Quotes About Behavior

Whatever is true about your heart will show up in your actions.

There are no true monsters, only some people [...] who with regularity acted like a monster. It's still episodic. [...] It never works when you leave out even a small part of the picture.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

EMOTIONALLY UNHEALTHY PEOPLE ARE LIKE HEAT-SEEKING MISSILES. THEY HAVE A WAY OF FINDING EACH OTHER.

No animal will accept the justice of being punished for following its instincts. (90)

Don't throw tantrums; that's unprofessional.

Dolphins, I learned from J. Worden of the Harvard Child Bereavement Study at Massachusetts General Hospital, had been observed refusing to eat after the death of a mate. Geese had been observed reacting to such a death by flying and calling, searching until they themselves became disoriented and lost.

I can be nice on occasion, Mike said.

Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous.

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

Men don't traipse. We... Swagger

There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.

the part of the brain, physiologically, that allows us to blame everything on people we do not really know is the same part of the brain that allows us to have compassion for strangers

I have learned that as soon as you introduce controls on human behavior, you lose the game, particularly when those controls are at odds with the work.

She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now.

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.

I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room.

I'm sure that my parents' behavior has entered my work, I'm sorry to say. I don't think you need to have a difficult childhood to be funny, but it helps.

My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis.

Treat me with kindness and respect & I will rock your world ,treat me like a stupid game and I will show you how it is played

Keep yourselves far from envy; because it eats up and takes away good actions, like a fire eats up and burns wood.

The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.