Quotes About Behavior

Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right.

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

Man is an imitative creature.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive

Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.

boys had been programmed by Darwinian selection to run around in the open chucking spears at wild animals—something

trying to get Dutch people to prepare for disasters was a little like trying to get English people to watch football on the telly or Americans to buy guns.

A Kourier has to establish space on the pavement. Predictable law-abiding behavior lulls drivers. They mentally assign you to a little box in the lane, assume you will stay there, can't handle it when you leave that little box.

I'll buy it right now, Jack, said an English voice, somehow familiar, if you stop being such a fucking tosser, that is.

And don't give me any sentimental nonsense about creativity. I believe that a Universal Turing Machine could show behaviors that we would construe as creative.

People who claim they are motivated by the Purpose end up behaving differently—and generally better—than people who serve other masters." "So it is like believing in God." "Maybe yes. But without the theology, the scripture, the pigheaded certainty.

Most of their children had reached the age when they were no longer naturally endearing to anyone save their own parents; the size when their energy was more a menace than a wonder; and the level of intelligence when what would have been called innocence in a smaller child was infuriating rudeness. A honeybee cruising for nectar is pretty despite its implicit threat, but the same behavior in a hornet three times larger makes one glance about for some handy swatting material.

A honeybee cruising for nectar is pretty despite its implicit threat, but the same behavior in a hornet three times larger makes one glance about for some handy swatting material.

Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones. The goal of all such persons seems to be to make themselves cuddly and nonthreatening.

but it seemed that most of the people of Seattle were still obeying the rules and so he did likewise.

That man behaves so much like the villain in a work of literature, it's almost funny," Arsibalt observed.

Creo que lo que Camila quiere decir es que ciertos tipos de personalidad, si se llevan al extremo, son tan negativos como una enfermedad mental; si no peores