Quotes About Behavior

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.

Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.

The disciples of Jesus "found themselves thinking that if divine goodness were to manifest itself in human form, this (he) is how it would behave… he invited people to see differently instead of telling them what to do or believe…he located the authority of his teaching in his hearer's hearts, not in himself or God-as-removed.

Real golfers, no matter what the provocation, never strike a caddie with the driver. The sand wedge is far more effective.

People look at you a certain way and somehow you wind up being that way.

You can choose to believe whatever you wish; just remember that your beliefs drive your behavior.

When the results of your behavior meet your needs over time, you experience inner peace.

The principle on the Belief Window has to change first or the behavior will never change.

Unless the belief changes, the behavior will not change.

The Japanese have an expression for human relations that are sticky with the mutual obligations and dependencies of the collective life. They use the English word "wet." Traditional Japanese family relations are "wet." Yakuza gangs are "wet." Behavior that is more detached, more individualistic, often associated with a Western way of life, is "dry." Terayama Shuji was "dry." Kara was most definitely "wet.

in reference to Mothers refusal to go to a party] "I'm past being humiliated by you in public, having to watch your drunken foolishness and everybody looking on

Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?

We now self-righteously condemn the sexually abusive male. Feminist critics find a lot of hypocrisy in this stance. It allows us to conceal from ourselves that the man's behavior is only an extreme form of a more commonplace aggression toward women and children that is condoned and even encouraged, both in popular media and within the economic power structure.

Generalizations about the mentalities and behaviour of millions of Germans in the Nazi era are bound to be of limited application – apart, perhaps, from the generalization that, for the great mass of the population, the figurative colours to look for are less likely to be stark black and white than varying and chequered shades of grey.

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

One more Socially Responsible cheep out of you, doggy, and it's back in the workbag for the rest of the afternoon.

I have become fixed in my customary vices.

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions

Bad Men Do What Good Men

Bad-mouthing everyone else is such a simple option.

Haosul nu este întâmpl?tor: el este o comportare aparent întâmpl?toare, rezultând din reguli foarte precise. Haosul este o form? criptic? de ordine.

technologies (reflecting new and more complex behaviors) do not tend to be associated with the appearance of new kinds of hominid. It was old kinds of hominid that started to do new things, even though those new things always seem to indicate a step up in cognitive complexity.