Quotes About Behavior

You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout, I'm telling you why, Cause Santa Clause might put a cap in your ass.

I always suspected the perpetrators of both good and evil probably would have behaved the same way, God or no God.

Teach your kids by modeling what you claim to believe.

You do what you do because of what you think of you

To train is to commit to developing strategic habits that equip you to do the right thing in the moment.

He didn't sound particularly drunk, but Bob's a professional, so you never can tell.

He was a drunkard.

Anarchy does not simply mean no laws, it means no need for laws. Anarchy requires individuals to behave responsibly. When individuals can live in peace without authorities to compel or punish them, when people have enough courage and sense to speak honestly and equally with each other, then and only then, will anarchy be possible.

Bolt actions speak louder than words.

Because of our cultural conditioning, we not only think our actions are normal, the way everyone behaves; we also think what we do is right, the way everyone should behave. We therefore regard any behavior that is different from ours as wrong. Naturally, this puts cultural incidents into a whole new light.

There are white people who know how to act politely to blacks, but deep down you know they're uncomfortable. They're worse, more dangerous than those who speak their minds, because they don't know what they're capable of.

The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments.

We must nurture our capacity for prayers of submission. If we remain stuck only in prayers of avoidance, we are vulnerable to believing that avoiding loss is the only acceptable outcome. When we ask for only one thing, we are essentially insisting that it is the only acceptable thing. This insistence leaves us highly vulnerable to a range of Satan's temptations. We are vulnerable to engaging in all sorts of problematic behavior.

Although I most often see men shoving the energies of their uncomfortable emotions into women's overly receptive energetic boundary, it can just as easily happen the other way around. People can also act out this pattern with their same-sex partners, their friends, or their children. Anyone is capable of pushing away negative emotional energies, and anyone with permeable or gaping energy boundaries is susceptible to absorbing them.

People might not change but their incentives could.

If you want to predict a person's behavior, identify his or her incentives. Leo

That was a coping mechanism that psychopaths often used. They didn't feel the way normal individuals did, so they just mimicked the behavior. They acted as if they got angry, as if they were hurt, as if they loved. But it was all just acting.

She seems to think being cryptic is some kind of substitute for having a decent personality.

You can yell on a playground, but not during dinner.

Social scientists and psychologists are conducting research studies that clearly show that when we behave and act as if we are happy, confident, healthy or in love, we become happy, confident, healthy and in love.

Man [as Bill often said] is a virus in shoes.

People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

There are about forty-nine masochists to one sadist.

We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises.