Quotes About Behavior

The microscopic pieces were perfectly clear; the macroscopic behavior remained a mystery. The tradition of looking at systems locally—isolating the mechanisms and then adding them together—was beginning to break down.

Scientists marching under Newton's banner actually waved another flag that said something like this: Given an approximate knowledge of a system's initial conditions and an understanding of natural law, one can calculate the approximate behavior of the system. This assumption lay at the philosophical heart of science.

find myself suddenly in the world and I recognize that I have one right alone: That of demanding human behavior from the other. One duty alone: That of not renouncing my freedom through my choices.18

A biscuit eater is an ornery dog. He won't hunt anything except his own biscuits. And he'll suck eggs and steal chickens and run coons and jump rabbits. To a bird dog man, a biscuit eater is the lowest form of animal life. Strangers in Mississippi often are puzzled by the expression until natives, who usually eat biscuits instead of light bread, explain that a biscuit eater is a no 'count hound that isn't good for anything except to hunt his meat and biscuits.

Just because a person is capable of wickedness, doesn't mean they will act upon it.

The nice thing about getting old is that you can be as grouchy as you want, everyone expects it!

Some people never go crazy. BEWARE You may end up working with them.

Asking for forgiveness is humiliating and doesn't fix anything. The solution is not to ask for forgiveness, but to avoid the outbursts that make excuses mandatory.

From this point on I'm going to treat people exactly how they treat me. Some should be glad. Others should be scared.

My attitude to you depends on you and my effort I put in is just a reaction to yours! I'll treat you how you treat me, it's as simple as that.

We aren't born good or bad. Maybe we're born with tendencies either way, but its the way we live your life that matters.

A word of good advice. "It's not wise to shit where you eat.

The true measure of a person is how they treat you when others are not looking.

Mom says... "Don't think I won't come back there and spank your ass.

When someone does a weird thing, or two weird things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything the do is weird, then you begin to wonder.

When someone does a weird thing, or two weird things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything they do is weird, then you begin to wonder.

I have.... "Asshole Proximity Disorder

Let your actions be your words.

Hold, Sir, I say! None of your profanity before me. If I do evil to anyone on such occasions, it is because he will have it so; therefore, the evil is not of my doing.

Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble.

Shame ain't a spontaneous emotion; shame is an induced emotion.

And we all like a marriedann because she is mercenary. Though the length of the land lies under liquidation. … Then as she is on her behaviorite job of quaintance bandyfruting for firstlings and taking her tithe… in swishwish satins and taffetafe tights…

She never blows her nose. A form of speech: the lesser for the greater.

People were not what they said. They were not what they thought. They were not what they promised. People were what they did. When the final tally was done, nothing else mattered.