Quotes About Behavior

I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time.

I constantly ask why one of my kids has the tantrums that he does, and it's not because he sees videos of me acting like that onstage but because we're bound by blood.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.

Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.

Viewed as a geometric figure, the ant's path is irregular, complex, and hard to describe.

Here are a few things I've learned from Albert -- 1. Any food is fair game until it is actually swallowed by someone else. 2. Take a nap whenever you can. 3. Don't bark unless it's important. 4. Chasing one's tail is sometimes unavoidable.

The perfume works," she insisted. "Not only did you respond to it, but Annabelle tried it on her husband—and she swears that he kept her up all night as a result." "Sweetheart," Marcus said wryly, "Hunt has behaved like a boar in rut around Annabelle since the first day they met. It's typical behavior for him, where she is concerned.

You may put a man in a cravat, teach him manners, and make him attend a soiree, but hardly any of us are truly civilized.

With that obdurate set of his jaw, he looked exactly like the arrogant ass he had been the first time they'd met.

You, sir, are a moral abyss.' Rather than look shamed, he actually grinned at the remark. 'And you, my lady, are a prude.

There are two kinds of womanizers. Those who love women too much and those who hate them.

While you may be able to say with precision what the average man will do, "you can never foretell what any one man will do.

I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it's practice for sociopaths.

one of the true tests to tell if a man's been raised right and is a gentleman is whether he stands when a lady enters the room—or

One simple exercise you can do is spend an hour alone at your desk and write out all of your habits. Use one side of the paper for what you consider to be good habits, and the other side for what you consider to be bad habits.

Well, you know, sometimes we're hardest on the people we know we can count on not to ditch us no matter how lousy we act.

It feels like people will poke a spear in anyplace they can draw blood these days. It wasn't that way when I was growing up. Even in politics, people had some…" I search for the word, and the best thing I can come up with is "decency.

Ever'body got a reason for what they do. You eat off somebody else's plate, drink a their cup, could be, you'd be that same way.

Are you a female dog?" "What?" Massie asked. "Why?" "Because you are acting like a real bitch!