Quotes About Behavior

wanted to let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked out a solution. "The smell and behavior wasn't an issue

One purpose of these notebooks was to record interesting scenes, especially those involving people and emotions. "As you go about town," he wrote in one of them, "constantly observe, note, and consider the circumstances and behavior of men as they talk and quarrel, or laugh, or come to blows."1 For that purpose, he kept a small notebook hanging from his belt.

If he was displeased, he might scream and get hopping mad and use expletives, but he wouldn't do it in a way that would totally destroy the person he was talking to. It was just his way to get the person to do a better job.

One purpose of these notebooks was to record interesting scenes, especially those involving people and emotions. "As you go about town," he wrote in one of them, "constantly observe, note, and consider the circumstances and behavior of men as they talk and quarrel, or laugh, or come to blows."1 For that purpose, he kept a small notebook hanging from his belt. According to the poet Giovanni Battista Giraldi, whose father knew Leonardo:

It was as if something in the animal's body and in its brain had been engineered to work together instantly rather than being learned.

There's an old Hindu saying that goes, 'In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

Einstein had a mild form of echolalia, causing him to repeat phrases to himself, two or three times, especially if they amused him.

Jobs could be charming to people he hated just as easily as he could be insulting to people he liked.

What drives people to kill and maim each other so savagely?" Einstein asked. "I think it is the sexual character of the male that leads to such wild explosions.

We cannot begin to discover the mind as long as we ignore the irrational and subterranean springs of behaviour as well as thought.

Meanness on request isn't meanness at all, but kindness carried too far.

The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

Why the others didn't is part of the mystery why trained men in identical situations should react so differently.

I like the rules; following them proves to me that I'm a civilized man.

A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn. Obviously

he is not fit to visit strange countries, who cannot rule his tongue before his own countrymen

Temperament is also important. Independent thinking, emotional stability, and a keen understanding of both human and institutional behavior is vital to long-term investment success.

Temperament is also important. Independent thinking, emotional stability, and a keen understanding of both human and institutional behavior is vital to long-term investment success. I've seen a lot of very smart people who have lacked these virtues.

The less the prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we must conduct our own.

Good behavior by each party begets good behavior in return.

A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line: If it's clear to them that shareholders' interests are paramount to him, they will, with few exceptions, also embrace that way of thinking.

The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

God gave Moses the Ten Commandments: rules of behavior that were supposed to make people moral. Ten was too much to remember. Jesus knew this, He brought them down to two: Love God and Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself. Still too much to remember, if the last 2000 years is an indicator.

Let us remember that each time people treat us in an ill manner, speak evil of us, or make unreasonable demands of us, they are giving us opportunity to react as Christians.