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Quotes About Behavior

With people, too, you constantly think, 'If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better.' They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.
~ Neil Peart
But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.
~ Neil Strauss
Guilt is about what you do with your dick. Shame is about being a dick.
~ Neil Strauss
After an hour of blather, I started to understand Tyler Durden. Human interaction to him was a program. Behavior was determined by frames and congruence and state and validation and other big-chunk psychological principles. And he wanted to be the Wizard of Oz: the little guy behind the curtain, pulling the strings that made everyone around him think he was a big and powerful master of the realm. I
~ Neil Strauss
Besides, most bystanders who see you approach a girl or a group assume that you know the people. So act like you do. Not only will it ease your worries about what everyone else is thinking, but it'll also make your approach more effective.
~ Neil Strauss
Dog Training by Lew Burke
~ Neil Strauss
Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we
~ Neil Strauss
There were guys who were uptight and set in their ways, like Cliff, who couldn't even handle having a nickname like everybody else. They tended to gather as much knowledge as they could but had trouble making even the smallest behavioral change.
~ Neil Strauss
It's up to you to choose whether you're going to use your body, which includes your brain, for sin or for the sake of righteousness.
~ Neil T. Anderson
The problem is not primarily external and resolved by learning to behave better. The problem is internal
~ Neil T. Anderson
Who knows? Why do women do anything they do? Except for you," George amended, as he always did. "You're logical.
~ Nell Freudenberger
I only drink a little, but when I do, I become a different person, and that person drinks a lot.
~ Nelson DeMille
Geniuses don't seem to have much tolerance for people who annoy them, or hinder them, and they tend to think they are not subject to the same rules of behavior as the mass of humanity. They are often unhappy and impatient people, and they can also be sociopaths, and sometimes psychopaths who
~ Nelson DeMille
Well, aside from money, you have what I call dick crimes. Dicks get you in trouble.
~ Nelson DeMille
early to bed, early to rise, makes a man sneaky and full of lies.
~ Nelson DeMille
Perverted is any ordinary person caught in the act.
~ Nelson Rodrigues
We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us.
~ Nelson Rodrigues
Some folks just have to have the liquor, times like these." He eyed a policeman on the corner. "That's what the cops here seem to think, in this city, at any rate. I've never seen a drunk arrested yet, not just for being drunk.
~ Nevil Shute
I want to drink hard liquor, as you call it, before lunch. I've got a mouth like the bottom of the parrot's cage. You wouldn't want me to throw a screaming fit in front of all your officers.
~ Nevil Shute
The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
For men do harm either out of fear or out of hatred.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Men for the most part follow in the footsteps and imitate the actions of others...
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Çünkü insanlar, eÄŸer iyi olmalar?n? gerektiren bir zorunluluk yoksa, kötü insanlar olarak kar??m?za ç?kar.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Machiavelli was in constant trouble for failing to keep the politicians properly informed of what he was up to. 16 One cannot help but feel his behavior suggests a professional civil servant's contempt for the amateurs from whom he was obliged to take his instructions, an attitude that could easily have led him to long for more authoritarian government.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli