Quotes About Behavior

These are things we all have to grapple with. A five-year-old has much to learn. When people are annoying, it feels good to push them but we mustn't. Even though it's often pleasant to shout, others are trying to concentrate. Though we'd always like to be first, sometimes it's someone else's turn. And when we behave in a manner other people don't expect, there will be consequences

Description of reading Lord of the Flies for school: It is only 208 pages, I have already read it, and it is not very interesting. It is by William Golding who won an award for showing that boys are mean and badly behaved, even somewhere nice like the beach. This seems like something anyone in the entire world who has ever met a boy could tell you, but they gave William Golding a Nobel Prize for it.

To comprehend the interactions between Homo sapiens and the vast and diverse microbial world, perspectives must be forged that meld such disparate fields as medicine, environmentalism, public health, basic ecology, primate biology, human behavior, economic development, cultural anthropology, human rights law, entomology, parasitology, virology, bacteriology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology.

Believing is essential when changing any behavior

Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman

more modern version of the hysteria complex is called Mass Psychogenic Illness, or MPI, which is defined as the contagious spread of behavior within a group of individuals where one person serves as the catalyst or "starter" and the others imitate the behavior.

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.

The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.

Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

Exceptions are dangerous, Mr. Clay. Give them a foothold and they turn into habits.

It seems that many people who are deficient in character have an overabundance of charm. I

Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.

I'm always amazed when adults say that children "just did that to get attention". Naturally children who need attention will do all kinds of things to get it. Why not just give it to them?

A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

The most effective strategies do not depend solely on violence—though this can play an instrumental role, by demonstrating superiority as much as expressing aggression—but benefit instead from the ability to forge coalitions. Little in the rest of this book will suggest that this list should be expanded. The elements of strategic behavior have not changed, only the complexity of the situations in which they must be applied.

Deception also turned out to be a vital strategic quality. It involved deliberately sending untrue signals with a view to changing another's behavior.

Premio Nobel de Economía de 2005, «por haber ampliado nuestros conocimientos sobre el conflicto y la cooperación a través de la gamificación analítica».

You can demand courtesy but you have to earn respect.

You must learn to respect," Papa said. But I do not respect her," I said. Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect.