Quotes About Behavior

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.

It's insanely difficult for people to accept the extent to which we are biological organisms without agency.

From spending my decades thinking about behavior and the biological influences on it, I'm convinced by now free will is what we call the biology that hasn't been discovered yet. It's just another way of stating that we're biological organisms determined by the physical laws of the universe.

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

One knows, of course, that Donald Trump behaves differently from the leaders of other countries, especially the leaders of other Western democracies.

Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play with my feet and other kids' feet, and that was his thing.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

I became the master of playing the straight bat - I would go to bars with the boys, I would always be the one to start a fight, to be outrageous and drink the most. I even went to the extreme of marrying the perfect woman for me.

The Internet foments outrageous behavior in part because it is a 'gray area' for social interactions.

I'm not sure anything makes you an outright good person or bad person - that we're all capable of doing good or bad things. And if you want to know how much good you can do, and how much hurt you can do, just ask somebody you love.

Whatever you are inside, the good and bad will manifest in the outside world. It will come out in some way. It will come out in your work. It will come out in words. It will come out.

The implications of likability are long-lasting and serious. Women adjust their behavior to be likable and as a result have less power in the world. And this desire to be liked and accepted goes beyond the boardroom - it's an issue that comes up for women in their personal lives as well, especially as they become more opinionated and outspoken.

The MeToo movement has made everyone more professional. The trashy aspects of filmmaking are now eliminated. There is certainly fear and caution among those men who think they can get away with any behaviour. At the same time, we have to be careful about not overdoing the enthusiasm of the MeToo movement.

I can't show false humility, nor be overly proud and ostentatious.

If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt bankers' own long-term interests and the economy in general.