Quotes About Behavior

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

all the members of society have a direct interest in the manners of each of its individuals, because each one is a radiating point, the center of a circle which he fills with pleasure or annoyance, not only for those who voluntarily enter it but for those, who, in the promiscuous movements of society, are caught within its circumference.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.

S? nu d?m deci vina pe politicieni: r?ul începe cu noi, cei care distrugem natura, murd?rim str?zile, facem irespirabile blocurile, transform?m în haznale spa?iile publice ?i ne umilim cu sete ?i sadism semenii. R?ul începe de la scara blocului.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

There's a message in the way a person treats you. Hovsep Kazezian www.Hkazezian.com

There are no righteous societies; there are simply different degrees of depravity. To

You don't have to be crazy to act crazy. You just have to know what crazy people act like. And I had plenty of experience watching crazy people.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

The less a person understands his own feelings, the more he will fall prey to them. The less a person understands the feelings, the responses, and the behavior of others, the more likely he will interact inappropriately with them and therefore fail to secure his proper place in the world.

The "four 'F's'" of animal behavior—fleeing, fighting, feeding, and…reproducing—all depend on acquiring information and

There's only one way to describe most investors: trend followers.

It's worth noting that the assumption that something can't happen has the potential to make it happen, since people who believe it can't happen will engage in risky behaviour, and thus alter the environment.

Risk arises as investor behaviour alters the market. Investors bid up assets, accelerating into the present appreciation that otherwise would have occurred in the future, and thus lowering prospective returns. The ultimate irony lies in the fact that the reward for taking incremental risk shrinks as more people move to take it.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

All social groups groups make rules and attempt, at some times and under some circumstances, to enforce them. Social rules define situations and the kinds of behavior appropriate to them, specifying some actions as "right" and forbidding others as "wrong".

How leaders embody the values they espouse sets a tone, an expectation, that guides their employees' behaviors.

Behavior that looks religious but is devoid of genuine love is abhorrent to God. God loves an honest agnostic more than a religious hypocrite.

If a man is convinced that he is safe only as long as he uses his power to give others a sense of insecurity, then the measure of their security is in his hands. If security or insecurity is at the mercy of a single individual or group, then control of behavior becomes routine. All imperialism functions in this way. Subject peoples are held under control by this device.

Most of the accepted social behavior-patterns assume segregation to be normal—if normal, then correct, if correct, then moral; if moral, then religious. Religion is thus made a defender and guarantor of the presumptions.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.

Reason is not some external power which dictates how we should behave, but an internal power, integral to who we are ... Reason does not command that we love anyone. Nonetheless, reason is vital in determining whom we love and why we love them.