Quotes About Behavior

When we behave badly, it is usually because we were put in an unhappy situation. Circumstance has conspired against us. Really, I had no choice. When others do wrong, it is because of their character flaws.

with a bias toward individualism that affects our conceptualization of the social. Smelser (1997: 29) says: "We live in the Western cultural tradition, which has exploited the cultural values of individualism. As children of that tradition, we are most comfortable taking the individual person as the starting point of analysis. Put another way, that cultural tradition 'tilts' us toward assuming that the natural unit for the behavioral and social sciences is the individual.

How a company is perceived, Bezos concluded, largely came down to how it behaved, and how its behaviors compared with those of its direct competitors. "Rudeness is not cool," he warned his colleagues. "Defeating tiny guys is not cool," he added. "Polite is cool," he argued, "defeating bigger, unsympathetic guys is cool.

During our first month in the flat, however, Mr Puri was on his best behaviour. Apart from twice proposing marriage to my wife, he behaved with perfect decorum.

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

I realised that a nigger is not a person so much as a form of behavior.

I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone. That was when I realised that a nigger is not a person so much as a form of behavior; a sort of obverse reflection of the white people he lives among.

If you are going to write, write about human nature. That is the only thing that doesn't date.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a form of behavior.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

where would Christianity be today if Jesus had been given ten to twenty with time off for good behavior

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places, that had once belonged to cigarettes, now belonged to phones.

Are we savages or what?

I got this to say. you are acting like a crowd of kids.

I got this to say. You're acting like a crowd of kids.

man produces evil as a bee produces honey

I understand completely what you are trying to do, the Sicilian said finally, and I want it quite clear that I resent your behavior. You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.

Wherein you reprove another be unblamable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precept.

There was once a common understanding in our society among men that there are standards of action and behavior to which men should hold themselves. Men, the code dictates, among other things, keep their word, whether in writing or not, men do not take advantage of women, men support their children, and men watch their language, especially around women and children. The code of men is fading.

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

Psychology is the science of mental life