Quotes About Behavior

Growing up, there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. And their parents were fine. Some people are just born with bad wiring.

People lie when they get upset.

Sometimes people do things because they are sad or because they are upset or were hurt by other people.

It's one thing to boo, but to actually pelt someone down below because you're upset a sporting event went a certain way is just so bizarre to me.

I don't know of anybody not trying on offense when they're upset.

'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.

I've raised my boys the old-fashioned way, with spankings, sending them upstairs if they misbehave at parties, the works. I believe discipline is the proof of love.

The whole art of flirting has simply disappeared. This probably will do further damage. If we're going to become so uptight that we can't say nice things to each other, then we've had it!

The British tend to be uptight; they shy away from being tactile.

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

The society of women is the foundation of good manners.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

If the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.

Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

People are not born bastards. They have to work at it.

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.

People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.

I don't necessarily agree that all animals are unpredictable. The more you know about an animal, the more you can work with it safely.