Quotes About Behavior

If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.

The routines of social intercourse in established settings allow us to deal with anticipated others without special attention or thought.

I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

If you're a gazelle, you don't have a very complex emotional life, despite being a social species. But primates are just smart enough that they can think their bodies into working differently. It's not until you get to primates that you get things that look like depression.

We are a complex species to observe.

Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.

When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'.

Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

I would love to be a field biologist. I would love to do what Jane Goodall did, just totally immerse myself in the life of one specific species for years and study every aspect of its behavior until little by little, all of these patterns become clear. That would be great, but I don't know if I have it left in me.

New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves.

All animals exhibit innate behaviors in response to specific sensory stimuli that are likely to result from the activation of developmentally programmed circuits.

Whether in the locker room, the community, or at home, our goal should not be to simply behave in a specific way. It should instead be to instill the correct values in our hearts, so that our actions will flow out unimpeded, confirming what we truly believe.

Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.

Most human beings, there's a spectrum of bad behavior.

One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.

I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable.

Speech is the mirror of action.

Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one's lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.

The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.

I'm sure people are shocked when they see a guy speeding and cutting them off and having road rage while in a Prius.

Dangerous behaviors like distracted driving, speeding, and not wearing a seat belt and puts you and others at serious risk.

If you spend enough time around something like baboons, you start to look at humans differently.

If expectations of lifetime earnings drop, then so will spending.