Quotes About Behavior

I loathe litterbugs and Im pretty vocal if I see someone do it.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

My idea with '4 Degrees' was to articulate, for a minute, not my ideal vision of how I wanted to perceive my relationship to nature but the reality. If I could give a voice to my behavior, what would that voice be? Taking planes, enjoying first-world fossil fuel, an addict of first-world comfort.

Once you get a reputation for emotional volatility, it can take years of model behavior to change how others see you.

While I take no pleasure in others' misfortunes, we've historically made most of our profits from other investors behaving in a panicked and irrational fashion and selling us certain stocks at prices far below their intrinsic value. More volatility equals cheaper stocks, which equals higher returns.

After preliminary work by a number of other distinguished mathematicians and economists, game theory as a systematic theory started with von Neumann and Morgenstern's book, 'Theory of Games and Economic Behavior,' published in 1944.

During my time as a political strategist, one of the most vexing problems was figuring out why so many people vote against their perceived interests.

People vote based on emotion. Period.

Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.

Political science has long tried to tackle a fundamental question of voter behavior: Do voters choose politicians because those politicians hold views that they like, or do voters choose policy positions because the politicians they like say those positions are correct?

Some people are cool, some are cold. Many are down to earth, while a select few are divas.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

Selfish, arrogant people drive me crazy.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

Some say I'm selfish. My approach is the complete opposite of selfishness.

Sensitivity training is a fine idea but isn't taken seriously by those who need it most.

Turing was uncompromisingly honest. As soon as he didn't think you were interesting or smart, he'd just turn around and walk away, even if you were in the middle of a sentence.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

The mind shapes the body, and the body shapes the mind.

I always look at everyone when we're on the street and think, 'We're like sheep or ants.'

The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

Everywhere I go, I buy something. I probably have an issue with shopping.

To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.

I've watched parents sometimes on the touchlines at youth games, and they are screaming and shouting, which is not the way to go.