Quotes About Behavior

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

It had only recently been discovered that dolphins could recognize themselves in a mirror, the only other animal besides a chimp to have such self-awareness.

Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you." [ Love's Last Shift ]

You can change the law but you can't change people and how they treat each other.

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

Scientists have located the gene that causes alcoholism. They found it at a party talking too loudly.

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.

Some people will always be animals, while the others want to be... people.

The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.

Etiquette, Seward had once told Jamison, was all that mattered. Ideologies waxed and waned, religions developed and eroded, political parties rose and fell from power. Only courtesy remained one of the few things valued by all civilized men.

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

Finally, we notice how already having the Core State naturally transforms the original behavior we didn't like.

Cross-gender behaviour is seen as less acceptable in boys than it is in girls: unlike the term 'tomboy' there is nothing positive implied by its male counterpart, the 'sissy'.

The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim "fake it till you make it" gains empirical support.

Nessuno è di fronte alle donne più arrogante, aggressivo e sdegnoso dell'uomo malsicuro della propria virilità

Fifthly, The schools of learning and religion are so corrupted, as (besides the unsupportable charge of education) most children, even the best, wittiest, and of the fairest hopes, are perverted, corrupted, and utterly overthrown, by the multitude of evil examples and licentious behaviours in these seminaries.

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.

You can't tell young people what you think of their behaviour if you haven't known them since they were toddlers, and even then you keep a close eye on your tongue. Knives and guns are commonplace, and there are even local stories of people being shot for asking the young not to smoke in a public space. So

It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural.

our beliefs invariably drive our decision making.

Technologist Kevin Kelly suggests, "If a thousand lines of letters in UNIX qualifies as a technology, . . . then a thousand lines of letters in English (Hamlet) must qualify as well. They both can change our behavior, alter the course of events, or enable future inventions. A Shakespeare sonnet and a Bach fugue, then, are in the same category as Google's search engine and the iPod. They are something useful produced by a mind.