bored

other people very clearly, especially the ways we perpetuate our own suffering, driven by habitual impulses and patterns but oblivious to their root causes.

We can change habits at any of four levels: our thoughts, our emotions, our behavior, and our relationships.

Bringing an automatic habit into awareness in order to change it is a crucial step.