Quotes About Behavior

A newly-born child has no volitions, only reflexes. It is only when experience has supplied us with an idea of what may be done that we will it shall be done. This consideration alone is enough to shatter the case for the supposed freedom of the will. [3]

Ostriches like shiny things like coins and eyeballs.

As the search continues for an understanding of the archetypal images, Jung would probably have us remember that an archetype is a hypothetical model, something like the 'pattern of behaviour' in biology. The portraits of the Goddesses in patriarchal mythology are, indeed, patterns of behaviour: They are stories told by men of how women react under patriarchy.

I believe ghosts are like dogs and they just sort of do things arbitrarily.

was odd that the French were so dignified in death but in life acted like shits squealing on each other.

You better not come home with your clothes smelling like marijuana." The way she said it—mary-ju-wanna—made it sound like some exotic,

Jimmy liked to control his environment. He didn't drink, so no one took a drink in his presence. He didn't smoke, so nobody lit up around him. Sometimes he'd get all riled up. He'd get impatient and he'd do things that would remind you of a kid scratching chicken pox. You couldn't tell him he was going to end up with pockmarks. You couldn't say a word. You just listened. Jimmy

Frank Sinatra behaved himself around Russell Bufalino. One night at the 500 Club in Atlantic City I heard Russell tell Sinatra: "Sit down or I'll rip your tongue out and stick it up your ass." If he had a drink in him Sinatra was an asshole. He'd put on a gorilla suit when he got drunk. He'd go to fight some guy knowing somebody would stop it. He was a bad drinker. Me, if I drink, I want to sing and dance. I guess he figured he was already a singer and a dancer.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

What we do flows from who we are.

Man's habits change more rapidly than his instincts.

As market expert Jason Zweig puts it, "If we shopped for stocks the way we shop for socks, we'd be better off." We are wrong when we feel good about stocks having gone up, and we are wrong when we feel bad about stocks having gone down.

It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

The cover letter is seen by our actions. (La lettre de motivation se voit par nos actions)"

When a dog mews, it's because he eats him (Si le chien miaule, c'est qu'il le mange)

I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys, and beef-faced boys.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.