Quotes About Behavior

Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.

Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.

I think people can be very nice and charming without being decent human beings.

You know, if you're going to take me aside when I'm behaving badly, I may start behaving worse. Just to get some attention from you." His eyes briefly catch the light and glow gray-green for a moment. "Possibly even some admiration.

The surest test of discipline is it's absence.

These are people whose names are lost to history, but when you have that kind of encounter, somehow you get a whole new perspective on what's of value and how to behave in the face of oppression, and the strength that any single person or a group of people can bring with their own will.

Jessy should control the whole process, from the determination of the stressor and the identification of the problem behavior, to the choice of the reward, taken from her treasury of Enthusiasms.

learned to imitate. The much-maligned techniques of behavior modification — rewards and more rarely penalties — eventually provided her adequate motivation. Characteristically, the reinforcers were not food or praise but numbers, a rising tally on a golf counter. Every new skill made life easier for us and richer for her, as her repertoire of activities expanded.

Friendliness is learned among friends and social behavior in society.

My father didn't tell me how to live he lived, and let me watch him do it.

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Would it be simplistic to think the moral problem with regards to others consists in behaving as one ought to, and the moral problem with regards to oneself is managing to feel what one ought to?

The difference between the insane and the not-insane person is that the latter doesn't do or say the things he thinks.

Desperation can do strange things to people. Even those we love.

It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating -- after all, they are women -- but they cannot be curmudgeons.

The strict separation of theory and data, the "brute fact" idea; the effort to create a formal vocabulary of analysis purged of all subjective reference, the "ideal language" idea; and the claim to moral neutrality and the Olympian view, the "Go?s truth" idea - none of these can prosper when explanation comes to be regarded as a matter of connecting action to its sense rather than behavior to its determinants.

Why do politicians have one more brain cell than horses do?" Riddles were her favorites, he guessed. He said that he didn't know why. "So they won't shit on the street during parades." He

IF YOU WOULD HAVE A MAN STAY AS HE IS, THEN TREAT HIM AS HE IS. IF YOU WOULD HAVE A MAN CHANGE, THEN TREAT HIM AS THE PERSON YOU WOULD WANT HIM TO BECOME.

Children will copy everything from adults by example.

Everyone wants to be a good example to everybody. If you can't be one, at least try not to be a disgrace to humanity.

Many people are misquoted not by the language that they speak, but by the language of their behaviors that protrude their personalities.

The human race is not defined by the language that we speak, but by the actions that come from the human mind.

Thinking like human is the easy part. Acting and living like human is the hard part.